Researchers in learning analytics have created indicators with learners' trace data as a proxy for studying learner behaviour in a college course. Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) is one of the theories used to explain these behaviours, distinguishing between deep, surface, and organized study. In Latin America, researchers have demonstrated…

Describes how the aid of interview instrument embodying behavioral criteria, responses from selected respondents are assigned to specified areas of the paradigm, bringing into sharp focus role agreement, role conflict, and role accommodation. (Author)

A multiple discriminate analysis of student role orientations as related to college dropouts yielded a significant function which indicated that defaulters and successful persisters as distinguished from probation persisters and dismissals have stronger preferences for social development and vocational behavior, moderate interest in academic,…

For the untrained subjects, only attendants achieved a lower approach score than trained therapists. Attendants achieved lower approach scores than other untrained groups for two of the patient types. The results support the need for additional research concerning minimally trained subjects and roles they might assume in mental health settings.…

The authors argue that instructional personnel in health education should assume an approach emphasizing joint decision-making processes in which the instructor models methods for making responsible choices, rather than assuming for the clients a unilateral responsibility for decision making. (MJB)

The role of the spouse in both the etiology and the maintenance of alcoholism has been focussed on by theoreticians of various persuasions, including psychoanalytic, behavioral, sociological and family systems. These models, focussing on individual and interactional components of alcoholism, have generated a variety of treatment interventions…

Role playing as a tool for counselors is discussed in terms of rationale and technical use. (BY)

The author contends that the liberation of women is also a liberation for men, but that many men will be unable to accept such freedom'' because of their basic intolerance not only toward women but toward other men. Change will come, albeit slowly. (CJ)

Results of this study demonstrated that boys identify strongly with masculine role models both in primary relationships and in those in which they are not acquainted directly with the role model; girls tend to identify with both male and female role models more than boys. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of shared values and expectations on the behavior of 290 faculty members representing 34 departments at a large graduate oriented university. Responses to a questionnaire indicated the expectations the faculty member had for himself, those his colleagues had for themselves, and those of his employing institution…

Data were collected during October, November, and December of 1967. Computations for this project were performed at the Indiana University Medical Research Computation Center.

This report identifies factors which influence workers' behavior so that job performance and success are affected. In particular, the study resolves questions concerning talent development, occupational allocation, adaptability of workers, worker satisfaction, and performance. A detailed review of the literature is included. Suggestions are made…

The author examines how peoples' identification of their real selves either through feelings or actions is changing from an institutional focus to an impulse focus. (Author/DE)

If our schools are to become socially functional, it is imperative that we address ourselves to the basic theme that teaching must be in harmony with childlike perceptions and biases. (Author/WY)