The different methods used in the "folklorization" of the story of Jose Mosqueda, a noted outlaw, are discussed. (NQ)

An operant procedure which is potentially useful for testing auditory deficits was used with a 26-month-old nonverbal retarded female. (Author)

Describes a mystery tunnel, constructed by teachers, which provides a variety of non-visual, sensory experiences for children as they crawl through it. It is designed to help primary children develop basic abilities to use their own senses to better observe, discriminate among observations, and describe their own perceptions accurately. (JR)

This study aims to determine whether trait categories are generally perceived as more applicable to others than to self. Subjects described themselves and two acquaintances on trait checklists, indicating not only placement on trait continuum but also perceived consistency of trait-related behavior. Positive, negative, and neutral traits were…

Cooperating teachers and college faculty were surveyed to determine (1) the role in field experiences which cooperating teachers presently perform, (2) the role they would perform in an ideal state, (3) discrepencies between supervisory faculty and cooperating teacher perceptions, and (4) replicability of the findings in another geographic area.…

The Inventory of Pre-Marital Conflict (IPMC) is a systematic procedure for the diagnosis and assessment of pre-marital conflict and related issues. The self-report component of the IPMC involves a series of 18 hypothetical conflict situations. The individual responds to each of these by evaluating who is primarily responsible for the problem, and…

The community mental health center was the research setting for the development of an organizational climate questionnaire. Initially, a Q-Sort technique was applied to a large pool of items derived from existing climate questionnaire statements and interviews with mental health professionals. The item pool was administered to 440 mental health…

The framework for public school social workers offered in this article is based on the systems approach. The ideas presented might also be useful to social workers in general, and to secondary school social workers in particular. The article deals with the idea of a boundary, which is a line forming a circle around selected variables.…

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of distinguishing various aspects of masculinity and feminity in the study of sex roles among adolescents. Subjects, a national sample of boys and girls aged 12-16, were individually administered direct questions, checklists, rating scales, and symbolic and projective items. Results were as follows: (1) finer…

The model of sentence perception proposed by Fodor, Bever and Garrett (1974) emphasizes the importance of grammatical cues signalling clause boundaries, and suggests that segmentation of a sentence into clauses precedes computation of the internal structure of those clauses. However, this model has nothing to say about the many sentences in which…

The purpose of this study was to attempt to train the horizontality concept in a group of first graders who were non-operational on the horizontality concept but transitional on what Piaget has termed the precursor concepts of distance and length conservation. There were two groups of subjects (training and control), all of whom had failed a…

Personnel at Saint Louis University's Department of Education have been theorizing, researching, and enlarging an approach to program evaluation that focuses heavily on the place of values in making judgments. This work originally stemmed from general curriculum evaluative theory developed by James H. McElhinney and Richard C. Kunkel. The content…

This study evaluates the effects of a six-week intensive course on Counseling Women upon attitudes toward the rights and roles of women. The experimental group consisted of 12 students enrolled in this course. The comparison group consisted of 12 students enrolled in a different course, Introduction to Pupil Personnel Services, within the same…