A total of 207 educable mentally retarded students was involved in this study. Investigated was the effects of the Elementary Science Study Curriculum (ESS) on selected science skills including communicating, observing and inferring. Multivariate analysis revealed that the ESS group performed significantly better than did the non-ESS group. (HM)

This article focuses on one principal's efforts to cope with a conflict situation involving a teacher and to confront his own limitations in perspective and role. The story unfolds through his own narrative, commentary on that narrative, and dialogue with a consultant. (Author/DS)

Two hundred thirty-seven Canadian college students participated in a study of the correlation between teacher ratings and academic achievement. This relationship varied according to students' belief about lecturer experience. Lecturer quality had a much greater effect on the ratings than on student achievement. (Author/GDC)

A discrepancy score evaluation technique was successfully implemented in California, thereby allowing parents, teachers, and students to provide information regarding the students' needs. However, the same method failed in American Samoa due to the parents' perceptions of teachers as experts and the amount of teacher time necessary for…

Regardless of the direction of pupils' preferences (humanistic or custodial) the more closely pupils' perceptions of their teachers' actual behavior approximated their conception of ideal teacher behavior, the more positive were their attitudes toward teacher and school. (Author)

Suggests that women's roles can be developed through the initiatives of national organizations that will reinforce existing avenues leading to better understanding of, and social change for, the women of today and tomorrow. (TA)

This research showed high assertive and low assertive resident assistants could be differentiated on the basis of their effectiveness as judged by dormitory residents. Results show high assertive assistants are significantly more open and honest, communicate better, handle discipline better, and are generally more effective than their low…

This replication of a 1971 study compared students' and parents' attitudes toward 32 issues of university life. The results indicate that there was little change in the attitudes of students and parents over the four-year period since the first study. Basic areas of agreement and disagreement between students and parents remained. (Author)

A review of the research indicates that Fernald's technique (VAKT) for learning to read and spell is effective in some, but not all, instances. (MKM)

Allied health occupations have so expanded in number and in scope of services in one decade that they are now essential to modern medical care. The growth and optimal use of all health care personnel is related to the way in which allied health personnel will be used in the future. This paper focuses on some of the issues confronting the allied…

The author discusses the inaccuracy and handicap of the Bob Hartley image of the counseling psychologist. He discusses expanding this image along several dimensions: flexible use of time, use of different settings, greater use of groups, a wider variety of methods and helpers, counselor initiative, team cooperation, and specialization. (Author/JEL)

Principles of the International Labour Organization Workers' Education Program and the role of university-centered labor education are outlined, involving collaboration between trade unions and universities in providing courses to promote the collective advancement of labor. (MF)

The amount of time devoted to seven professional activities by 15 school psychologists during a six-week period was compared with the perceived involvement in these activities of teachers. Teachers were found to be unaware of the service priorities of psychologists in their schools. (Author)

Chicano and Anglo perceptions of the university environment were compared on the seven scales of CUES II. Of the seven scales, only one, the practicallity scale, reached the level of significance, with the Chicano group scoring significantly higher. None of the other F statistics approached the level of significance. (Author)