A multiple discriminant analysis was used to classify students in education, law, medicine, engineering, and business on the basis of preadolescent development data. Increased attention to preadolescent development as predictive of career preference is indicated. (Author)

There are certain dimensions that a group or group experience can be discriminated upon - in which you can make your own independent evaluations in regard to it being a plus or minus group. If you are in a field which utilizes and employs training groups then you owe it to yourself and to others to make these discriminations. (Author)

Through the YMCAs in the United States, more than 7,000 teen agers have participated in sensitivity training experiences. Interactional programs using sensitivity training with teen agers have been introduced, and the results are sufficiently positive in the YMCA to warrant wider exploration with this type of program for young people. (Author)

This paper is intended to promote serious and deep reflection on the desirability of applying the concept of encounter to education. (AN)

The author addresses himself to the nature and context of the intense demand for renewal in educational administration. (Editor)

Outlines some of the important educational developments of a parent's gifted child. (RA)

The problems encountered in trying to identify gifted and creative students. (RA)

The author integrates three sets of ideas related to consulting with teachers: behavior modification, the helping relationship, and the processes and skills of problem solving. (Author)

Results of previous studies that have used graduation from college as a criterion for evaluating the effects of counseling and have yielded findings that favor counseled students cannot be attributed to a particular configuration of personality characteristics nor can they be attributed to the absence of pathology in the successful counseled…

The student life studies described proved to have a positive impact, particularly in moving towards the goal of developing a climate of awareness on the campus so that students, faculty and administration may together understand more clearly the variables in the university learning environment. (Author)

Personal evaluation of the use of a personal diary to identify conscious learning. (RB)