Two studies were conducted to compare certain characteristics of high school students in Hawaii who take part in forensic activities with those not involved and also to compare groups of the forensic participants with each other. Three instruments were used: the Predisposition Toward Verbal Behavior Scale, the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations…

If research on personality is to be productive and progressive, it is necessary to make objectives explicit and to link abstractions with common experiences. Six levels of classification outline these objectives. Level 1 involves the characterization and classification of persons. Level 2 studies attributes. Level 3 is concerned with inferred…

Research has shown television characters to be overwhelmingly portrayed as sex-stereotyped. Recently, however, more unstereotyped characters have been introduced into television programming. It was hypothesized that college-age subjects, when presented with prime-time characters pre-rated as examples of stereotyped and unstereotyped portrayals,…

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE STUDENT CHANGE IN CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY, ATTITUDES IN STEREOTYPY, AND VALUE ORIENTATION WHILE IN AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. CHANGES THAT OCCURRED WITH RESPECT TO THESE THREE CHARACTERISTICS WERE EXAMINED FROM 1 YEAR TO THE NEXT FOR 4 YEARS. STUDENT BACKGROUNDS, SUBJECT INTERESTS,…

THE STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS OF DEALING WITH ADOLESCENT PROBLEMS AS A NORMAL PART OF LIFE, RATHER THAN IN TERMS OF PATHOLOGY, INCLUDE THE AIM OF INTERVENTION, THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE DESIRE FOR INTRAPSYCHIC CHANGE, THE ADOLESCENT PERSONALITY AND PROBLEMS, THE PERSON'S PERCEPTION OF HIS ROLE, THE STRUCTURE OF THE THERAPEUTIC…

SMALL-GROUP DISCUSSION, TO TRAIN MEMBERS TO WORK AS A LEARNING TEAM, WAS USED TO INVESTIGATE CHANGES IN CLOSED MINDEDNESS, ANXIETY, AND SELF CONCEPT. SEVENTEEN MALE LABOR UNION MEMBERS ENROLLED IN A TWELVE WEEK RESIDENT LABOR EDUCATION PROGRAM AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY, WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO A EXPERIMENTAL GROUP WHICH ATTENDED A TWELVE WEEK, TWO…

THIS ARTICLE AND ITS SUPPLEMENT PRESENT THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF DIFFERENCES IN VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS OF BOYS RESIDING ON FARMS, IN RURAL NONFARM AND VILLAGE AREAS, AND IN SMALL URBAN AREAS OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN. THE DATA INCLUDE SEVERAL WORK-RELATED VALUE ORIENTATIONS, AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF THE 17-YEAR…

THE FOCUS IS ON PERSONALITY TRAITS OF YOUNG CHILDREN WHO ACHIEVE IN SCHOOL DESPITE ENVIRONMENTAL HANDICAPS. THE SUBJECTS WERE TEN "GOOD" AND TEN "POOR" ACHIEVERS FROM THE FOURTH GRADE IN A SCHOOL LOCATED IN A SEVERELY DEPRESSED URBAN AREA. THE CHILDREN WERE CHOSEN ON THE BASIS OF ACHIEVEMENT SCORES AND TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS.…

GRADE REPETITION, PARTICULARLY IN THE EARLY GRADES, NOT ONLY FAILS TO HELP THE MAJORITY OF PUPILS ACADEMICALLY, BUT IN MANY CASES, CREATES ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS. FACTORS INVOLVED IN A STUDENT'S FAILURE VARY FROM SCHOOL TO SCHOOL. THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF GRADE REPETITION ARE THAT THE STUDENT IS OLDER AND LARGER THAN HIS CLASSMATES, AND THAT HIS…

CHILDREN NEED WARMTH, WHOLESOME CONDITIONS, AND AFFECTION IN ORDER TO MATURE WITH GOOD WILL, LOVE, AND RESPECT. THE MISTAKES OF PARENTS PRODUCE MANY PROBLEMS OF ADULTS AND OF THE WORLD. THERE ARE FEW PROBLEMS WHICH CANNOT BE SOLVED IF THERE IS GOOD WILL ON ALL SIDES. EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT A CHILD STARVED OF AFFECTION IS DOOMED TO AN EMOTIONALLY…

THIS PAPER PRESENTED RESULTS FROM AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF DIFFERENTIATION IN WHICH ADOLESCENTS WERE GIVEN THE TYPICAL DAY INTERVIEW. THE FOCUS OF THE INSTRUMENT WAS ON THE STUDENT'S ABILITY TO COGNITIVELY DIFFERENTIATE ASPECTS OF THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. DIFFERENTIATION WAS DEFINED AS CAPACITY TO PERCEIVE NUANCES OF PROBLEMS, PEOPLE, AND PROGRAMS…

TWO INVENTORIES (THE INTEREST ASSESSMENT SCALES AND SELECTED SCALES OF THE OMNIBUS PERSONALITY INVENTORY) AND A BACKGROUND QUESTIONNAIRE DEVELOPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY WERE ADMINISTERED TO MALE AND FEMALE JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN TRADE AND VOCATIONAL COURSES. AMONG THE NONCOGNITIVE VARIABLES COMPARED WERE SOURCES…

THIS ANECDOTAL REPORT PRESENTS SOME EXPERIENCES OF THE STUDENT TEACHERS WHO TOOK PART IN A PROJECT DEVISED TO FIND WAYS TO PREPARE STUDENT TEACHERS TO BE READY TO LEARN TO TEACH AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR STUDENT TEACHER PERIOD INSTEAD OF AT THE END. "THE PERSONALITY, TEACHER EDUCATION, AND TEACHER BEHAVIOR RESEARCH PROJECT" COMBINED A…

THE INTERACTION OF TEACHER-STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS AS RELATED TO STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT, IMPROVEMENT, AND SATISFACTION WAS EXPLORED DURING THE REPORTED RESEARCH. THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) THOSE STUDENTS WHOSE MEASURED CHARACTERISTICS ARE MOST SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE INSTRUCTOR OBTAIN THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT RATIOS, (2)…

AN INVESTIGATION OF ONE COLLEGE COMMUNITY WAS UNDERTAKEN, FOCUSING ON THE STUDENTS' VIEWS OF THE COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT, PERSONALITY NEEDS, AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, AND ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE SOME ANTECEDENT AND CONCURRENT CORRELATES OF THESE FACTORS. THE TEST INSTRUMENTS USED WERE THE "ACTIVITIES INDEX" (AI) BY STERN AND THE "COLLEGE…