Using the U.S. Census definition of poverty, an attempt was made to determine: how many poverty level South Dakota families there were in 1970 and where they resided; the socioeconomic factors explaining county differences in poverty incomes; whether those factors explaining poverty incidence would correlate with county differences in the extent…

The objective of this study was to examine the attitudes of elementary school children toward school and subject matters as they related to such factors as sex and grade level. A two-instrument battery, the Affective Reporting System, was administered to 2,846 elementary school children. Results indicated a general decline in attitude toward…

As a prelude to testing deductions from the Ferguson and other ability theories that environment influences patterns of ability, school children in 5 large and 11 small isolated communities on the South Coast of Newfoundland were tested to compare ability patterns of children in small places with those in large communities. Data used for…

This study identified behaviors of sibling pairs interacting on a cognitive task and related these behaviors to sibling structure variables (age and sex of each sibling and age spacing between them) and to measure of cognitive abilities of the younger sibling. Subjects were 160 sibling pairs randomly selected from appropriate subpopulations of…

To determine the effects of educational experiences on the knowledge of and attitudes toward mental retardation, 279 newly admitted graduate students and 288 graduating students in seven schools of social work completed a personal data sheet, semantic differential rating scales, a knowledge inventory, and a client preference rank order scale.…

Directed to teachers and other school personnel, the text presents screening procedures to aid in the early identification of the emotionally handicapped. The nature of preventive mental health, emotional handicap, and problems in early identification are considered; also considered are the direction and trends of past research. A study in early…

Presented are chapters concerned with the relationship of motor activity to education. The topics discussed are research, movement and performance in infants and children, principles of teaching motor skills; arousal level and attention; scribbling, drawing, writing, strength, flexibility, endurance, and control of large muscles; music and rhythm;…

The Picture Completion subtest of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence was included in this study as a measure of analytic functioning, an aspect of psychological differentiation. Twelve of the 23 items on the test were taken from the WISC and 11 were new. The child is shown a series of 23 pictures, each of which has some…

The Preschool Inventory is the task in this battery most clearly associated with general cognitive development. It measures a range of verbal, quantitative, and perceptual-motor skills. The Inventory was first developed as a general achievement measure for Head Start children. The 1970 edition of the Inventory contains 64 items in four areas:…

It is the intent of this Master's Thesis to describe the nonstandard morphology and syntax of a representative sample of children in the Norfolk City schools. The description is organized according to the linguistic patterning of nonstandard English features and their social and ethnic distribution. The speech of both white and Negro children is…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of method of presentation, grade level, sex, and achievement within grade and sex to the various bases upon which children of low socioeconomic background classify geometric concepts. Two tasks were administered to 96 subjects in the fifth, eighth, and eleventh grades--32 at each grade…

This is an evaluation of developmental guidance services' affective education program. Data was collected on children enrolled in Buerkle School and in a control school (Julia Shannon) in Stuttgart School District No. 22 (AR). Third- and fourth-grade level boys and girls who had been in the program for the full 1975-1976 year provided data for…

Social networks are the linkages between social units, both persons and groups, with which an individual has contact. The articles in this special issue address the different types of people and their functions that make up the social networks of females and males from infancy into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. (BJV)

While significant progress has occurred over the past several years regarding the expansion of the quantity and quality of after-school opportunities, the ambitious idea of "after-school for all" remains a distant goal. In this commentary, we push beyond some of the numbers to take a close look at questions related to access and equity,…

New perspectives need to be gained on the roles of older adults and older workers in the new millenium. Because today's adult is healthier, policies concerning social security, retirement, and work need to be changed. There is a need for acceptance of various types of aging. Rather than mandating specific retirement, the individual should have…