The concept of career education is not at present generally accepted or put into practice except by a minority of British schools. Career guidance in private agencies is crisis-oriented; in industry it is still a dream. However, there is a growing interest in career guidance in higher education and industry. (KP)

This study describes effects of a workshop on attitudes about evaluation among practitioners and students in college personnel work. Influences of the workshop on subsequent behavior were also explored. Significant changes in certain beliefs and attitudes were found, but workshop influence on subsequent behavior was not strongly supported. (Author)

A model of psychological treatment increasing internality and regaining control over stressful environments was tested among college students. The two experiments assessed: (1) the locus of control regarding recent events and individual characteristics; and (2) the locus of control and manifest anxiety at pretreatment and posttreatment. Results…

This is an investigation of relationships between characteristics of lawyers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers and criteria employed in child custody legal proceedings. Findings reveal disciplinary distinctions, equity for mother and father, and influence from demographic variables regarding preference for criteria to be applied…

Presents a proposal that student affairs professionals seize the opportunity to become instructional experts. (Author)

The Speech Perception in Noise Test was administered to nine native-Mexican Spanish-speaking adults who learned English either before age 6 or after age 14 and nine monolingual American-English adults. Levels of noise at which speech was intelligible were significantly higher and the benefit from context was significantly greater for monolinguals…

Examines to what extent constructivist theory explains interactions that occurred during group work on a teacher education project in foreign languages. Content analysis was used to examine dialog journals and self-reports on the group process and on each student's role in the group. Findings address division of labor, role taking, desire for…

Campus activities programmers are encouraged to balance roles by: remembering their time is valuable; accepting their own imperfection; saying "no" when necessary; taking care of themselves; learning to request help and delegate; giving best time and energy to what matters most; focusing on life's positives; developing support systems; keeping a…

Defines creativity, recognizing both developmental continuities and discontinuities. Also distinguishes between creative interpretation and cognitive restructuring, emphasizing transformational abilities, and between perceptual and discretionary cognitive processes. (DR)

Emphasizes that auditory lexical decision has wide applicability and that the paradigm is currently used to study basic processes in word recognition, the nature of the mental lexicon, effects of word frequency, neighbor effects and various other phenomena of isolated word perception. Article reviews the strengths and weaknesses of this task. (54…

Examined adolescents' perceptions of variables at three levels of the family system in relation to four dimensions of adolescent empathy. Results show that gender, family cohesion, parental support, self-esteem, and communicative responsiveness were related to empathic concern. Personal distress, perspective taking, and fantasy were also…

Three experiments obtained same-different judgments from children and adults to trace normal development of local and global processing of hierarchical visual forms. Findings indicated that reaction time was faster on global trials than local trials; bias was stronger in children and diminished to adult levels between ages 10 and 14. Reaction time…

Discusses the effect of media reinforcement of the inaccurate stereotype that bright students are socially inept and "nerdy". Lists addresses for television show producers so readers may protest the negative stereotyping of bright students and scientists. (AIM)

Questions the existence of distinctions based solely on the gender of the speaker or hearer in Native American languages. Analyzes conversations from field work and notes that both male and female speakers sometimes use the deictics considered appropriate to the other sex and that deictics accomplish more than indicating the gender of the speaker.…

Factor analysis of survey data from 209 administrators and 384 faculty at six Tennessee state universities identified six distinctive attitudes concerning research orientation; teaching orientation; rewards influence research; rewards influence teaching; personal interest; and mission of the university. Analysis revealed that administrators…