Provides a practical approach to developing interdisciplinary educational programs for health professions students from different colleges. A three-stage model that enables interdisciplinary teams of faculty members to collaborate during planning and implementing programs is described. These three stages are identifying interdependence, exploring…

The president of CASE explains the 12 characteristics of a competent presidential assistant including: an other-person centered orientation toward life, identity with people individually, identity with humanity, efficient and accepting view of reality, deep interpersonal relations with others. (MLW)

Examined conceptions of femininity and masculinity in women who were college freshmen, in their midtwenties, midthirties, and midforties. Results indicated older women emphasized the biological element of their role, and rejected the relationship between gender and personality. Younger women emphasized physical characteristics and were more likley…

Discusses the results and the implications for accounting education of a questionnaire sent to members of the National Association of Accountants. The study was made to determine management accountants' perception of their role(s) in the organization. The author also comments on accounting curriculum and the role of the accounting educator. (CT)

Sixteen students (6-26 years old) with developmental dyslexia or hyperactivity and 16 controls were administered the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and the Revised test (PPVT-R). Increased numbers of perceptually loaded plates accounted for a decrease in IQ scores for dyslexic hyperactive Ss on the revised test. (CL)

Looks at vision problems in the areas of visual acuity, visual skills efficiency, and visual perceptual-motor development, and points out symptoms of each that children might exhibit. Suggests things teachers might do to help. (FL)

A work reproduction design was used to examine the effect of attentional focus on the perception of physical work. Subjects performed a fixed interval of work while answering arithmetic problems or performing in an unfilled control condition. Results of this study are discussed. (Author/DF)

Tested the idea that exposure to television people could affect children's judgments of a real person introduced after watching television. Found that television can prime traits and provide a frame of reference for use in encoding new information about people. (PD)

Two experiments examined the effect of concurrently holding 0, 2, 4, or 6 nouns in memory on the recognition of visual stimuli briefly presented to the left or right visual fields. (Editor)

A familiarity effect in these experiments is defined as a subject's ability to respond more rapidly to a familiar stimulus than to an unfamiliar stimulus. Evidence indicates that familiarity does not affect an initial encoding process, but it can affect a comparison process. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the perceptual characteristics of counselors at the elementary, secondary, and community college levels. Counselors (N=45) were asked to write "human relations incidents." There were no significant differences between groups. All counselors held positive perceptual characteristics. (NG)

Described is the use of musical remediation in teaching learning disabled elementary children. (PT)

Describes a small group discussion project involving students and teachers in two large white suburban high schools. The project's intention was to focus discussion on the social quality of the relationship between students and teachers, and to assess the impact of the discussions on student perceptions. (Author/RK)

Discusses two studies which indicate that student audiences rated speeches of their peers significantly higher if they thought that the speakers had completed a course in public speaking. (MH)