In this article, the authors examine which nontechnical competencies or soft skills related to technology education should be developed by high school students. Results clearly indicate that university-level engineering and engineering technology professors rate students' interpersonal, communication, and work ethic competencies as desired…

Metacognitive and attitudinal factors in the academic performance of college students with and without disabilities were assessed and compared. GPA, metacognitive knowledge and practice, resiliency, self-efficacy, locus of control, and need for achievement were examined. Similarities as well as notable differences were found between the LD (N=27)…

Research showing that activation of negative stereotypes can impair the performance of stigmatized individuals on a wide variety of tasks has proliferated. However, a complete understanding of the processes underlying these stereotype threat effects on behavior is still lacking. The authors examine stereotype threat in the context of research on…

At Colorado College, the energy retrofit of a building is used as a service-learning research project to teach physics and chemistry in a variety of courses. In introductory courses for nonscience majors, the project helps students appreciate the scientific method and quantitative reasoning. Within the physical-chemistry course, students see that…

The Re:Membering Fatherhood Program is designed for men wanting to address and improve their fathering experience. The primary focus is to enhance the personal parenting capacity of each individual, not to develop or inculcate a specific set of parenting skills. This exploratory study evaluated the efficacy of an eight-week, manualized…

A discussion of the essential elements for affective learning assessment. (HB)

The author defines and discusses the humanist perspective. How a humanist would examine paintings and the value of the humanist perspective in society today are among the topics presented. Availability information is given in SO 504 095. (Author/RM)

A study investigated the affective influence of the traditional textbook approach on students in an Educational Foundations Course at Iowa State University, and also evaluated their attitude toward teaching as a career. The changes were measured by an evaluative form of the semantic differential consisting of 12 philosophical, sociological, and…

The present report summarizes the major findings of the Personal Values Project being conducted at the University of Minnesota for the past six years. A number of studies have been completed dealing with various groups of individuals in diverse organizational settings (managers, educational administrators, union leaders and naval officers). These…

Results showed the relation between an experiment with only positive estimations of emotional terms and one that included negative similarity estimations of emotional terms. Negative similarities were found to have been represented mainly as zero ratings when only a positive scale was available for the subjects to rate the words. (Author/BJG)

It was hypothesized that depressives would rate death-related events as more aversive than control groups. Ratings of aversiveness were obtained from depressed patients. Results indicated death-related events do not have a special valence for depressed individuals. Rather, depressives manifest a general tendency towards evaluating potential…

Infants who cried in response to a reward shift evidenced no retention of the contingency 1 week later but did have excellent retention at one day. Reactivation treatment alleviated forgetting at three weeks. Results indicate that crying in response to violation of a reward-expectation habit functions as an amnesic agent to produce accelerated…

Provides evidence (based on observations at an environmental center) which suggests that frequent interaction with a variety of animals provides humans with a form of sensitivity awareness training such that they become more aware of communication on many levels and more finely attuned to feedback sent and received. (JN)

If a quick-tempered student is helped to deal with anger, she or he has learned an important lesson. Sixteen strategies to teach self-control are presented and discussed. (MT)

Based on the typology of C. G. Jung, the authors conducted survey research on two populations of third, fourth, and fifth graders. Findings suggest that gifted students are predominantly intuitors and that in decision making there is a surprisingly high degree of feeling involved in terms of student attention to information processing. (Author/CL)