This paper discusses the use of mediated learning which involves training given to other humans by an experienced adult who frames, selects, focuses and feeds back environmental experiences in such a manner as to create learning situations. The authors' program utilizing such an approach is described. (Author/EJT)

The author describes an affective education program which helped fifth grade students to understand themselves better and to increase their vocabulary for expressing emotions. As a result, students seemed to increase friendships. Various learning tasks and procedures were used to achieve the above. (SE)

Presents the winners in the 38th Annual Science Talent Search and how the forty 18-year old students were chosen from among 980 contestants from 18 states and Singapore. Their names, and some of their activities and interests are also presented. (HM)

The author cites numerous studies and literary works to support her contention that peer tutoring is a valuable means of helping both the tutor and tutee academically, personally, and interpersonally. (KC)

Authorities indicate people need to feel loved and to believe they are performing a worthwhile task before they can feel successful in today's society. Applying this dictum to teachers, discussion centers on interaction belonging, building self-worth, the real life of and staff member involvement with the lonely teacher, and solutions. (JC)

In this essay, the experiences of a college teacher, his feelings, attitudes, and growing understanding of the problems of urban adult education, are recounted. Student attitudes, problems, and relationships with the teacher are discussed. (WI)

The development of administrators is examined in the context of both job role and personal development. This development should proceed in the next few years to acquire some of the sophistication of the faculty development movement, both in terms of technical development and in the application of adult development literature to the higher…

Presented are the normal physical and psychosocial aspects of the process of adolescence and how they affect deaf adolescents. (BD)

The adolescent identity crisis involves two processes: exploration of alternatives, and commitment. Danish adolescents were assessed regarding the degree of exploration or commitment in four areas: vocational maturity, values, political attitudes, and sex role. Sex differences and problems associated with categorizing the stage of crisis are…

Maturity in conative development (type of motivation included in Maslow's needs hierarchy) was found to be predictive of helping behavior in middle class white male college students. The effects of safety and esteem needs were compared, and the acceptance of responsibility was also investigated. (GDC)

Major problems in the field are presented through a brief review of Burt's work and a critical account of the Hawaiian and British schools of biometrical genetics. The merits and demerits of Christopher Jencks' study are also discussed. There follows an account of the principle of genetic variation with age, a new concept to the…

Higher education course designed to enhance personal and professional development of student personnel administrators through cognitive and affective activities. (Author)

Students are capable, at least in part, of acting upon their environment, of controlling their own destiny. They are self-organizing, integrating, thinking individuals who are capable of making decisions and following through on these decisions in an effort to guide their own lives. (Author)

It is our understanding of comprehension that must be studied, not the child's comprehension. Language develops in a child over time and is dependent on the child's culture and individual experiences for its rate of development and its character. (Author/IRT)

Does not support the hypothesis that cognitive regression takes place as a part of normal aging. (RL)