Describes a study which compared the responses of 820 British 15-year-olds to unfinished sentences about their images of the ideal person and their ultimate values. A comparison of responses shows that the second sentence caused reduced materialistic and fantasy responses, and increased references to family and friends. (AM)

The author provides a perspective on the current state of educational sociology in Great Britain and the United States. (DE)

Describes a study which examined how the race of a test administrator affected British students' sociometric ratings of friendship. Two groups of comprehensive school students, one supervised by a black examiner and one by a white, rated their degree of friendship to every other pupil in their school classes. (AM)

A sample of 460 17-year old students from six high schools in the south of England was analyzed to determine differences in associations between political party preference, social status, and socio-political attitudes. Findings indicated that there was a significant association between subjects' sex and political party preference and a negligible…

Compares the development and current status of art education and art education research in England and the United States. The author argues that, despite educators' claims about the value of affective and expressive education, art education in both countries has failed to achieve equal status with cognitively oriented studies in the curriculum.…

A cross-year group and longitudinal study was conducted to investigate the influence of race on friendship preferences of pupils in a multi-racial, secondary school in Britain. Results indicate that students were more friendly to classmates of the same sex, regardless of race, than to classmates of the same race but other sex. (Author/AM)

Describes a study which investigated how much teachers of children with severe learning disabilities alter their grammatical complexity, sentence length, and vocabulary to match the developmental level of their students. (AM)

Study results showed that (1) aboriginal and anglo-Australian adolescents have relatively positive autostereotypes (an autostereotype refers to the attributes that individuals assign to their own group), (2) aboriginal-Australian adolescents express quite favorable heterostereotypes toward anglo-Australians, and (3) anglo-Australian adolescents…

Describes a study which examined the differences in male and female performance on the British Certificate of Secondary Education biology examination. Findings indicated that boys performed better on multiple-choice items, while girls excelled on questions requiring verbal skills. (AM)

To build a profile of adolescent religious ideas and practices, an experiment investigated the extent that measures for attitudes toward religion and other people, religious behavior, compassionate behavior, religious thinking, and general intelligence function independently. These measures were also investigated with regard to the variables of…

Examines the relationship of study techniques and test-taking strategies to success on the "O" level of the British General Certificate of Education (GCE) examination. Findings showed that teachers and students felt that course reviews, including study of past examinations, was the best preparation. (AM)

Reports results of a study to examine the extent to which young English children volunteer prepositions in a simple but structured task of spatial description. Results show that children 3 to 7 years have an extensive and often inventive grasp of locative prepositions. (Author/KC)

Reports results of a study to determine the effect of educational maintenance allowances (EMA) on a student's staying in school. A substantial proportion of school-leavers indicated that they may have remained in school had an EMA been available. (KC)

An analysis of associations among children's intelligence, personality, perceptions of school environment, attitudes toward school, and self-concept is reported. The study used Bloom's theory of school learning which examines relationships among student characteristics, quality of instruction, and children's learning outcomes. (Author/KC)

Describes a study which examined English students' academic motivation and attitudes toward school during their first year of secondary education. Students completed sentences describing the best and worst aspects of school and the sources of their academic motivations. Findings showed students liked school and were motivated by future employment…