Dimensions of scientific literacy with regard to a theoretical definition were inferred for a group of science oriented persons, a group of nonscience oriented persons, and the two groups combined. Comparisons of the strength of agreement of the two groups, and of subgroups of the two groups, with the inferred dimensions were made. The sample…

Presented is information designed to help teachers identify visual perception difficulties and provide remediation for elementary school students. Sections cover the following topics: diagnosis of visual perception skills in reading; visual perceptual factors and their relation to school success; and definition and activities for figure-ground…

The professional role orientation of women teachers and women administrators is compared with a limited number of variables. (Available from the Department of Educational Administration, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G5; $4.00 annually.) (MLF)

Aesthetic awareness of American and Japanese children grades one, four, seven, and ten was measured by indicated preference of one of two simultaneously projected color slides. (Author)

Men nurse stereotypes (former corpsmen, homosexuals, or those seeking administrative positions) were challenged by results of an open-ended questionnaire survey of 15 male nursing students. In addition to the role conflicts all nurses experience, men in nursing face: isolation and loneliness, lack of role models, and others' stereotyped ideas.…

Suggests that a most crucial and complex priority is the need for the head of schools to come to terms with his or her own personal needs, especially as related to feelings about authority. Coming to terms with oneself in relation to leadership roles is never-ending process of self-examination. (Author/AM)

Notes that the position of head of a school is crucial at the beginning when children go to a school because the whole tone of the school is set by the attitude of the head. The way the head thinks affects the children and the staff and the staff's attitude to the children. (Author/AM)

Suggests that even though some argue that there is not much that can be done inside the school if the conditions outside are working against it, a situation of tolerance, humanity, compassion, and challenge can be created in schools. Only the educator has the opportunity to make life good in school. (Author/AM)

Notes that if the school really belongs to the community, then administrators have no more right to put a kid out of his school than to put their children out of the house. Discusses the implications of this ideology. (Author/AM)

Counselors' (N=80) attitudes toward disability differed according to their personal attributes. The 40 counselors judged as the more effective counselors, either male or female, rated the disabled similarly to normals. In contrast, perceptions of normals and disabled by the 40 less effective counselors differed significantly according to their…

This last in a three-part series gives ground rules and examples for guiding the dynamics of various kinds of career groups. (Author)

This paper analyzes the responses of Norwegian academic-secondary teachers to questions about their social origins, about the extent to which the teachers developed a commitment to a teaching career during their university education, and about various aspects of their professional attitudes. The findings indicate that social origin and the…

The influence of cues in the visual peripheral field is not a random one.

Two detection experiments were conducted with short lists of synthetic speech stimuli where phoneme targets were compared to syllable targets. Results suggest that phonemes and syllables are equally basic to speech perception. (Author/RM)