This research project compared teacher attitude using
the Pupil Control Ideology Form with student attitude using
the Arlin-Hills Student Attitude Survey. P.C.I. Forms
were collected from 834 teachers from 95 elementary Christian
schools in several states. A total of 1074 student
attitude surveys were collected from Christian school students
in...
This exploratory study was undertaken to determine the combined
effects which two rather unique approaches in the fields of counseling
and psychotherapy might have on the behavior and academic achievement
of ten selected deviant high school students. These approaches have
been termed the 1) self-consistency approach to behavior change and...
This study was designed to investigate whether the conservation of substance, weight, continuous quantity, discontinuous quantity, number, area, distance, length, and two-dimensional space are developed in sequence in the acquisition of conservation operations. More specifically, the purposes of the study are two-fold: (1) To assess the sequence and rate of...
Maintenance of one's self and one's people in a free
society requires educational, cultural, and economic
literacy. This is fully as imperative in a democracy as the
maintenance of ignorance of slaves is required in an
oppressive society. The requisite skills needed both to
sustain one's self and become a...
School districts across the nation are engaged in an ongoing attempt to bring about
change. Educational researchers strive to initiate change in the classroom with students as
well as the teachers of these students.
The evaluation of a change effort is a key element in any implementation model; as
the...
Purpose
The study was designed to test the effectiveness of a counselor
training experience which used pre-recorded client statements as the
instructional medium. The principal objective of instruction was to
teach counselor trainees to differentiate between the affective and
cognitive content of client statements and to respond in ways which...
This research project is an historical case study of the conflict
which evolved from the deliberations and subsequent implementation
of bilingual education in Central School District 13J, Independence,
Oregon. The time period under consideration spans 35 months,
beginning in August 1974, when district officials first proposed bilingual
education, and ending...
The purpose of this study was to determine the competencies necessary to conduct educational research in the
Venezuelan context; to determine if differences exist
among Venezuelan educators in responding to the questionnaire; to determine which clusters of skills and under
standings are relevant to an educational research master's
degree; to...
The topic of this study is the cultural impact of the computer in a school. "Impact" is 'defined as the cultural consequences of intended and unintended learning that occur when computers are used in the school. The major theoretical orientations of the work include the concepts of manifest and latent...
The focus of this study was to identify persistent
problems in the developmental history of the American
Department of Defense dependents schools in Okinawa, Japan.
The period of time covered was from 1946 through 1978.
The study includes historical descriptions of curriculum
development, obtaining and maintaining school facilities,
and the...