Studies were made of (1) young children's use of body-weight type for processing information about peers, and (2) the development of children's stereotypical knowledge about characteristics associated with body-weight type. For the first study, a measure was developed to assess "body salience," or the degree to which children use weight…

Students attending predominantly white colleges are more likely than those attending black colleges to see competition with other students and inadequate high school preparation as sources of academic difficulties. (Author/AM)

Traces the secularlization of legal education, since the mid-19th century, contending that the results are a loss of scholarship in the neglect of the sources of the law and a deleterious effect on the attitudes of law students and teachers concerning their role in society and the nature of their profession. (JT)

Poor communication with clients, role clashes with cottage youth leaders, and excessive limitations imposed by institution administrators characterized problems of an institution for juveniles which caused disillusionment of social workers. Nevertheless, some social workers succeeded in establishing rapport with clients and developing programs…

Reports on a study that measured the perception of media staff, teachers, and students concerning services received from the elementary media center. (Author/PF)

Discussed are the effects of sexist cultural norms and stereotypes that cause gifted girls to believe they must choose between femininity and intellectual achievement. (LH)

There has been a movement nationally over past several decades to integrate technology into extent curriculum. This is true both at the K-12 level and in higher education. The purpose of this study is to show what role science education has played in this effort (i.e., what documents, research or associations provide positions on technology usage)…

A course is described which altered the traditional physician-dominated teaching pattern and allowed nurses to help teach potential physicians. Provided by staff nurses from various agencies and a university school of nursing, "Introduction to Nursing" for first-year medical students taught patient care from a nurse's perspective. (Author/AJ)

The study develops and measures a concept of Work-Role Centrality, mainly from a cognitive perspective, and examines by means of questionnaire data its distribution in a representative sample of 778 males participating in the labor force in Israel. (Author)

This study on evaluation of university supervisors of student teachers is based on the work of Lee Goldsberry (1989). Goldsberry describes different roles that student teacher supervisors can take, focusing on the function of supervision itself. One of these roles has, as a primary purpose, maintaining a facade that supervision is being practiced.…

This study combined data from two random, representative samples of national organizations of psychotherapists to assess the plausibility of predictions derived from a social role model regarding gender stereotypes for women and men of different ages. Broverman's Sex-Role Stereotype Questionnaire (SRSQ) was completed by 322 clinical members of the…

Intended for faculty, staff, and volunteers who represent an institution of higher education in student recruiting efforts, the handbook offers guidelines for counseling college-bound young people as well as practical suggestions for everyday problems encountered when "on the road." Individual chapters are as follows: "Your Role as an Outreach…

This study examined work and non-workplace sources of stress in the lives of women (N=403) currently employed as health-care providers. Female licensed practical nurses and social workers were sampled because they met the three criteria determined upon for the study; that is, they were all in high-stress occupations; women predominate in those…

Music education students appear to acquire an identity as a "musician" which they seem to construct as having the core meaning "performer." This paper addresses the question of the individual student's search for a clear identity in the dichotomy between the concept of "teacher" and that of "musician." The…