Concludes that many interracial contact situations that are perceived as being of equal status by whites are not perceived in the same manner by blacks, suggesting a modification of the traditional equal status contact hypothesis as well as having direct implications for policy making in school desegregation. (Author/AM)

The authors present some recommendations that would enhance a residence hall worker's capacity to make effective referrals. They suggest that roles be clearly defined, that the resident worker know the receiving professionals, that training occur for the resident workers, and that referrals be concrete and specific. (Author/EJT)

The first author gives his impression of the middle-aged, middle-income father's perceptions about his role, based or informal questioning of 30 such people and finds them generally optimistic. The second article takes issue with both the type of study and the meaningfulness of the findings. (NG)

Osipow's 1962 study was extended so that a sample of 173 subjects consisting of school students, university students and teachers provided ratings on the semantic differential for each of nine jobs. Results provided evidence to support that occupational information influenced occupational perceptions. (Author)

A Deputy Headteacher Role Definition Instrument was employed to discover the conceptions of primary school heads and deputy heads in regard to the allocation of certain school leadership functions: instrumental leadership, expressive leadership, and administration. (Author)

Discusses the conflicting roles of the various actors involved in curriculum development and suggests several strategies for resolving the power struggle that presently characterizes curriculum development. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20006, single copies,…

The responsibilities of university presidents and board chairs have evolved significantly from the early days of public higher education. There was a time when the power of the board was absolute, but those days are long gone, and it remains an open question whether the structures of public boards have kept pace with the complex social…

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)…

It's not enough to learn the skills, faculty members discovered; they had to develop, internalize, and learn to project a different kind of role model for their students. In this document, eight teaching approaches are outlined, and the difficulties involved in role change for both students and faculty are explored. (Author)

The author sanctions the involvement of student personnel workers not only in facilitating individual development but in building curriculum and improving methods of instruction. To build a development team of faculty and student personnel workers, he suggests alterations in administrative structure, equal involvement in campus decision-making,…

Discusses the objectives and presents instructional materials for a course entitled Women in American Literature'' which attempts to introduce students to the concept of alternative life styles for American women. (RB)

Article discusses the organization, Women on Words and Images, which set out to influence publishers to find a reading study series that did not inhibit the development of children by depicting males and females as being capable of performing only in roles narrowed according to their sex. (Author/RK)

Discusses how the minority school administrator should go about defining his role in the social and power structure of an integrated school, emphasizing that if he defines his role as that of minority expert'' then he is assigning himself a very peripheral position with respect to decision-making. (JM)

Summarizes and synthesizes several papers on attribution theory by the author: attribution theory, which concerns how people make causal explanations, has developed within social psychology primarily as a means of dealing with questions of social perception. (JM)