A study in Wake County, North Carolina, designed to determine how racist structural barriers influence role perceptions of Black decision makers, identified the following discriminators of role perceptions: 1) officials' perceptions of themselves as decision makers or decision influencers; 2) age; 3) racial composition of organization; 4)…

Vocational agriculture instructors have an important role as community leaders. To perform this role, they should strive to show a sincere interest in people and their problems, demonstrate professionalism, assist in making the community a better place to live, and place high priority on community involvement. (SSH)

The responses indicated considerable agreement among educator groups in their estimations of the percentage of time actually and ideally allotted to eight role activities, with support for more time in communication and consultation roles and less time in clerical and miscellaneous tasks. (Author)

Other-directed (interpersonally sensitive) or inner-directed (interpersonally less sensitive) students (N=80) observed a videotape of a person acting in either a role-consonant or a role-deviant manner. As expected, there was significantly less variance among the ratings when other-directed observers viewed role-deviant behavior than in the other…

Reports on a study that examined whether different school staff members agreed on the importance of various roles performed by reading specialists. (FL)

Discusses the various roles reading specialists are expected to play in the school. (FL)

Investigates approval/disapproval of behavioral performance in terms of the relative status of male and female role positions. Reports that male role behaviors are more highly approved than female role behaviors for both male and female college students. (ST)

Suggests ways to interest male secondary students in joining Future Homemakers of America/Home Economics Related Occupations (FHA/HERO) through changing their ideas about homemaking skills and showing them how men as well as women need the training and can benefit from various home economics career fields. (MF)

Concludes that women's section reporters are generally more similar to city editors than to their own section editors, suggesting that they may be influenced by factors external to their immediate role environments. (GT)

The major conclusions of this survey were: (1) the more a decision task related to classroom instruction, the more faculty involvement in decision making occurred; and (2) the more the decisional task involved money, the less faculty involvement occurred. More detailed findings are discussed in this article and recommendations made. (Author/SJL)

The establishment of a Board of Certified Professional Counselors increases the professionalism of counselors. It assures the public of the counselor's competence, protects the profession and the counselor, and determines qualification for entrance into the profession. (JAC)

School children in Israel from different cultural groups perceive the positive roles that elderly persons play. Conditions that promote the role of the aged person as teacher and aspects of the teacher role as perceived by children from different cultural origins are specified. (Author)

Reports results of a survey in which 200 teenaged girls indicated which television woman was like them, which one they would like to be like, which would be the best friend and the best mother, which women exhibited the most control over their situations, and which female television star most resembled the "typical American female." (GT)

Good evaluation shares much with good teaching. What makes an evaluation useful can depend on qualities of teaching brought to the evaluator's role. (Available from: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94104, single issue, $6.95.) (Author)

Two hundred Black and White male college students were questioned to determine personality needs, perception of a wife's financial contribution, and need to play a masculine role in relation to their preferences for a traditional or nontraditional future wife. Data were analyzed according to race and other mediating variables. (GC)