This research aims at examining the relationships among unethical computer usage behavior and the personality characteristics of locus of control, adjustment to social norms, antisocial tendency, and aggression on Turkish university students. The research was applied to 217 university students. Data were collected through Unethical Computer Using…

Factors affecting the student use of a course management system in a web-enhanced course are investigated using the technology acceptance model. Represented in the present study is the second phase of the analysis, with a focus on the causal relationship of subjective norms to student attitudes towards WebCT and their effect on three dependent…

This study examined what values, attitudes, and behaviors are conveyed through televised sports news programming that would be expected in both sport and the world of work. The study involved viewing 102 editions of ESPN's "SportsCenter," a sports news program, and recording comments made by program anchors, news journalists, players,…

Alcohol use and abuse has received extensive attention, with recent concerns focused on the use and abuse of alcohol by adolescents and young adults. Alcohol use has become one of the major rituals in the rites of passage from childhood to adulthood. Anthropologists have documented the importance of rites of passage rituals for marking the…

The paper presents the standards of the University of Colorado concerning academic honesty and integrity and explains how the university handles breaches of these standards. Breaches of academic honesty include cheating, plagiarism, and unauthorized possession or disposition of academic materials not formally released by the instruction. Each of…

Mythologies develop in corporations the same way they develop in tribes or nations and provide the driving force for building loyalty to and identification with the organization. The myth-building process involves a constituting experience or founding event, an existential interpretation of the event, the institutionalization of the event, and the…

The proceedings of a seminar on corporate loyalty and the contributions of a liberal arts curriculum to this quality in the workplace are presented. They include the keynote address by Tadao Okabe and panel presentations by Paul R. Verkuil, Paul MacCowatt, Vinson Sutlive, Thomas T. Tilghman, George N. Appell, Herrington J. Bryce, Hans Tiefel, and…

Part of a series of instructor training modules on related subjects instruction for apprentices, this booklet deals with controlling instructional settings. The first chapter consists of an outline of the scope and content of the instructor training modules as well as a self-assessment pretest. Covered in the module are establishing and explaining…

School athletics can be an exceedingly potent tool for developing desirable behavior patterns -- but only if directed by coaches of resolute integrity. Offers illustrative anecdotes. (Editors)

Proposes two kinds of contract grading criteria relating to preparation and measurement of assignment objectives. (MH)

AN EVALUATION OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF OPTOMETRISTS IN NEW YORK STATE WAS MADE AND WAS RELATED TO DEVELOPED ATTITUDES ON COMMERCIALISM AND PROFESSIONALISM. THE STUDY WAS MADE TO DEVELOP A SOCIAL INDEX OF PROFESSIONALISM, TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS THAT PRODUCE PRACTITIONERS WITH THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL…