The findings suggest that the AML Behavior Rating Scale is a promising mass screening device for the identification of children who are vulnerable to school failure. (Author)

Reprints Thorndike's classic article which appeared in The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. VIII, No. 6, June 1917, pp. 323-32. (VJ)

This follow-up study reports the failure-promotion experience of Kentucky first-graders of 1968-69 and relates their academic success or failure to their ages of entering first grade. The rate of first grade repeaters in Kentucky is disappointingly high and a youngster who attempts first grade twice is not substantially better off than he was the…

A look at the clinical work of a Student Health physician as it affects dropouts. (IR)

Suggests that an eclectic approach to teaching (selecting materials, methods, and styles to fit particular situations) will succeed in providing the best possible learning environments for children. Characteristics which identify eclectic instruction, including diagnostic teaching, oral reading, and individualized choices of materials, methods,…

Presents the following steps for the clinician to follow in determining consequential factors of reading disability: (1) identification, (2) assumption and rejection or acceptance, (3) discovery and explanation, and (4) prediction and verification. (CM)

A model of the manner in which environmental variations affect the life chances of specialist and generalist organizations was applied to a sample of restaurant organizations in 18 California cities. One finding was that specialist organizations are favored in fine-grained environments (i.e., when sales variations are nonseasonal). (Author/RM)

Identifies factors mental health executives (N=131) see as important barriers to their planning efforts. These executives can best be aided in their planning by actions which will clarify planning domains, insure that appropriate power and authority is vested in the executive, and emphasize planning efforts in innovative areas. (Author/JAC)

Examined relationships among self-regulatory behaviors, perceptions of social reinforcement from significant persons, and problem-solving performance of Black adolescents (N=33). Components of self-regulatory processes--self-reinforcement, self-evaluation, and self-monitoring--were interrelated highly. Perceptions of neither positive nor negative…