A committee was formed to explore ways of helping school districts develop more effective programs for disruptive students. Committee findings revealed the need for the development of local guidelines to satisfy each school district's needs and for reliable feedback. Therefore, this report reflects efforts to sample various local approaches to the…

This study is concerned with what happens when students bring conventional assumptions about education to an unconventional alternative school. By field observation and interview, the author examined how alternative schools change the conventional patterns of hierarchy, formality, and the press to achieve; the assumptions students hold about the…

Several sampling procedures for collecting observational data on student activities were studied in an effort to determine their relative efficiency. The setting was a fifth grade Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) mathematics class of thirty-three pupils. A criterion measure was obtained by cumulating the measurements obtained on the…

There is little theory of research concerning the impact of father absence on females. The present study compared father-absent and father-present preadolescent girls on the basis of selected measures of peer relationships, dating practices, source of sex information, family and peer relationships, and sexual experience. The sample consisted of 95…

This study was designed primarily to evaluate the effectiveness of three multi-age classes at Carnarvon School, Vancouver, B.C. (each class having an age range of three years: ages 6-8, 7-9, 9-11) in developing children's self-concepts and attitudes toward school. No significant difference was found between the multi-age and regular classes in…

The Work Experience Career Exploration Program (WECEP) is a prevocational exploratory program designed for educationally disadvantaged ninth grade students, emphasizing the cultivation of individual talents, development of social skills, and the recognition of the student as an individual with social and economic worth. In order to evaluate WECEP,…

The guidelines and codes in this booklet were written to assist teachers and administrators strengthen their positions in times of legal and social confusion and in the face of challenges to administrative and staff authority. Model codes are provided for student (1) assembly, (2) dress and grooming, (3) motor vehicles, (4) search and seizure, (5)…

School psychologists (13) representing the 6 counties served by the Northern Indian California Education Project (Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act) attended a workshop on January 14, 1972, at Humboldt State College. Also attending were Humboldt State personnel from the fields of education and psychology. The workshop was intended…

The Quality Assurance Model for Process Evaluation has been developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory. It provides educational administrators several alternative techniques for maximizing desired terminal behaviors. By working with project directors, the evaluator helps to assist the program's implementation, providing…

Thirty children, 7.5 to 8.5 years, in two classrooms in a Catholic school trying to implement an informal curriculum were studied. The classrooms were not "exemplary"; The children had lower-middle-class origins. Each child was observed under free-choice conditions for approximately 80-90 minutes over a 3-month period. Two-minute narrative records…

This paper represents a report of a year-long case study of the implementation of a token economy in an entire elementary school. The effort was intended to provide teachers with an alternative to corporal punishment as a form of school discipline. In this report, both the successful and unsuccessful procedures are described in chronological…

This code of student conduct prescribes rules, procedures, rights and responsibilities governing non-academic relationships, academic relationships, and student records for students in the Kentucky system of community colleges. Part I of this code, concerning non-academic relationships, describes the structure, function, role, and scope of…

The 1974 Maryland General Assembly charged the task force "to make an indepth study of the changes needed in the educational systems throughout the state to enable the schools to work effectively with the increasing percentage of youth who cannot function within regular school programs and to develop suitable alternative programs." This…

This bibliography updates a previous bibliography on campus judicial systems, student rights, student discipline, equal opportunity, and other legal issues related to college students. The bibliography is divided into five sections: Books, Monographs, & Reports; Papers, Addresses, and Bibliographies; Periodicals and Journals; Theses and…

A review of estimates of the incidence of emotional disturbance/problem behavior in school-aged children leads to the conclusion that schools should anticipate a need for alternative programming for the two-three percent of their students predicted to have recurrent or persistent problems in adjusting to school situations. (Author)