The criterion validity of four subscales of the Psychosocial Maturity Inventory is investigated. The subscales are Work Orientation, Self-reliance, Social Commitment, and Tolerance. Teachers were asked to nominate the three students who were "most like" and the three students who were "least like" verbal descriptions of these…

In our concern with passing on information and acquisition of specific skills, we lose sight of the essential goal of education as the improvement of the quality of life and the development of sensitive, self-actualizing individuals. As teacher educators, we must teach students a humane approach in the classroom. Through a sensitive examination of…

"Communication apprehension" is a broad-based fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons. The purpose of this paper, the fifth in a series of five dealing with communication reticence is to speculate on the causes, correlates, and effects of communication apprehension. The…

The teaching module is organized to provide students on the K-3 grade level with knowledge, skill, and understanding of self. This module, divided into four learning sequences, helps students to identify and understand feelings and responses to situations. The eight activities in learning sequence 1 identify basic feelings through verbal and…

The P-SCAP is an experimental format for verifying assessment procedures specially designed for use with retarded children. It does not measure intelligence or social learning. The resultant scores are useful only for measuring the suitability of the format and type of task for testing retarded children. These scores can determine the following:…

This paper discusses the organizational structure of religious communities and its effect on interpersonal relations. Religious communities tend to be organized structurally according to the traditional bureaucratic model of (1) relatively rigid structure; (2) carefully defined functional specialization; (3) direction and control implemented…

Current exploratory work on one element of one component of the development and evaluation of a comprehensive guidance system has been reviewed. This element, the Personal and Social Development Program (PSDP), is an attempt to assist students in the assessment and modification of their academic and interpersonal behaviors. Designed to operate…

This study investigated and compared the effectiveness of T groups and the Human Development Institute (HDI) in changing interpersonal perception styles and communication skills. In 20 hours of instruction over a ten week period, the two training conditions were systematically varied with groups of elementary school teachers differing on the…

This instructor's guide to a Teacher Corps training package is designed to assist the instructor in: (a) sensitizing the intern to the affective nature of the commitment to teacher troubled youth; (b) enabling the intern to identify and define recidivism, high mobility, confrontation with authority, and self-concept, and to describe the…

The Generic Skills project is a research study being conducted in Canada to determine those overt and covert behaviors which are fundamental to the performance of many tasks and sub-tasks performed in a wide range of occupations. Data aimed at determining the needs for adult education and training have been obtained in two surveys. In the first,…

The curriculum guide provides teaching units and activities to integrate career education concepts into the curriculum for educable mentally handicapped children in grades 7 through 12. Focused on are 16 concepts of career development such as the interrelationship between occupations and life style and between education and work. In addition, 12…

The Leadership Laboratory for Student Development program, its rationale, objectives, and evaluation findings are discussed. The Leadership Lab, created to prepare a student leader to interact with a variety of people found in the typical school setting, provides students with structured learning experiences that progress from basic communication…

Ten communication content areas comprise this program: (1) the impact of language on behavior; (2) the communication process; (3) perceptiveness; (4) understanding and clarity; (5) sharing feelings; (6) nonverbal expression; (7) emotional closeness; (8) honest yet responsible; (9) communication responses; and (10) interpersonal problem solving.…

Only by being aware of the variables present when person "A" perceives person "B" ("person perception") can the student of industrial communications effectively draw impressions of others as an interviewer. The purpose here is to summarize pertinent research findings on person perception and to illuminate their utility to the interviewer. The…

Performance objectives related to occupational, social, communication, and daily living skills are specified for trainable mentally handicapped students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Each skill area is broken down into four to seven component units (number of objectives for each unit is noted in parentheses): manual activities (10), work…