The cause underlying the shocking behavior of a university president during a campus crisis is revealed in nine letters. Suggested reading for university administrators. (WM)

Ratings on a statement-of-functions (adapted from Brown and Pruett, 1967) by three groups of college students indicate some disagreement on which personnel within a school should perform 20 out of 70 functions. Data table included. (CJ)

Adolescents in a technological society are shown to be ignored and abandoned. While in transition and defining their identity, death may be an escape from the failure of finding self-worth. A guarantee of adolescents' place in society is needed; types of psychopathology leading to suicide need to be understood. (CM)

The teacher appeared to be perceived as more of an instructional manager than as solely a provider of direct instruction. Categories perceived not to be primarily the teacher's responsibility included curriculum, adaptive aids, and behavioral instructional approaches. (CL)

Describes how role-playing is used to get high school students involved in the critical reading of novels like Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native." (RL)

Using data from a random sample of currently married adults (N=316), log-linear techniques were used to examine five aspects of household division of labor between husbands and wives as these relate to sex of respondent, labor-force status of the wife, and other independent variables. (Author)

Examined role expectations and realities among Italian-American, single, older women and their daughters. Found the quality of the relationships quite high. Results showed high consensus for the expectations and realities. A greater number of specific resources were expected and received of daughters. (Author)

The role of assignment rationale on the attitudinal effects of peer tutoring is examined. Tutors had more positive attitudes than tutees when they had been given a competence or physical characteristic rationale but not when the tutors were provided a chance rationale or no rationale. (Author/GK)

After reviewing the implications of nonreflective and reflective stances, the conclusion is that applied researchers adopting a social action perspective actually maximize their obligations as scholar-scientists even though a nonneutral posture is assumed. (Author/BW)

Reported responses (N=77) to a questionnaire designed to collect information about perceptions of the role of school psychologists. Results indicated that overall respondents had a fairly accurate sense of what a school psychologist does, although they overestimated the importance of psychotherapy as one of the school psychologist's functions.…

Beginning practicum counselors rated the frequency with which supervisors performed 42 supervisor behaviors. Counselors also rated effectiveness of supervision. Supervisors perceived supervision as providing feedback. Beginning counselors rated supervision as good if a personal supervisor-supervisee relationship existed and supervisors provided…

Special education paraprofessionals play an important role in providing services to severely/profoundly retarded children, making their interaction with parents also important. Paraprofessionals need to be trained to communicate with parents and to serve as a team member in such functions as collecting information and consulting on home behavior…

This investigation of how viewers of daytime serials rate actors playing TV characters of varying age found that the age of a TV character and ratings of that character are not causally related, although a relationship was observed between age and sex--young males, middle-aged females--and ratings. (JVP)

Both artist and teacher share many common qualities, and also differ in many ways. The important thing is not so much that art educators declare professional identity with either profession, but that we realize and strive for excellence in all areas of art education. (Author)