This paper argues that social competence should be the primary measure of the success of intervention efforts. Difficulties in defining and assessing social competence are discussed, and an index of social competence, which includes a variety of factors, is suggested. (Author/AM)

Authors describe their attempts to develop the talking skills of fifth-year school leavers, many of whom "inhabit a verbal desert". (Editor/RK)

Model for helping students learn to be with other people and to develop healthy, full communication with a partner. (Author)

Presenting information intended to aid those who will be responsible for integrating the educable mentally retarded into shop programs, this article discusses population characteristics, physical characteristics, and learning characteristics of the mentally retarded. Interpersonal skills and safety considerations are also discussed in relation to…

Major points of this paper are: (a) that the goals of femininity and competence are not necessarily the same, and (b) that little is known about how to rear females to be competent, partly because competence, especially intellectual competence, has never been considered an important goal for females. (Author/AM)

This paper uses the Interpersonal Perception Method (IPM) to analyze a single episode in a group's experience. The authors feel that such an approach is much more useful than the more usual trait analysis in understanding those experiences which will mediate the group's functioning. (NG)

This approach is primarily concerned with social reasoning and judgment, with how children reason about social phenomena, not just what they reason. The how of social reasoning is called structure, what is reasoned about, content. Presented at the American Psychological Association, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

This paper focuses on a cross-age intervention program in which sixth graders led discussion groups with first graders using Selman's (1974) levels of interpersonal conceptions as the content area. Presented at the American Psychological Association, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

Discusses answers given by members of three community panels on the question of what qualities employers value in prospective employees, which included those of positive work attitudes, good self concept and ability to communicate. (TA)

This research compares short-term variants of three approaches-Rogerian encounter, Gestalt sensory awareness, and self-directed encounter-in relation to intermember empathy and cohesiveness and outcomes of decreased feelings of alienation and increased sense of self-autonomy. All significantly decreased feelings of alienation and increased sense…

Notes on classroom techniques and activities through which teachers can aid students in becoming whole persons. (JT)

Discusses the need for developing job competency tests which measure cognitive and personal traits, as well as specific skills and knowledge. Emphasizes that the use of rigorously validated measures of intellectual and personal traits facilitates the evaluation of post-secondary education's effectiveness in the post-academic world. (Author/GC)

Studies and issues of administrative effectiveness are reviewed and discussed, which are synthesized into the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO) theory of interpersonal behavior for educational administrators. Journal available from University Associates, Inc., 7596 Eads Avenue, La Jolla, California 92037. (ND)

The hypothesis was that structures built by group members in dealing with conflict and decision making would be contingent on their life styles. Three different sets of groups of persons with homogeneous life styles created three different (and predicted) structures in a problem-solving task. (Author)

Examined are the potential contributions of research on social reciprocity to the assessment and remediation of social withdrawal among educationally handicapped preschool children. (Author)