This study examined the relationships between teachers' self-assessment and their ratings by master teachers on key dimensions of proficiency as defined by Oregon's Continuing Teaching Licensure (CTL) requirements, and it explored differences between teacher behaviors and practices as a function of their teacher preparation programs. It also…

This study was undertaken to investigate the personal reading habits of scholars/activists in the field of Women's Studies (WS), determine the use pattern of documentary sources of information in WS, and identify various sources of information used by those engaged in research work, teaching or social action work in the field of WS in India. The…

This study developed a method to assess group process in a collaborative problem-solving situation. Participants were 32 fifth- and sixth-grade students. Students in seven collaborative groups worked on a two-part mathematics problem first individually, then in groups, and finally individually again. Groups engaging in behaviors that facilitated…

The discouraged worker effect hypothesizes that the experience of unsuccessful job search increases the propensity to withdraw from the labor force both immediately and in subsequent years. The statistical analyses done here suggest that the cost of unemployment does persist over time. (Author/DS)

Discusses the reciprocal relationship between food and behavior, dealing with the subject as a two-way system; two parts of the brain are particularly involved, the hypothalamus and the cerebral cortex. (Author/JM)

In this article, the author examined two extreme national cases within industrialized Europe of variation in the use of higher education as a personnel tool in the promotion of managers. Large, industrial companies in France and Britain were analyzed. (Author/RK)

Article discussed those students who were neither chronically ill nor truant but who were absent for reasons of anxiety due to his family relationship. (Author/RK)

The performance of black youths in educational and psychological testing situations cannot be assessed adequately without consideration of their particular attitudes, perceptions, and behavioral patterns. The authors discuss Blacks' attitudes toward whites, systems of time allocations, expressions of identity, attitudes toward learning,…

By relegating the culturally disadvantaged to a deviant status, social and professional institutions create differential perceptions and expectations and influence their self-evaluation, academic success, and career opportunities. The transformation of deviance into incompetency has also led to formally sanctioned methods of managing deviancy.…

An interaction process analysis was designed to record the task-oriented and social behavior of five learning disabled (LD) and five normal children in third grade classrooms and of only the LD children in sessions with the LD specialist. (MC)

Two experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between stress level and learned helplessness in human subjects. Experiment 1 subjected subjects to loud or moderate noise in order to induce differential stress. Experiment 2 was a partial replication of the first study using only loud noise. (Editor/RK)

Author believes that "every instructional sequence should have as its number one objective the intent to send the student away with approach tendencies toward the subject matter equal to or greater than those with which he arrived." (Author)

Describes animal behavior experiments that can be easily performed by secondary school students. The experiments illustrate territorial behavior, social order, and exploratory behavior in Mongolian gerbils. (JR)

Diverse data challenge and undermine the central assumptions of the traditional trait approach to personality. The implications for conceptions of individual differences and situations in the study of personality are examined. (Author)

Gives an outline for decision making at staff meetings to effect a behavior modification program. (GB)