Presents a report from an oceanographer in New Zealand who analyzes the predominant moves of the citizens of New Zealand when it comes to rearing children and apportioning sex roles. She relates her own background and proposes measures for social reform. (Author/SA)

Many women who seek to combine a demanding career and a family encounter a variety of problems and conflicts. The special problems of these women as well as research findings on effective coping strategies are reviewed. Implications of these findings for developing appropriate counseling interventions are discussed. (Author)

Reviews research on prosody and segmental perception, segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and nonspeech, feature detectors, scaling speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic-phonetic dependencies within the syllable, higher order (nonphonetic) factors in the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral…

A study to determine if clinically educated pharmacy students at the University of Cincinnati possessed perceptions of the professional status of their career choice indicative of disillusionment is reviewed. The study suggests perceptions change over the three-year curriculum and changes may be related to content and nature of courses.…

"Strictness" and "warmth" were concepts used to scale descriptions of their mothers as given by first-born 4 1/2 year-olds. Independent data had been obtained on mothers during and after pregnancy. "Strict" and "warm" mothers differed in terms of mental health, post partum period, childhood, adolescence, parent-child interaction, and relations…

Gestalt approaches serve as a valuable tool for psychological education. They serve to enhance self-awareness and responsibility. Gestalt approaches can enliven a curriculum and promote self-understanding. Exercises are presented. (Author)

Three potentially influential factors were examined in this study: who is being ranked (self or other), where the child fits in the class hierarchy (high or low), and what terms are used for ranking ("gets own way" or "is toughest"). Fifty-two fourth-grade students ranked themselves and their classmates. (Author/SJL)

Identifies personal-social factors women perceive as being those that prevent them from entering occupations usually held by men. Factors included conceptions of male-dominated work environments, self-concept, stereotyped views held by family, attitudes of friends, security in traditional jobs, fear of failure, and money training. (CT)

As they forge creative relationships with other disciplines, education professionals are rewriting the classic definition of "teacher" to encompass new fields of human services. Teachers are challenged to see themselves not exclusively as academic instructors but in the broadest sense as behavior change agents. (CJ)

Studied the relationship between performance indices and facets of job satisfaction, role ambiguity, and role conflict among 102 full-time faculty members across three career stages. Results indicated that an individual's career stage within a profession had an important moderating effect on facets of job satisfaction and role perception…

Focuses on two questions: Does the use of three-dimensional representation in audiovisual instructional materials increase learning of a psychomotor task in which depth perception is critical as compared with two-dimensional representations? Is there a relationship between the impact of three-dimensional representation and the level of complexity…

Orthographic context and visual letter information were independently varied in a letter recognition task. The results contradicted the qualitative predictions of nonindependence theories of reading and are accurately described by a quantification of independence theory. (Author/CP)

Contrary to the contentions of many writers who report that academic chairmen experience considerable role conflict, a study at SUNY Buffalo shows that there is considerable agreement among faculty, administrators, and chairmen about which of the 46 tasks surveyed the chairmen must or should carry out. The 46 questionnaire tasks are listed. (JMD)

For reading specialists to play a decisive role in improving reading comprehension of young people, they must get into the classrooms. To gain this entry, they should behave in a way that acknowledges the classroom teacher's attitudes and perceptions about reading and that eliminates those practices that seem to offend teachers. (Author/SJL)

Correlates 138 elementary school children's views about the purposes of school to their styles of reward allocation: academically motivated students allocated rewards equally to two hypothetical performers who had unequally helped a teacher perform a manual chore, while socially motivated children allocated rewards in an equity (performance-based)…