Results of the study showed that role playing was no more effective than the control procedure. Subjects reported counselors' activities had little or no effect on their decision to initiate action. (Author)

The administration of and student response to a behavioral analysis required of 170 students (steadily dating to engaged) enrolled in the preparation for marriage course at East Carolina University during the academic year 1969-70 are discussed. (Author)

Attempts to analyze a time-series pattern of achievement on selected intelligence, aptitude and achievement tests, of slow sections of tenth grade biology classes grouped upon the basis of previous school achievement. (Author/CP)

Sex appears to be a relevant variable in the selection of self-regulated study in a college course in introductory psychology. (Author)

America's wars, its governmental policies, and its disputes on campus are guided on both sides by a myth with deep roots in American culture. (Editor)

Many schools are assuming responsibility for educating their students about drugs. Here is how one Los Angeles high school provided this service. (Author)

The article deals with the use of psychiatry as a disciplinary and controlling agent in the case of dissident students. Campus psychiatry is associated with administrative techniques of control rather than with the exploration and liberation of the private person. (AD)

The results indicate that the activists studied were neither aggressive nor oversensitive. They appear to be students who have achieved success in the academic milieu, who appear interested in maintaining that success, and whose personalities and experiences have led them to believe they should have a role in affecting their environment.…

A general social class trend has been observed in the practices and attitudes of college students regarding sexual permissiveness, smoking, and drug usage. Of the socioeconomic classes examined, practices and attitudes appeared to be most liberal in the upper class, and most conservative in the lower middle class. (Author)

Describes an experiment designed to compare different behaviors exhibited by second grade teachers and pupils using the Science - A Process Approach program to a comparison group of teachers and pupils. Includes and analysis of 12 teacher and 10 student behavioral factors. (PR)

Adolescents are considered in their two early stages, early and middle, and the specific neds of these age groups are related to the social organization of the school. In particular, the size of the school, the change in ages of children from school to school, the structure of groups are considered. Necessary changes, if there is to be improvement…

Describes how proper pairing of students and teachers by belief systems can develop student attitudes that foster openness, sensitivity to change, the ability to withstand stress, and to behave adaptively, flexibly, and creatively. Four belief systems are described and suggestions made for meeting the individual needs of these four behavior types.…

It is a mistake to allow students to decide what they are going to learn and the type of environment in which they will be educated. Today's schools need a strict discipline policy. (CK)

Research supported by the U.S. Office of Education.