This study sought to determine if the implementation of standards-based learning in high schools affects students' transition to learning in university courses. Surveys and interviews with 13 students who had graduated from high schools implementing standards-based learning and who had completed their first academic semester at a midsize, private,…

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to discover the influence of a student achievement program implemented at one large urban high school that employed extrinsic motivation to promote student achievement on state assessments. Using organismic integration theory as the theoretical framework, 19 randomly selected students participated…

Article explores several questions about the value of student evaluation of teachers, and describes one school's experience with student evaluation. (Editor)

This survey of graduating high school seniors revealed an important discrepancy between what students perceive as the most important function of high school (developing emotionally stable persons) and the functions they perceived that the high school does best (teaching the basic skills and imparting information). (Author/IRT)

The human factor, the authors say, makes the product of schools of education hard to evaluate. They describe, however, a successful teacher-training program that provides more actual classroom teaching activities much earlier than do most teacher education programs. (Editor)

Based on a recent study, this article asserts that training programs in classroom testing are constrained by classroom management demands (chiefly student resistance to higher order thinking tasks), the curriculum's overemphasis on broad content coverage, a lack of organizational commitment to strengthening the teaching-testing connection, and…

Describes evaluation by administrators, teachers, and students, from 20 diverse school systems, of experiential learning programs, and describes the educational practice being studied. (Author/MLF)

Although a student critique can be a hard pill to swallow, it can also offer valuable insights into course structure and teaching methods. Describes a principal's personal experience with students' evaluations. (Editor/RK)

The findings of a national study of student attitudes toward their school counseling programs are presented. (Author/MLF)

Article discussed a program wherein students from the inner city get the chance to visit a suburban school to realize how students there function. (RK)

Article focuses on a project developed jointly by the St. Louis Board of Education and the Legal Aid Society of the City and County of St. Louis to provide legal education at the high school level. (Editor)

A revealing study of junior high students shows that this group values teachers who are fair and know their subjects more than they value mere ethnic background. Three-fourths of the students surveyed indicated that ethnic extraction was not an important variable in teacher preference. (Editor)

Describes a bilingual education program that was field tested during the fall 1974 term. Since that time the program has been further tested and refined. (Editor/RK)

How a principal operates and functions as the leader of a school is based on complex interactions. What these are and how they affect the principal are described. Concludes that principals will continue to have major roles in tomorrow's schools. (Editor/RK)

Summarizes a study that elicited students' responses regarding their perceptions of success in 21 alternative-learning-environment (ALE) programs throughout Arkansas. Students overwhelmingly favored ALE over regular program characteristics regarding teachers, class size, student/teacher relationships, expectations, atmosphere, courses, building,…