This study seeks to understand boys' lower academic success by analysing the relationship between sex, gender role self-concept, help seeking attitudes, and school performance in a sample of 182 German 11th grade students (83 girls, 99 boys), age 16. Grades at two points in time, intelligence test data, help-seeking attitudes, gender role…

The authors encourage those in the field of school psychology to consider the use of learning disabilities assessment practices in relation to specific American Psychological Association and National Association of School Psychologists ethical codes and in regard to the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association,…

The purposes of this study were to investigate adolescent intellectual decline, and to attempt to determine some of the sexual differences possibly inherent in the phenomenon. It was hypothesized that (1) girls would decline in greater numbers and to a greater degree than boys; and (2) areas and amounts of sex differences of the decliners would…

Fifteen male and 15 female friendship pairs at three grade levels (grades 5, 7 and 9) participated in a study of interpersonal perceptions of friendship. Each subject expressed an intelligence perception of self, friend, ideal friend and expected rating of self by the friend. Results are discussed. (CM)

The process of moving away from a simplistic reliance on intelligence test ratings to more sophisticated models of assessment and service is more advanced in systems where the school psychologist is given real professional status and is allowed to shape the nature of services offered. (MB)