The hypothesis tested was that the evaluations and affective responses which accompany ongoing behavior may operate as reinforcers and punishers, thus exercising control over the persistence of those behaviors. Results indicate potent systematic effects due to the differing content of such evaluations and the associated affect or affective tone.…

This paper presents the design and some results of a series of teaching experiments. The design was created to develop a model for everyday math lessons, that describes the conditions which foster or hinder the construction of new mathematical meanings. The development process includes the students' epistemic processes, their social interactions,…

Counselors must make sound ethical decisions but, often, determining the appropriate course to take when confronted with a difficult ethical dilemma can be a challenge. This guide assists counselors in ethical decision making; it is presented as a supplement, and is to be used in conjunction with, the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of…

In the school culture, teachers are often caught between sanctioned instructional behavior and their own judgment; governed by legislated edicts, yet not freed by them to nurture their students. The relationship between pedagogic actions and morally acceptable outcomes, between responsibility to the self and to the students, the school, and the…

Article assesses the relationship between sociology and psychology. In it author suggests that one problem of sociology is that of attracting a fringe of uninformed followers who may spawn false or easy-going prescriptions for the social ills of the times. (Editor/RK)

The present study represents an attempt to identify the qualities perceived to be important for male and female applicants for the same job. (Author)

Analyzes teaching in the elementary school from the perspective of instructional roles. (Author/RK)

Discusses the search for more appropriate and effective ways of organizing and staffing elementary schools. (Author/RK)

Author suggests that teachers must use appropriate questions to lead children toward exploring their inner world. (Author/RK)

Study was aimed at determining whether positive adjectives and negative adjectives possess the oppositeness" (mutual exclusiveness) necessary for their conceptualization as defining the extremes of a single dimension of meaning. (Authors)

Education involves the learner with his own potential, with the values of ideas, with people and human affairs and these involvements are basic to the individual's growth and effectiveness. (IR)

An instrument was designed for student evaluation of presidential greatness. (VW)