Addresses two questions: 1) Is the perceived role expectancy behavior of teachers consistent with that of actual classroom behaviors on selected teacher personality characteristics? 2) Is there a difference in the behavior based on teacher self ranking of selected teacher personality characteristics? (Author/RK)

The author looks at educational goals and career education and the educational involvement of a wide range of community representatives, educators, and government personnel. He states that education must derive from the interdependence and interaction of persons, resources, and future realities. (MF)

Research in the area of attribution theory is reviewed--tendency to explain whatever happens to someone as a just consequence of personal characteristics, rather than environmental circumstances. Ramifications of this tendency in teachers' perceptions of students are discussed, and suggestions are offered for guarding against this sort of…

There have been a number of studies of the diagnosis and remediation of learning disabilities. Such factors as visual perception, learning style and strategies, and modality deficits are examined. The efficacy of various treatment approaches is reviewed. The importance of utilizing sophisticated remediation techniques is discussed. (Author)

Differences in self-satisfaction between the employed and the newly unemployed vary according to: (1) amount of concomitant change in social, family, and economic role; (2) relative importance of the status change among subgroups (male vs. female, white collar vs. blue collar); and (3) individual's attribution of cause for the status change (own…

Voluntary Visual Attention concerns "natural" viewing behavior or visual browsing when the subject is under no constraints regarding the distribution of attention. A general overview of this area of psychological investigation is presented. (Author/JKS)

This paper explores the origins of tensions between families and schools and argues that one must learn to distinguish between positive and negative forms of dissonance. In addition, it looks at the special role of women as central figures in the socialization process. (Author/AM)

Presents a conceptual scheme by which educators can evaluate the need for their roles to change as the educational sphere changes. Specifically examines consensus of learning resource specialists about changes in their role. (AV)

The authors discuss adult education within higher education, the role of the college and university continuing education division and the division's functions in adult education credit courses. The paper is intended to clarify the perspectives and responsibilities and to present the appropriate administrative role of continuing education…

The study was designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT) when used with 46 educable mentally retarded Ss (6-8 years old). (Author/SBH)

A study hypothesized that education contributes to the development of expectations and aspirations that may not be realized in pharmacy practice and that anxiety, depression, and job dissatisfaction would result from elevated expectations. The educational process and interaction between educational emphases and practice environment did not prove…

Interprets developments in perceptual geography through discussion of commentaries and reviews of literature and research within the field of perceptual geography. Research is reviewed in several categories, including definition of perceptual geography, an historical context, motifs, and understandings gained from perceptual geography. (Author/DB)

The differential effect of amphetamine optical isomers on Bender Gestalt performance was examined in 31 hyperkinetic minimally brain dysfunctioned children between the ages of 4 and 12 years, using a double-blind Latin-square crossover comparison. (Author)

A comparison was made of the reading errors of poor second-grade readers with low scores on geometric figure-copying tests with the errors of poor readers with high scores on such tests. Results indicated quantitative but not qualitative differences in the errors made. (A A)

A model of phoneme identification is proposed which describes the process by which continuous acoustic featural information about the place of articulation and the voicing of speech sounds is integrated during phoneme identification. (AM)