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Tolor, Alexander; Brannigan, Gary G. – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
The authors have formulated some impressions of differences and similarities found in these trainees. In personality, the students in these fields often display differences in need for structure, need for external support, social maturity, and desire for autonomous professional functioning. Implications for quality of service offered and training…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Professional Education
Von Bargen, Wayne J. – 1981
College students experiencing academic difficulties are a major concern to universities. Research has indicated that many underachievers display certain identifiable electroencephalogram (EEG) characteristics. Unlike achieving students, underachievers often exhibit little EEG arousal during normally motivating tasks. These findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Dansereau, Donald F. – 1982
Effects of embedded (appropriately positioned within text) and intact (outline format) headings on the processing of ecological and geological text material were examined in two separate studies. Suggesting that outlines may provide readers with global information about a passage and that embedded headings may aid in discovering relationships…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Science