THESE TWO TESTS--"JULIUS CAESAR" AND "AUTOBIOGRAPHY"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR A 10TH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 817 AND ED 010 818. (MM)

In this study a method of teaching composition using individualized learning and peer grouping was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The model was used with 30 students in a tenth grade English class while a control group of 30 students received more traditional instruction. It was found that significantly greater gains were made by the…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-10. SUBJECT MATTER: Physical education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six color-coded units, one each for athletic skills and games, fitness testing and body mechanics, rhythmical activities, simple games and recreational activities, tumbling and apparatus, and swimming. It is mimeographed…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-10. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four color-coded sections, one for each grade. It is mimeographed and looseleaf-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: No objectives are mentioned. Activities listed in each section are organized into thematic…

Available evidence suggests that the curriculum theories of social studies professors are seldom the same as teachers' curriculum practices. Three 10th-grade U.S. history classrooms were studied to explore curriculum consonance: the relationships among the intended curriculum, what ensues in the classroom, and what students learn. Includes 36…

The data for this report were obtained from the Monitoring the Future study. Surveys from eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade respondents were used to examine adolescents' reasons for use, abstention, and quitting illicit drug use. Many reasons were found for drug use. Abstainers provided more reasons for their abstention than quitters gave for their…

The Novel Maturity Scale measures what secondary students are reading and determines the quality of material read. (RB)

Describes how a "problem" student bucks the system and wins. (RL)

The present study investigated the stability of response intransitivity in the method of paired comparisons over a two-year period. Intransitivity scores obtained from two administrations of the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire were correlated to determine stability. Results provided support for the linear relationship between the two measures.…

Exploring a technique for acquiring qualitative data from standardized instruments and using them in formative evaluation of new cirricula, this article discusses assets and limitations of the qualitative analysis technique as applied to a grade 10 science course. (JC)

Describes the development and application of a two-tier multiple choice diagnostic instrument to assess high school students' understanding of inorganic chemistry qualitative analysis. Shows that the Grade 10 students had difficulty understanding the reactions involved in the identification of cations and anions, for example, double decomposition…

Data from 245 male and 257 female adolescents who reported occupational aspirations and expectations in grades 8, 9, and 10 indicated that those who had significant aspiration-expectation discrepancies in one grade made significant changes in aspiration the following year. To the extent the changes were toward more realistic or accessible…

Examines the effect of repatterning representative passages from a tenth grade social studies text upon the average sophomore's comprehension. (RB)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of point of view on attitude in literary response. Subjects were tenth-grade students who read on grade level and who had successfully completed all average ninth-grade English requirements. Attitudes toward the study concept of mental illness were measured by a semantic differential.…

Two questions involving individualized literature programs in relation to 10th grade English classes of middle or heterogeneous ability are the focus of this study: (1) to what extent do teachers individualize the reading of literature; and (2) when reading individualization occurs, how do teachers operate such a program? Procedures in four…