The purpose of this study was to identify factors responsible for the perceived decline in attitudes toward science observed in an intervention study designed to enhance scientific literacy. The literacy study focuses on a new freshman course in an urban Catholic high school. Negative attitudes toward science were found to be related to the demand…

A description is given of the Teacher Enhancement Program developed by the University of New Mexico in conjunction with the Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public Schools. In developing this program, designed to discover and address the needs of mid-career teachers, the developers first examined the rationale behind preservice and first-year supervision…

The first (containing chapters 1 through 5) of two volumes begins a review of research regarding educational programming for bilingual handicapped students. The following major topics are addressed: (1) demography (socioeconomic ties, geographic location/residential patterns); (2) assessment (legal mandates, nondiscriminatory assessment); (3)…

Learner and program control of content review within computer assisted instruction (CAI) were studied to determine their effects on the posttest performance and attitudes of eighth grade students. The science-related instructional treatments were completed by 98 students who were blocked by gender and reading ability and randomly assigned to…

Because of increases in life expectancy and early retirement, the quality of life during retirement is of concern to many people. Previous research has found that health and adequate income have consistently been related to life satisfaction during retirement. Several satisfaction measures were administered to a group of 55 retired coal miners.…

This review of the literature related to counseling women, based on a computer search of the ERIC database, emphasizes the need for decision-making skills to cope with social change and the women's movement. The influence of locus of control on decision-making is reviewed along with theories about motivational factors for women and students. Role…

Three studies that measured the extent to which college students differed in the amount of control they experienced in situations relating to nuclear war and in ordinary life situations such as school, community, and home are described. In the first study, 91 college-level psychology students viewed the television film "The Day After,"…

Self-esteem of female college students at two large state universities was studied, with attention to the relationship of self-esteem to the choice of traditional or nontraditional careers, or homemaking. A second area of interest was the relationship of career maturity and locus of control to career type. A total of 180 freshmen and senior…

A study examined the effects of locus of control and sex role orientation on career maturity and also the correlation between level of career maturity and level of femininity. The study sample consisted of 61 undergraduate junior and senior women from a large southwestern university. Half of them were married, and their average length of work…

The results of an investigation of the relationship between the constructs of creativity and locus of control (LOC) in junior high school students are reported. Two hypotheses were studied: that creativity and intervality would be positively correlated, and an intervention including creativity training would result in significant gains in the…

Forty subjects who had previously been identified for internal/external locus of control characteristics read a case history that was manipulated to reflect either persuasive or coercive influence strategies. The subjects then completed five seven-point scales that measured the extent to which they approved or disapproved of the means of influence…

A set of prevalent emotions, including pity, anger, guilt, pride (self-esteem), gratitude, and resignation, shares a common characteristic, i.e., causal attributions appear to be sufficient antecedents for their elicitation. Research in the field of emotions has shown that the underlying properties or dimensions of attributions are the significant…

The faculty of graduate programs are often concerned with factors associated with students' successful completion of graduate school. Causal attributions are one type of perception relevant to satisfaction with graduate school, and attribution theory suggests other variables that may affect graduate student satisfaction. The relationships among…

Although research has supported the relationship between locus of control and personal adjustment, many correlates of locus of control differ for males and females. Three samples of undergraduates completed the Reid-Ware Three-Factor Locus of Control Scale and either the Texas Social Behavior Inventory (N=64 males and 211 females), the Barron ego…

Two experiments involving 49 male and 49 female college students were conducted to determine the effects of physician physical attractiveness on the patients' disclosures of personal information (symptoms). In the first experiment, subjects rated pictures of physicians for physical attractiveness and reported their willingness to disclose and…