This article discusses the changing status of women in society, together with the social and traditional obstacles to their self actualization in the realm of professional opportunity. (CJ)

Business educators can guide potentially successful people into office occupations by being familiar with job design, job satisfaction, and clerical aptitudes. Teachers can also play a role in the development of satisfying office jobs and of personal selection criteria. (SK)

The need to use images and imagery in language in schools, and to recognize and measure such aptitudes are discussed. Tests of imagination are presented, and the San Francisco Art Institute Study of predictors of ability in art illustrates methods and implications for measurement of creativity in educational programs. (CM)

Teachers' views concerning occupations appropriate for visually impaired print and braille readers were studied, based on surveys conducted at two North American schools for the blind. The teachers tended to hold the stereotyped ideas that blind people are good musicians, are good with their hands, or should be in a profession. (SEW)

In terms of second-language learning, examines: (1) What is the significance, educational and statistical, of the performance difference between field-dependent and field-independent students? and (2) Does the learner's cognitive style interact with other factors in the learning situation, such as the teacher's cognitive style, to affect…

How children acquire language is a riddle for developmental linguists and the subject of debate among them. Some linguists argue that children acquire language through a universal process regardless of their native tongues. Evidence of the innateness of language capacity has also appeared in studies of deaf children. (Author/JN)

Whether differences in aptitude and experiences explain sex differences in proportional reasoning is examined. Subjects were pupils in grades seven, nine, and 11 from three school districts. Results indicated proportional reasoning occurs infrequently for both sexes, with males performing slightly better. Aptitude and experience measures did not…

Career guidance testing should clarify options for career exploration, claim the authors. They suggest three criteria for tests used in career counseling, note recent applications of the criteria in commercially available tests, and advocate use of the "Counselor's Guide to Vocational Guidance Instruments" by guidance personnel seeking suitable…

Discusses the development of a language aptitude test designed to help select students to study German. Four areas of assessment are memory ability, ability to deal with stress and intonation patterns, inductive reasoning ability, and ability to recognize grammatical case. (EKN)

Considers forecasts of A-Level results made by teachers for candidates for a Management Sciences university course. The forecasting mechanism is found to be accurate but some conclusions which are important for university selection can be made. (Author)

Chairpersons rated GRE test scores lowest of all the criteria for both admission and granting assistantships. Lack of specificity for the speech communication discipline and resulting lower validity were strongest criticisms. Available from Editor, ACA, Speech Communication Association, 5105 Backlick Road, Suite E, Annandale, VA 22003; sc $6.00.…

This chapter helps the general reader to understand the test equating issues associated with test disclosure. It also helps the testing practitioner to recognize situations in which equating is necessary, and to understand how to accomplish various kinds of equating. (Author/BW)

The utility of raw gain analysis for validation of college placement tests is demonstrated with scores from the Descriptive Test of Mathematics Skills. Gains during one semester for students in various freshman level mathematics courses were evaluated. Results suggest that gain analysis is a useful tool for placement test validation. (Author/MLW)

A study was conducted to see if junior college and high school students do as well in learning elementary accounting through an individualized self-paced approach as through the traditional teacher-led method. (CT)