This study attempted to test the relationship between optimal total heterophily and communication effectiveness, to identify relevant dimensions of homophily/heterophily in achieving communication effectiveness, and to demonstrate a method for measuring source-receiver heterophily, as well as examining their relationship to the communication…

Suggests that a fundamental idea embraced today in Sweden is that one must aim for change which emancipates men as well as women from the restrictive effects engendered by the traditional sex-roles. (Author/JM)

Major findings of this study are that (a) there is an increasing tendency, with increasing age, to make differential use of different communication channels according to the aspect of meaning considered, and (b) the relative importance of intonation to perceptions of affective meaning increases with age. (Authors)

To the extent that class discussion is representative of the entire program, the dominant emphasis on memory and interpretation questions in this study suggests that the cognitive objectives of the two programs are remarkably similar. (Authors)

Summary data from teacher and student responses to a checklist describing perceptions of what should (teacher) and does (student) go on in biology classrooms are presented without interpretation. Classes were studying biology in grades 11 and 12 of South Australian high schools. (AL)

Aim of the present study was to clarify the processes involved in the apparent lag in copying a diamond by reducing the lag experimentally with perceptual training of discrimination of orientation. (Authors)

Preschool, first-grade, and fifth-grade children served as Ss in 2 experiments designed to test the developmental hypothesis that memorizing and perceiving are functionally undifferentiated for the young child, with deliberate memorization only gradually emerging as a separate and distinctive form of cognitive encounter with external data.…

Research supported by the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (VM)

Paper presents summaries of a protocol from a negotiated accountability conference, a technique for demonstrating mutual accountability within the staff of a University Extension Division. (Author)

Examines the notion of community in terms of language forms and specialized knowledge, and in terms of the social organization of the members of discipline groups. (Author)