The results of this study concluded that stability in a personality type was strongly influenced by the number of jobs available in a particular personality type and the structure of the labor market demand. The results showed that psychological concepts seem to be more important in changing jobs than in selecting initial jobs. (Author)

The present study was conducted to assess and compare perceptions of the female sex role held by male and female high school counselors with those of male and female college freshmen. Results indicated no significant differences between the four groups. (Author/PC)

This paper focuses on Melvin Kohn's suggestive hypothesis that white-collar parents stress the development of internal standards of conduct in their children while blue-collar parents are more likely to react on the basis of the consequences of the child's behavior. This hypothesis was supported. (Author)

Skills or knowledge acquired in short-term educational experiences are often rapidly washed-out after returning to a work environment. This article describes an attempt to maintain the skills of employment counselors after they return from a workshop setting to their work environment. (Author)

Interviewer ratings of 398 registrants of a university placement office were analyzed. The importance of the candidate's general impression on the interviewer is noted, and the need for applicants to be aware that credentials and interview behavior alone do not ensure employment is stressed. (Author)

A student services--data information system was designed and implemented at the University of Iowa to determine and analyze process criteria for counseling activities in terms of effort, cost and function. (Author)

A variety of traditional and nontraditional selection indices were used to predict the outcome of a graduate-level course in counseling which was specifically designed to improve the students' human relations skills. The need for a new and more efficient predictive model for graduate-level counselor training is discussed. (Author)

Congress established the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1965 to support scholarly research, education, and public programs in the humanities. Under the act that established the NEH, the term humanities includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following disciplines: history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature;…

In clinical trials, adaptive allocation means that the therapies assigned to the next patient or patients depend on the results obtained thus far in the trial. Although many adaptive allocation procedures have been proposed for clinical trials, few have actually used adaptive assignment, largely because classical frequentist measures of inference…

This publication contains 24 invited papers on leisure, parks and recreation issues. The papers include professional perspectives that range from the hands-on practical issues to innovative research projects and practical program developments that were prepared especially for the symposium. Among the papers included are: (1) "A Professional…

The use of complex research agreements for joint research activities between industry and universities is assessed, with attention to the legal rights of the contracting parties. The focus is research relationships between a university and a company or an individual scientist and industry. The historical development and legal foundation of…

The present status of the Elementary and Secondary School Desegregation Study, funded by the United States Commission on Civil Rights and currently underway, was evaluated. The study is designed to investigate the relationship between type and extent of desegre- gation activity and the resultant level of desegregation in the schools. This study is…

This memo reports on the results of an investigation into the Commission on Civil Rights' 1984 School Desegregation Study based on an examination of the pertinent documents involved in the study, for which Unicon Research Corporation took over the contract in July, 1985. Gary Orfield, member of the project's advisory group, had charged that the…

A fieldwork procedure that enables students to design and conduct meaningful evaluation research in one semester is described. The procedure has been used in a 13-week program evaluation course in a master's program in community psychology and industrial/organizational psychology. About 2 months before the course begins, administrative units…

The objective of this study was to provide information about the impact of study abroad on people who had completed the American Institute for Foreign Study's Overseas Learning Program between 1983-1988. The American Institute for Foreign Study contacted 7,500 participants of high school or college educational travel and study abroad during this…