The effects of five secondary school individualized in-service training programs on classroom reading skills instruction are compared. The initial and final perceptions of the teachers, concerning their responsibilities for providing for pupils' individual differences in reading abilities, are measured by use of attitude inventories, self-rating…

One of the several causal mechanisms for errors made by adult second language learners is interference from the native language. This paper attempts to account for the cognitive nature of interference by proposing two psycholinguistically based principles that will explain various types of production and perception errors made of second language…

This teaching guide contains part one of the four parts of the first year of the Portland Project, a three-year secondary integrated science curriculum sequence. This part involves the student in a series of activities intended to increase his understanding of his perceptual abilities and their limitations. Organization and classification as parts…

This document is comprised of papers presented at a symposium on Adult Development in Women. A paper entitled "Women in the Middle Years" reviews the major findings on adult women, and describes what an adequate theory of women in the middle years should account for. Mental health, effects of marriage, children and work, and the interrelationships…

Components of the professional role of the pharmacist were studied. Role components evaluated were people, status, and science. A questionnaire was administered to the student body of the School of Pharmacy, the University of Mississippi, for two consecutive academic years. The questionnaire is appended. (Author/MLW)

Shows that native-speaking Arabic readers produce search functions that are radically different from the search functions of readers whose script uses the Roman alphabet (RAs). The processes used by Arabic readers are more akin to the processes used by RAs when searching arrays of shapes. (Author/LMO)

Describes study of home economics students at Ohio State University that investigated whether computer animated graphics that replicate mental images of rotation and dimensional transformation would be useful in the development of spatial skills. Orthographic drawings are described, and results for treatment and control groups are analyzed. (29…

Compared family drawings of Chinese (People's Republic of China) and United States (U.S.) elementary school children. Chinese children depicted parents and grandparents more frequently, reflecting the Chinese tendency to perceive themselves as members of nuclear and extended families, whereas U.S. children expressed more individualism and…

A recent meeting of college deans revealed their major concerns to be faculty relations, how to fairly represent both the administration and the faculty, response to inappropriate faculty requests, adjusting faculty workloads fairly, getting faculty support for curriculum changes, staying current in their academic disciplines, and making career…

There is no a priori basis for assuming that theories of social psychology are universal. For theories to be universal, the meaning of the stimulus would have to be consistent across cultures, but this cannot be taken for granted. Cross-cultural variations in social behavior may be "surface" expressions of deep structure norms that are universal.…

Study evaluates 713 Chinese high school students in Hong Kong and distinguishes parental control from organization, following Moos' (1976) conceptualization. Results show both dimensions (control and organization) correlate very differently with parental warmth. Greater parental control is associated with more conflict with parents. (Author/RWB)

Results from a 1985 survey show female superintendents in only 2.4 percent of United States public school districts. A summary of interviews with women superintendents gives reasons for this underrepresentation, describes external barriers and internal constraints facing women superintendents, and offers advice to other women aspiring to the…

Reports on a study done with the intentions of determining the relative contribution of eight variables in predicting environmental behavior. Concluded that the major predictors were skill in using environmental action strategies, level of environmental sensitivity, and percieved knowledge of environmental action strategies. (TW)

Eleven special education resource teachers from seven North Carolina education agencies outlined their responsibilities in the student referral-to-placement process. Among shared responsibilities were making the initial contact with the referring teacher positive and productive, developing the individualized education program (IEP), and…

A study of the self-perceived leadership behavior and fulfillment of managerial responsibilities of department chairpersons in six Israeli universities found differences between first-time and experienced administrators in the kinds of tasks they were most likely to fulfill (technical vs. conceptual). (MSE)