Results of survey by Macalester College revealed limited job opportunities for college-educated women. Indicates need for changing attitudes, among business community, college and professional personnel, and women themselves. Part three of three-part article. Other parts included same issue. (CJ)

Article is based on the writer's Ph.D. dissertation completed at the Pennsylvania State University, 1967. Research was carried out during the 1966-1967 academic year.

Results showed LD children's cognitive and affective role taking skills to be poorer than those of age-matched controls. However, performance on these tasks was not related to measures of peer domain social skills. Instead, these were found most consistently to relate to hyperactivity ratings. (Author/SEW)

A study of female high school students sought to measure role conflict among females participating in traditionally approved sports--swimming, golf, gymnastics, and tennis--and those involved in sports such as basketball and track. The females gave little evidence of internal role conflict but had experienced external sources of conflict.…

Provides a case study of Fixed Role Treatment devised to help change the construct systems underlying classroom problems of two high school English teachers. Their professional self-characterizations were analyzed and they were encouraged to adopt new roles. The nature of the classes and need for change affected improvement. (Author/JAC)

Compared the social cognitive styles of abused children with a control sample and found differences in perceived locus of control of social events and social role comprehensions. Similar trends emerged in perspective-taking skills and social sensitivity. Suggests these differences could not be attributed to IQ or class disparities. (Author)

Emphasizes the desirability of pregroup preparation to establish norms early in the life of the group. Describes three methods of preparation: (1) cognitive, (2) vicarious experience, and (3) behavioral. Discusses the effects of each method on group members. (Author/JAC)

Questionnaires administered to all 4,128 of the teaching staff at nine institutions of higher education in Australia and New Zealand received a 46 percent response rate. Significant differences between the work-related attitudes of staff at colleges and those at universities are attributed to institutional culture rather than demographic…

Responses from teachers, subject coordinators and school administrators in 23 Queensland state high schools were analyzed to ascertain the perceived importance of subject coordinators to teacher satisfaction, teacher dissatisfaction, and the learning of students in classrooms. (Author/MLW)

The author expresses some notions about school psychology and how it impinges upon his world, emphasizing that no profession can exist meaningfully today outside the context of public policy or afford to be indifferent to this fact. Some precepts are offered regarding better public policy relating to school psychology. (GK)

Seventy-one elementary and middle school principals in northern Illinois responded to a questionnaire on their backgrounds in reading instruction, their preferences for certain approaches, their duties in relation to the reading program, and their feelings of competence in these matters. Responses are collated by school size. (SJL)

Concerns types of communication strategies people choose when confronted with situations which have no model. Found that subjects (women returning to college) did not attempt to fit into the established student role. Instead, they invented various strategies and reported the "active friendly" strategy as most positively related to communication…

This essay discusses the federal role in the improvement of educational practice nationally and at the local level, the role and influence of federal or other national program evaluations on local curriculum decisions, and the differences in role perceptions between federal and local school district officials. (CT)

Explores the cognitive processes that can lead social workers to make erroneous judgements about clients, and inappropriate practice decisions. Similarities between the assessment and practice methods advocated underscore the notion of practice as a process of systematic exploration and problem solving. (Author/JAC)

Study results indicate that the ideal department administrator would be a single female of any age who had some experience at K-12 level, less than 15 years in higher education, less than 10 years of administrative experience in higher education, and on the present job less than 5 years. (Author/CM)