Results of a workshop to review language arts, social studies, and counseling curriculum materials for sex bias are reported. The workshop, held in Lansing, Michigan in June 1979, consisted of 37 teachers who analyzed content and illustrations for sex discrimination. Evaluations are arranged alphabetically by the publisher of the textbook within…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE WAYS OF USING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT TO APPRAISE THE EFFECTS OF PREEMPLOYMENT EDUCATION -- BOTH GENERAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION -- ON SUBSEQUENT JOB SUCCESS. DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM AUGUST 1964 TO MAY 1965, AND CAME FROM THREE PRIMARY SOURCES -- (1) TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS WITH 150 BOYS WHO GRADUATED FROM…

A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN AGED 16 TO 21 WHO HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED BY THE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS IN A NATIONWIDE SAMPLE STUDY OF THE EARLY WORK EXPERIENCE OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH IN 1963 WERE RESURVEYED IN FEBRUARY 1965 TO ASSESS THE RELATIVE SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRESS OF THE DROPOUTS AND THE GRADUATES. THE RESURVEY INCLUDED 2.4 MILLION OF THE 2.7 MILLION YOUTH…

TO DISCOVER IF PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS, NEEDS, VALUES, AND ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS PREDICT CLASSROOM CLIMATE, 36 MALE PHYSICS TEACHERS VOLUNTARILY ATTENDED A BRIEFING SESSION FOR A NEW HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS COURSE AND TOOK A BATTERY OF PERSONALITY TESTS BEFORE TEACHING APPROXIMATELY 2,000 JUNIORS AND SENIORS TAKING THE NEW COURSE. CRITERION…

A SIXTH AND FINAL PHASE OF A NATIONAL PRINCIPALSHIP STUDY, BASED ON DATA OBTAINED FROM 382 MALE PRINCIPALS IN 41 LARGE CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS, WAS DESIGNED TO EVALUATE THE LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION (LOA) OF MALE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, DEFINED AS THEIR DESIRE TO ATTAIN HIGHER LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS IN SCHOOL SYSTEMS. THE STUDY AIMED…

A PICTURE INTEREST INVENTORY FOR THE DEAF WAS CONSTRUCTED AND STANDARDIZED. THE INVENTORY CONSISTED OF 27 TRIADS OF LINE DRAWINGS REPRESENTING VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS. ITEMS WERE GROUPED INTO 10 SCALES--PERSUASIVE, CLERICAL, MECHANICAL, SCIENTIFIC, OUTDOOR, LITERARY, COMPUTATIONAL, ARTISTIC, SOCIAL SERVICE, AND DRAMATIC. SUBJECTS WERE DEAF MALES AGED…

ONE IN A SERIES OF STUDIES OF THE CHILD REARING STUDY (CRS) OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN WASHINGTON, D.C., THIS BOOKLET PRESENTS CASE MATERIALS TO ILLUSTRATE THE CRS THESIS THAT THERE IS A WIDE VARIABILITY IN BEHAVIOR AND OUTLOOK AMONG THE URBAN POOR, AND SUGGESTS SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRS FINDINGS FOR PARENT AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION.…

This paper presents four instructional units and a list of print and nonprint resources available to instructors who want to teach students about the differences and erroneous stereotypes associated with sex roles in male/female communication. The first unit contains information pertinent to sex-role development and the socialization process, and…

Persistence in educational pursuits is strongly related to the prestige level and income level of an occupation. Personality correlates of persistence in education were examined in the context of a causal model of attainment in an eight-year longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of 2213 young men. Results imply that anxiety and…

Two essays are presented, "The Changing Shape of Work: Psychosocial Trends in America," by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and "Lives in Transition," by Ellen Goodman. In the first, several trends outlined include increasing participation of women and youths in the labor force, an increase in non-nuclear families, better jobs available to blacks combined…

As part of a study sponsored by the National Food Brokers Association, a survey of Johnson County Community College (JCCC) students was conducted to determine their perceptions of hospitality management and the factors that might deter them from choosing careers in that field. The survey instrument, distributed in the college commons by members of…

Indices of racial segregation across different places of employment are presented for black and non-Hispanic white workers in the same general occupational category (e.g., managers; operatives). Black and non-Hispanic white laborers and service workers are more segregated from one another than are their racial counterparts in other occupational…

This study investigated the effects of therapist gender, client gender and sex-stereotypic behavior on ratings of maladjustment and prognosis made on four bogus clinical descriptions. Gender was manipulated by changing sex of client within each of two sex-stereotypic behavioral descriptions yielding two sex-appropriate and two sex-inappropriate…

The paper suggests that culturally determined patterns of perception should be related to Fritz Heider's attribution theory in order to understand differences of perception in male-female interaction. The first section explains Heider's theory as a complex process in which past experiences with the person or act may influence perceptions. For…

Demographic data, opinions, and projections reported by freshmen entering the University of South Carolina (USC) during fall 1978 are reported. A questionnaire developed by the American Council on Education was administered to 80 percent of the entering class as part of a continuing national study. The data are divided into the categories of…