Confirmed the hypothesis that women in female career-planning groups would be more able to make career decisions than women in sexually mixed groups, using high school students as the sample. The design called for three groups: one group included only women and two groups included men and women. (Author)

Seventeen suggestions for making meetings productive. (MLF)

In this study, the importance of decision rule (consensus vs majority) and decision consequences (high vs low) are examined in terms of the sex composition of group membership. The results showed male-female differences not accounted for by decision rule, decision consequence, or post-test change. (Author/WI)

Young women in service academies such as the Coast Guard Academy can break down the deep-rooted and still powerful sex stratification system only if they can break down the stereotypic, "exceptional woman" mechanisms that neutralize their achievements. To do this, they will have to be admitted in larger numbers. (Author/WI)

READI is an acronym for reflection, exploration, alternatives, demonstration, and introspection. These are key words to help persons use a period of silence in an individualized way. The period of silence provides time for them to collect their own thoughts following a question for which divergent thinking is appropriate. (Author)

Using 144 high school physics classes as units of analysis, class means on a battery of 57 variables were factored in three different factor sets. Each set included three main factors which could be identified roughly as achievement, affect, and group structure. Results gave further credibility to Bales' work. (Author/KR)

This study of Mexicano resistance against coercive identity formation (schooled ethnicity) in a small south Texas town focuses on a particular facet of ethnic selfhood: awareness of the self as a social power wielder. (Author)

Author presents a model for describing membership in groups in which the individual actively seeks a member relationship. (Author/PD)

This study is necessarily exploratory with regard to action-oriented dimensions in educational contexts. Author hypothesizes that those subjects rated most highly functioning on selected dimensions will be rated as making the most significant contribution to learning of other group members. Those rated least effective will be least helpful in…

This research reports the relationship between supervisory performance of eight leadership functions and group performance in 43 library work units. These eight functions can be used as a guide to future research designed to identify additional leadership functions. (Author/RK)

This review examines published research on small-group development done in the last ten years that would constitute an empirical test of Tuckman's hypothesis that groups go through the stages of "forming,""storming,""norming," and "performing." A fifth stage, "adjourning," was added to the…

Instead of presenting an introductory lecture to a training course, the trainer should neutralize any incipient teacher-pupil relationship, begin to form a class community, correct any nonproductive learning agenda that trainees may have, and encourage trainees to formulate their own incourse and postcourse objectives. (MF)

Bureaucratic work situations, particularly those with commercial goals, rationalize not only people's work tasks, but their social demeanor and behavior. This study examines the impact of such rationalization of appearance and interaction on clerical workers in several branches of a large bank. (Author/AM)

Notes that the relationship between Jewish and black intellectuals and artists is, on the one hand, a reflection of the relationship between blacks and whites in America. (Author)