Suggests that storytelling is the communicational practice used by jurors to organize information, transmit intragroup understanding and guide judgments. Explores the storytelling process for answers to questions about justice. (MH)

Details four alternative perspectives for conceptualizing the interpersonal communication process, emphasizing their implications for the theorist and researcher of interpersonal communication. (Author)

The Critical Teacher Behavior Observation Instrument is currently being tested at the University of California; its function is to help teachers increase knowledge of their teaching so they may determine what teaching skills need to be improved. (JD)

The success of higher education depends upon its steering clear of political involvements, but in Latin America this appears to be different. There institutions of higher learning are inextricably wedded to politics and political movements. This article reviews and analyzes higher education and politics in Latin America. (Author)

This study was designed to compare the effects of residential and nonresidential laboratories in transfer of training. Subjects were middle-level managers. The results indicated no differences in transfer in the two groups. Both groups underwent substantial changes in their perspective on work problems and in their use of work-related skills. (NG)

This article discusses the use of a "group helper" to minimize anxiety about audio-taping and role-playing experiences for counselor trainees. Results of this training technique are presented. (Author/HLM)

Male and female therapists read bogus case descriptions of families in which a boy or girl was depicted as athletically incompetent or obese and unattractive, and rendered judgments of mother versus father blame and treatment need. Mothers were implicated in children's psychopathologies slightly more than fathers, but less than expected. (Author)

Discusses a study designed to identify areas of research which may increase under standing of the relationship between speaker profanity and impression formation. Provides an experimental test of the predicted interrelationships between profanity, sex variables, and impression formation. (MH)

Reviews past research on the informal communication system in an organization, known as the 'grapevine', and discusses the author's research results which lend support to prior research conclusions. (MH)

This report summarizes the results of seven observation studies concerning teacher behavior, learning activities, verbal communication, the effect of teacher behavior on pupil achievement, training programs in interaction analysis, and children's interest in elementary social studies. Discussions and recommendations based on the research data are…

Observation of student teacher behavior was undertaken to determine interpretive and managerial skills necessary for adapting to the environmental demands of classrooms. The five skills isolated were (1) "chunking" (grouping discrete events), (2) differentiation (distinguishing the importance of events), (3) overlap (handling several events at…

A study analyzing the effects of communication-discrimination training (utilizing a prepared program of encounter tapes) with conventional training in communication indicated that business education students who participated in the encounter tapes program exhibited significantly better discrimination skills than the students in the conventional…

This article focuses on some of the many field observation techniques available for school counselors to use with elementary school counselors. (Author)

Discusses a study designed to specify the interpersonal communication related determinants of anomia within a close friendship context. (MH)

The authors discuss the use of the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (PONS) in measuring the ability of teachers to decode and judge nonverbal communications. (MJB)