Singer Vocational Evaluation Systems in use in Nova Scotia create a simulated work setting with which the individual can readily identify and experience job tasks in a noncompetitive atmosphere. Work behavior and performance are evaluated to identify what individuals can and like to do. (JOW)

The article discusses the impact of cultural pluralism (the degree of cultural differences which are fostered and encouraged by society) on teacher training and advocates a broader, empirically based approach to teacher training in the area of multicultural special education. (DLS)

Discusses the meaning of coping style and reviews research tasks which appear to be particularly sensitive measures of cross-cultural differences in active-passive coping style. (SS)

Finds that extraverted children did better than introverted children on both a nonverbal coding task and simple and complex verbal fluency tasks. Notes that anxiety influenced girls' performances on the more complex verbal fluency task, but did not alter boys' performances. Compares these findings to those of similar studies of adults. (RL)

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule was administered to three samples rural high school students. Distributions of scores were similar to Edwards' college sample, except in the area of sex differences. (JKS)

The Missouri Children's Picture Series, a nonverbal objective personality test, was administered to 119 normal elementary children and 77 institutionalized aggressive adolescents. Several of the test scales, particularly the aggression and maturity scales, differentiated significantly between the groups. IQ related to test scores only for the…

The potential educational import of noncognitive personal characteristics is examined with particular reference to problems in their measurement. Attention is drawn to some dangers and difficulties in using noncognitive measures in educational practice, and to the need for safeguards against misuse. (Author/RD)

Investigated was the hypothesis that high arousal increases processing of physical characteristics and reduces processing of semantic characteristics. While introverts and extroverts had equivalent scanning rates for physical features, introverts were significantly slower in searching for semantic features of category membership, indicating…

Two studies are reported involving psychology students rating silent videotapes of depressed and non-depressed patients on the basis of nonverbal cues alone. Reasonable correlations of ratings and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) D scale scores were found. Even without an instructional set to look for depression, valid ratings…

Based on the factorial analysis of data collected from 260 undergraduates, this study found differences in self-revealing associated with information content, target person, and sex of subject. Gilding was found to be related to self-disclosure and intimate rather than superficial information. Dogmatism did not influence either revealing or…

Focuses on a comparison of the academic achievement of groups of children in formal and informal classrooms of primary schools, the CPQ profiles of 43 pairs of children matched for sex and IQ level during their fourth academic year, and the relationship between second-order factors and selected measures of achievement in the two schools.…

Seventy elementary education majors were given the Paragraph Completion Test, the Group Embedded Figures Test, and a self-report instrument designed to measure choice of rule-example order. Results suggested that prospective teachers' choice of math rule-example order is affected by their conceptual level and field dependence-independence. (DT)

Examined the relations between parents' child-rearing style and their older adolescent children's behavior with a sample of 178 college students and their families. Found that students from Nondirective homes had significantly higher SAT scores than students from Authoritarian-Directive and Democratic homes. Students from Unengaged homes had the…

Examined effects of eight teachers' ethno-theories (beliefs and values) on interactions with their students, with two broad groupings of child temperament: difficult and easy. Found that children classified as difficult by teachers consistently gave and received from teachers more negative-valence in emotional and social behaviors than easy…

A study investigated the cognitive, academic, and personality characteristics of 75 adults with learning disabilities referred for services through the state/federal vocational rehabilitation system. Results found the subjects were homogenous relative to other groups of adults with learning disabilities, with low-average cognitive functioning and…