Described is the social service delivery model of the Ochlocknee Project, a community based program for rural multiply handicapped preschoolers. Included is a job description for a staff social worker and detailed are objectives and procedures for three social service goals: identification and location of children with multiple handicaps;…

E. Husserl's concept of intentionality provides a conceptual perspective of interpersonal communication that suggests a notion of face-to-face communication called "interaction involvement." Structured along dimensions of awareness and responsiveness, interaction involvement explains interpersonal communication as a transactional relationship…

Four factors have been reported in the literature as being related to spatial test performance. This study investigated the main and interaction effects of sex, handedness, birth order, and experience on three different types of spatial performance; surface development, object rotation, and coordination of viewpoints. A total of 217 undergraduate…

Cognitive development and various educational implications are discussed in terms of Donald Saari's model of the interaction of a learner and the enviroment and the constraints imposed by the inefficiency of the learner's cognitive system. Saari proposed a hierarchical system of cognitive structures such that the relationships between structures…

This dissertation summary discusses a study to investigate the elementary school teacher role and its concomitant expectations as perceived by principals and teachers. Teachers were surveyed as to how they perceived their own roles and what they thought principals perceived the roles of teachers to be. Principals in those same schools were…

This paper describes a program of research into children's understanding of psychological principles underlying social behavior. An initial study had indicated that at about 10 years of age children knew many of the basic principles of social behavior and the rules for social control. Two strategies were developed to explore these findings in…

Noting that one means of better understanding the nature of cultural differences is to elucidate the cognitive differences between members of differing cultures, this paper examines Alexander Luria's sociohistorical theory of functional cognitive systems. The paper first describes Luria's notion of functional systems, the crux of which postulates…

The comparative validity of observations recorded by volunteer telephone crisis workers was examined. To assess workers' listening and response skills, an instrument was devised to rate callers' expressed stress level, confidence in self, confidence in using other community resources, and duration of stress. Groups of 10 workers were invited to…

The Communication Role Assessment Measure (CRAM) is an application of role theory to organizational communication. Using a communication-based taxonomy, CRAM was developed to integrate previous research in the field and to assess the following elements: the amount of time spent by members of an organization in selected communication roles; their…

The National Advisory Council on Adult Education (NACAE) is examined from the perspectives of various adult educators and the Council members themselves. Focus is on three areas: (1) the demographic characteristics of the thirty-seven people who have served on the NACAE since its inception in January, 1971; (2) Council member activities undertaken…

A SEMINAR IN THE VISUAL ARTS WAS HELD AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TO DEFINE PROBLEM AREAS IN AND TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION. OVER 40 PERSONS FROM A VARIETY OF PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINES, PURSUITS, AND ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATED, ALLOWING HALF THEIR TIME TO SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO IDENTIFY THE CRITERIA USED BY ADOPTION WORKERS IN THEIR EVALUATION OF ADOPTIVE APPLICATIONS, TO DISCOVER WHETHER CASEWORKERS HAVE VARIOUS APPLICANT MODELS FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF CHILDREN, AND TO EXPLORE ATTRIBUTES OR ATTITUDES DIFFERENTIATING ACCEPTED AND REJECTED COUPLES. THREE PUBLIC AND FIVE PRIVATE AGENCIES…

DEVIANCE IS AN INTERACTIONAL PROCESS IN WHICH THE NORMS OF A SOCIAL GROUP HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SUBSEQUENTLY LABELED DEVIANT BY THE GROUP. THUS SCHOOL DEVIANCE--UNDERACHIEVEMENT, MISBEHAVIOR, AND EARLY SCHOOL-LEAVING--IS A CONSEQUENCE OF AN ADVERSE SCHOOL-PUPIL INTERACTION IN WHICH THE SCHOOL IS AN EQUAL PARTNER. SEVERAL…

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PREREADING MEASURES OF VISUAL-MOTOR-PERCEPTUAL SKILLS AND READING ACHIEVEMENT WERE STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE 172 FIRST GRADERS. PRETESTS AND POST-TESTS FOR WORD RECOGNITION, MOTOR COORDINATION, AND VISUAL PERCEPTION WERE ADMINISTERED. FOURTEEN VARIABLES WERE TESTED. RESULTS INDICATED THAT FORM-COPYING WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN…

TO DETERMINE HOW COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS ABOUT RULES OF BEHAVIOR AFFECT THE POSITION AND ROLE OF TEACHERS, INFORMATION ABOUT THE NORMATIVE STRUCTURE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WAS GAINED THROUGH USE OF ROLE NORM INVENTORIES ADMINISTERED TO 367 TEACHERS, 22 PRINCIPALS, 7 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT, 603 CITIZENS, 56 COMMUNITY LEADERS,…