Reports a study intended both to determine disadvantaged children's concern with and emphasis on the social issues in their environment, and also to examine the extent to which opinion prejudice and race prejudice affect these children's belief systems. (Author/JM)

Students showed no significant agreement with any of the other rating groups regarding least effective teachers. Students' judgments were related to class level and self-reported academic achievement suggesting that teacher evaluations represent a complex interactional process necessitating the specification of rater characteristics. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether recent social changes and consequent malintegration with regard to sex roles have created stressful repercussions for men as well as for women; nearly one third of the men interviewed experienced some anxiety over their perceived failure to live up to the norm of masculine intellectual…

Paper presented at the 2nd Oticongress, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 27 - March 3, 1972. (VM)

Recommends that art projects for children encourage the opportunity to look.'' (DS)

The point of this paper is that the who he is,'' or the adolescent's sense of identity, is disturbed because the what he does'' is not culturally valued. (Author/CB)

Consensus about the differing characteristics of men and women exists across groups differing in sex, age, marital status, and education: postiviely-valued masculine traits form a cluster entailing competence; positively-valued feminine traits reflect warmth-expressiveness. (Author/JM)

Employees should assume accountability for self development through their own informal but intelligent reading programs. A framework for such reading, which is based on an analysis of job content is presented here, together with some suggestions as to where to begin reading. (Editor)

Factor analyses of males' and females' reports of maternal and paternal behaviors yielded the same three factors as earlier studies--Acceptance versus Rejection, Psychological Autonomy versus Psychological Control, and Firm Control versus Lax Control. (Authors)

Seventeen reading readiness variables appraising a variety of perceptual, learning, cognitive, memory, and language abilities were evaluated as predictors of reading achievement for 94 educable mentally retarded and 78 nonretarded children. (Author)

Paper reports an attempt to identify the amount and level of information that can be usefully imparted in thirty-minute broadcasts. (Author)

Author reports an attempt to find a more comprehensive basis for tests of musical talent by considering musical performance to be highly dependent on auditory perceptual ability. (Author/MB)

Cumulative evidence obtained from this and other studies suggests that perceptual training to attend to shape and object contours will affect representational drawing. (Authors/MB)