Suggests use of questions as instructional tools. Provides guidelines for devising effective questions and handling responses to questions. To evaluate the program, the author advises the trainer to consider content, methods, presentation, time, and atmosphere. Also reviews self-evaluation techniques and forms. (CSS)

In order to gain a better understanding of the way students analyze and interpret experience, this research incorporates a cognitive dimension into the analysis of classroom discourse. Monitors both the levels of thinking of individual students and their social interactions during discussion in formal and informal classroom contexts. Results…

This article presents a brief overview of Gestalt theory, the group interventions utilized to experiment with interpersonal contact in a conference workshop along with their theory base, an evaluation of the workshop, and some experimental ideas and recommended activities that group leaders may want to incorporate into similar interpersonal…

Ethnographically discovered role conceptions that the deaf have of hearing people can be characterized as three destinctive patterns or types. Until deafness is understood as a social phenomena, distorted communicative situations will occur between the deaf and the hearing. Instances of distorted communication are cited. (SW)

This study reveals significant differences in the organization of play between the sexes. The primary difference concerns the complexity of the social setting in which play occurs. (Author/AM)

The author examines: (1) the relationship between individual family member self-concept and the communication patterns of parents and their adolescents; and (2) sex differences in communication patterns and self-concepts pertaining to intra-family relationships. (MJB)

A series of interrelated studies describe the scale development and empirical validation of the Health Resources Inventory, a teacher measure of primary-grade children's competency-related behavior. The HRI discriminated between normal and disturbed children, and in a more stringent validity test, sensitively differentiated competence levels…

The relative influence of counselor status on subjects' perceptions of the counselor was examined. Counselor behavior produced a main effect on each of the six dependent measures, while counselor introduction produced a main effect on only Counselor Competence and Counselor Comfort. Implications are discussed. (Author)

The relationship between social skills and group psychotherapy is assessed. No evidence is found that high or low socially skilled subjects differ in verbal behavior in analogue groups. No evidence was found correlating overall adjustment and group participation. (MFD)

Discusses a study designed to explore behavior changes in subjects' performances as a function of evaluative feedback and examines the relations between judgements of physical attractiveness and social competence. (MH)

Available from: Special Education in Canada, Dave Muir, Subscription Manager, 12 Doucett Place, Scarborough, Ontario M1G 3M2. Five affective educational resources are described for teachers. (CL)

This study deals with self-disclosure in the high school years. Students were administered a modified form of the Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnaire, and asked to indicate the extent to which they had made themselves known to significant others about various aspects of their lives. (Author)

There is value in learning how to learn from the expressive dimension of one's contacts with others--not in order to contrive an expressive tactic to mislead others, but to understand what it means to be oneself. (MJB)

Qualities needed in the future-oriented person include skills in deciding, becoming involved, and peopling, or reaching out to others in time and space. Procedures for developing these future-oriented qualities in educational settings are presented. Learning environments that will facilitate achievement of these curricular goals are described.…