Author found some gaps in the published findings on the London EPA project. (Editor/RK)

Children's naturalistic behaviors on a school bus were studied under two conditions: (1) riding to and from school with friendly, responsive adults; and (2) riding to and from school with adults with play materials and related activities to enhance the bus as a living-learning environment. (Editor)

Article provided some recommendations by the Hawaii Music Advisory Council on how to achieve a balanced music curriculum in Hawaiian schools. (Author/RK)

Article described the Executive High School Internship Program, an educational developmental experience which permits the qualified high school student to enter full time the top management level of the world of work in a very real rather than theoretical way. (Author/RK)

Reexamines the relationship between liberal learning and career preparation, discussing the contemporary problem of work and schooling, liberal learning as the development of moral competence, changes in the moral perspective, and the core of liberal learning. (Author/PG)

The family and the school are important socializing environments throughout adolescence. Using longitudinal data, this report examines the effects on students of varying degrees of participation in school and family life. Degrees of participation include the extent of participation in family decisions, the extent of restriction on activities by…

THE RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF FRESHMEN AT A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF ACCREDITED FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE FALL OF 1961, ARE REPORTED. TO COMPENSATE FOR THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF BIAS IN THE SAMPLE, THE DATA PRESENTED WAS DIFFERENTIALLY WEIGHTED TO REPRESENT THE DEFINED POPULATION OF THE CLASS OF 1965. INFORMATION ABOUT THE…

IDEAS INCLUDED ARE THE PRODUCTS OF AN INTENSIVE WORKSHOP HELD TO STUDY THE PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION OF EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED CHILDREN. A PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED STUDENT AND TO PROVIDE ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCES FOR ALL CHILDREN. IMPROVEMENT WAS SOUGHT IN THE SKILLS OF ABSTRACT THINKING, ORGANIZATION,…

Both as a method of measurement and as a theoretical hypothesis, syntactic maturity (SM) has profoundly affected thinking about verbal growth and ways to enhance that growth. On the positive side, SM is easy to use, requiring no elaborate training in grammar or statistics, and it is quantifiable providing an objective numerical index of…

Structural analysis is a systematic approach to curriculum development representing an attempt to organize terminal performance objectives for a unit of subject matter into a sequence of prerequisite competencies which must be satisfactorily mastered if successful terminal performance is to occur. The technique involves asking the question: "What…

The Developmental Career Guidance Project in the Detroit, Michigan schools sponsored a workshop which was designed to help youngsters improve their self-concepts by sensitizing teachers to the implications of various elements of self-theory. The teachers consequently had to go back to their own classrooms and creatively develop materials and…

The factors which determine the nature of a reading program are discussed in order to identify differences in reading instruction at the elementary and secondary levels. These factors are the developmental status of the learner, the demands of the curriculum, and the structure of the reading process. The differences in the developmental status of…

This brief personal planning program takes the form of a self-survey where the student answers questions to which there are no right or wrong answers. The first part is called Where am I Now?; the second is Where do I Want to Be?; the third is How do I Get to Where I Want to Be? The first part requires fairly objective responses, while the other…

The phases of daily living which are covered in this selected bibliography are alcohol and drug education, life styles, leisure activities, marraige and family relationships, politics, race relations, sex education, statistics/social indicators, and value concepts. Because the subject is so encompassing, no attempt has been made to be exhaustive.…

The 3 papers in this report cover different aspects of a longitudinal research program undertaken by the American Council on Education (ACE) to assess the impact of different college environments on student development. ACE plans to create a comprehensive file of data on students and institutions of higher education which will be updated annually.…