Findings of study comparing first career, second career, and alternative career academic librarians using two tests measuring personality and leadership characteristics indicate that there are no differences among the three groups that might make one more capable managerially than another. Seventeen references are cited. (EJS)

Education can be propagandistic in the Ellulian sense, and education was not insignificant among the preconditions determining the emigration of rural people from Ilocos Sur in the 1920s. Formal education lubricates the integration of peasants with international economics and politics when they might otherwise have nothing to do with such affairs.…

Used paired comparison to construct a reading preference inventory based on 14 reading themes drawn from previous research. Tested it using intermediate-grade children in three Canadian communities. (FL)

Using Tough's hierarchical analysis of language functions, this study found developmental differences in the communicative functions and strategies used by preschoolers in their conversations with one another. Generally found that females developed language strategies earlier than males and achieved a more advanced level of cognitive complexity…

A survey indicates judgeships are a very attractive legal career. Students preferred selection (in descending order) by initial merit selection, merit promotion from inferior courts, executive appointment, legislative appointment, nonpartisan election, and partisan election. (AVAIL: University of Cincinnati College of Law, Room 12, Taft Hall,…

The process by which boys from different subcultures use racial and behavioral cues in establishing their preference for unfamiliar children was studied. Racial but not socioeconomic status differences in the use of behaviors as social cues was found. (Author/GK)

Educational and occupational aspirations of Black and White, male, Virginia high school seniors between 1967-76 are compared. By 1976, many White students had lowered their aspirations, while Blacks had not. The relationship of father's education to student's aspirations remains stable. (AM)

Male (N=110) and female (N=84) undergraduate students completed a variant of the Semantic Differential questionnaire. Subjects evaluated either male or female liberal arts and engineering majors. Female engineering majors were evaluated as less attractive than their female liberal arts counterparts. (Author)

Male and female undergraduate psychology students were administered the Adjective Check List, Bem Sex Role Inventory and Personal Attributes Questionnaire. The masculinity and femininity subscale scores for each of these three measures were correlated and subjected to a principal factor analysis with varimax rotation separately for males and…

The impact of student input characteristics and college environments on types and amounts of financial aid received by men and women are studied. A demographic description of federal student financial aid recipients can be valuable to policy makers in evaluating the degree of success in providing aid to target populations. (MLW)

The difference in work patterns and practice characteristics of male and female physicians are examined. The results indicate that female physicians are less likely to work in traditional practice settings, work fewer hours per week, are reimbursed at a lower annual level, and have a slightly different composition of patients. (Author/JMD)

The effects of videotapes of situations depicting coping difficulties (along with group discussion) on the prosocial behavior of 109 emotionally and academically handicapped boys (ages 7 to 15) in a residential treatment center were studied. Findings showed that Ss in the treatment group improved in their abilities to exercise self-control. (PHR)

An experiential learning questionnaire was administered to students in eight experience-based career education programs to determine the characteristics of both good and poor learning experiences in the community. Implications of the study for college staff responsible for designing or improving community-based experiential programs are discussed.…

Studies children's justification of message choices as characteristics of their reasoning processes. Indicates that interpersonal reasoning increases in sophistication and complexity over the age groups studied and that females reason at a higher level than males. Situational influences on level of interpersonal reasoning were also found. (JMF)

The study determined the effects of Structured Learning Therapy (SLT) in treating 60 Puerto Rican fathers who had exhibited family aggression. The validity of using a short-term therapy program such as SLT to counteract a longstanding cultural tradition was questioned. (SB)