GRADES OR AGES: Grades 11 and 12. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide begins with an introduction followed by two main sections: 1) Growing into Maturity in a Changing World, with four units (Understanding Behavior, Environmental Factors in Satisfying Needs, Some Behavioral Responses to Needs, and The…

Data for a 4-year study of psychological traits were obtained from more than 300 male and 150 female national merit scholars and certificate of merit recipients on the Omnibus Personality Inventory, the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values, the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator, and a questionnaire. The traits included values, attitudes, and…

Individualized instruction is the central theme of a model for the preparation of elementary school teachers, and this theme is developed through the inclusion of unique features such as emphasis on program flexibility, student self-development, and learner efficiency. These unique features are incorporated into an academically and clinically…

Individualized instruction is the central theme of a model for the preparation of elementary school teachers, and this theme is developed through the inclusion of unique features such as emphasis on program flexibility, student self-development, and learner efficiency. These unique features are incorporated into an academically and clinically…

The report describes the initial phase of a study of coordination and integration of career education in the military with the national career education effort. The study was undertaken in recognition of the potential significance of the military as a career education resource in society, and in recognition of the need to develop a concept of…

With the variation in colleges and individuals, it is imperative that studies be undertaken to describe and understand these differences in order to plan programs that will enhance an individual's growth within his environment. This study describes student perceptions of the Colorado State University environment. Subjects were 300 undergraduate…

The utilization of personal space as a function of race and sex was the subject of this investigation. The specific focus of the study was to discover if blacks within American society learn and enact different personal space definitions from those of the majority culture. A 2 x 2 factorial analysis of variance with repeated measures on two…

This study provides evidence for the validity of the Social Adequacy subscales of the Psychosocial Maturity Inventory: Social Commitment, Tolerance, and Openness to Change. A group of students who invested substantial time and energy in social action projects directed toward helping others was compared with a randomly chosen control group. The…

A private corporation conducted a study for the United States Air Force in 1973, investigating the long term effects of drug use on general mental ability. The air force personnel selected for participation in the study were 3741 known drug users and 6772 controls. Subjects received requests to sign a form allowing their high schools to release…

Performance evaluation involves at least 50 percent self-evaluation. Therefore, the success of an evaluation plan, if it is honestly aimed at performance improvement, depends more on self-involvement and self-evaluation than on any other factor. This book describes in detail methods of self-evaluation in the setting of performance objectives, the…

It was hypothesized that socialization within an achievement-oriented culture would encourage children to adjust the amount of contingent self-reward according to the length and difficulty of a task. A total of 32 second grade children completed long-easy, long-difficult, short-easy, and short-difficult versions of three tasks and set their own…

This paper analyzes the writings and character of Confucius from the perspective of his title of the "First Teacher." Confucius functioned as a scholar who, in a time of political chaos, attempted to glean from the past those principles and attitudes capable both of serving the social order well and of enduring. To achieve peaceful…

This paper describes a Life Skills Course developed by Saskatchewan Newstart Inc. The course represents an attempt to integrate educational and psychotherapeutic principles and techniques for the development of personal competence in many aspects of life among the disadvantaged. It provides the student with competence in the use of problem solving…

Forty adult overweight female volunteers were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (1) two self-control instruction conditions; (2) an automatic immunization instruction group; and (3) a no treatment control group. In the self-control groups, treatment was presented as an aid to gaining self-control over behavior, while in the automatic…

The objectives of this study were: (1) to study the present goals and operations of the Banff school in Canada and to approach its unique contributions to the life of the nation, (2) to assess the role the school might play in the future, and (3) to determine the most effective arrangement for governing and support of the school. Most of this…