The patients and staff of a psychiatric hospital were asked about their attitudes toward mental illness and how they conceive the roles of various patient and staff groups in the therapeutic community. The focus was on the bipolar dimension of "Custodial" vs. "Accountability" orientation. (Author)

This research concerns the level of agreement among subordinates reporting to the same leader in their descriptions of his behavior. (Available from the Comparative Administration Research Institute, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; $12.00 annually) (Author/MLF)

The object of this report is to examine the current status of the student personnel profession in the development, staffing, and administration of academic programs and to explore possible future roles for NASPA members in the academic life of their college and university communities. (Author)

Nine upper elementary teachers assigned equal numbers of children from their classrooms to three performance categories: Low Performance, Moderate Performance and High Performance. A child's teacher and his or her parent then completed structured and open-ended questions regarding the reasons why the child performed as he did. Results are…

Studies the impact of children's verbal style, age, and sex, on social perception and concludes that the speaker with a dialect most similar to the listener will be perceived as the most credible. (MH)

Students have been taught to recall specific details, but often are unable to read critically or to grasp the main ideas. (JH)

So long as arts programs restrict themselves to teaching skills of expression, they will not be considered necessary for anyone save prospective artists. The challenge is to produce a curriculum for all students in aesthetic impression--the cultivation of imagery and imagination. Aesthetic perception skills qualify as basic. (Author/SJL)

Good and poor student readers and adults read texts in normal format and with 13 spaces between words. Wide spacing improved comprehension for poor readers but did not affect their reading efficiency, while it substantially impaired the efficiency of the other groups. Text difficulty did not interact significantly with spacing. (SJL)

The role of the instructional leader is to facilitate good instruction, which necessitates characteristics and skills of a personal, professional, and managerial nature. The authors list these characteristics and skills and suggest that the real instructional leader will try to determine how his teachers perceive him in relation to these skills.…

Analyzes the physiological, acoustic, and auditory reasons for errors in the pronunciation of French nasal vowels by students, and suggests techniques for overcoming the difficulties identified. (AM)

The role of the special resource teacher can be seen as that of a consultant to the classroom teacher in increasing the teacher's awareness of his or her own problem-solving experiences with the learning disabled child. (Author/PHR)