Examined the life role aspirations of high ability women undergraduates. Results showed these women aspired to relatively high level full-time careers. On the whole, they seemed to be conflict-free in their attitudes toward their projected life roles. The data support the diminishing importance of the career-marriage conflict for women. (Author/BL)

"Dumb jocks" are not born, they are being systematically created. Black student athletes suffer from the outset from disadvantages: the myth of innate Black athletic superiority, the stereotype of the dumb Black, and social forces determining a vulnerability to exploitation. (MSE)

This study investigated whether the constant decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) mathematics scores since 1963 reflected a decrease in student mathematical ability or the SAT's inadequacy in measuring mathematical ability. Findings indicated a very low correlation between SAT math scores and overall college math grades of six graduating…

Survey assessed the relative contributions of family structure resources and family process resources to child reading ability, self-esteem, everyday skills, and social competence. Reading ability was related to structural resources and interpersonal process resources, self-esteem with interpersonal process resources and everyday-skills weakly…

A pilot study at a higher education institution compared grades of teacher education graduates to noneducation graduates to observe if there were significant differences. A related purpose of the study was to undertake a new research design that could be used for similiar studies. (DF)

Assessments of self-concept are not merely a reflection of the pupil's objective appraisal of his own scholastic achievement, but represent another domain of useful information in explaining achievement differences. (MM)

This study analyzed symptom complaint patterns and perceived academic impairment in a sample of 189 university students diagnosed with various learning disorders (LD). Each participant underwent an extensive standardized assessment battery and was diagnosed according to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…

This study investigated the tacit knowledge of highly productive and influential scholars in educational administration. Tacit knowledge is personal knowledge so thoroughly grounded in experience that it cannot be fully expressed. Some researchers suggest it is a marker of practical intelligence. Individual, indepth, semistructured interviews were…

Information regarding multiple college application practices was collected from a large sample of Virginia high school seniors. Results indicated that most college applicants file fewer than three applications and that more applications are filed by students with high academic ability. (Author)

This study determined when, over a four-year period, those members of the 1966 freshman class at Berkeley who sought counseling, initiated their contacts. Also studied was the relationship between time of initiating counseling and scores on the School and College Ability Test, Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the SVIB. (Author)

In New York City, youngsters bent on maritime careers check in at Pier 42 to attend classes aboard converted WW II ships. (Editor)

Four studies are described to demonstrate that low-level expectations of student ability become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Adult educators inherit students whose self-concept may have been formed by oppressive, self-destructive expectations and are cautioned against perpetuating discrimination and destructive labeling practices. (AG)

A group of deaf students attending North High School, Oskosh, Wisconsin, need little or no prodding in their graphics arts class. The students have varying degrees of hearing and speech impairment but they are all hungry for education. (DS)

Two articles dealing with self estimate ability in adolescence are presented; one is an investigation to determine whether age, grade level, school program, sex, intelligence, and social class influence the accuracy of self-knowledge of vocationally relevant attributes of high school students. The second article comments on this study and other…