Focuses on the indicators of effectiveness in a case study of an alternative school. The clarification of staff roles in conjunction with the development of innovative roles is stressed as an important success factor. Includes a discussion of role theory. (APM)

Explores how principals use some of the discretionary resources at their command to come to an accommodation with problems of resource inadequacy, challenges to authority, and conflicting role expectations. Uses the framework provided by the theory of street-level bureaucracy. (Author/IRT)

The role expectation, role performance, and leader behavior of principals in 31 Birmingham, Alabama, elementary schools were studied. Comparisons were made between teachers' and principals' perceptions and between perceptions of teachers in self-contained, team teaching, and departmentalized schools. (Author/SJL)

Results indicate that feminists and nonfeminists of both sexes have disparate perceptions of desirable characteristics for women. Nonfeminists describe ideal men and women in terms of traditional stereotypes. Feminists describe the ideal person as possessing masculine sex-role characteristics. (Author/BEF)

The conceptualization of teacher role has led to the six-factor Role Dimension Profile Scale. When responses to the scale used with a Likert data collection format are analyzed, the resulting single dimension is interpreted as the teacher's "professional horizon." Implications of these results are discussed. (Author/GSK)

Evaluation of leadership is a central task in organizational consultation, but too often ignores the relationship between task definition and administrative structure, and the availability of scarce resources. A systems approach focuses on the reciprocal impact of individual psychodynamics and organizational characteristics on leadership…

Novels about American higher education are examined to discover the images of college and university presidents projected through fiction. Fictive presidents are found to be vain, ambitious, hyperaggressive, failures at coping with crises, and--in contrast to fictive faculty--either uninterested or unsuccessful in extracurricular sexual…

High school students rated women for attractiveness, occupation, and educational background. A positive correlation was found between women perceived to have taken traditionally masculine courses, those perceived to be in careers generally viewed as masculine, and those perceived as physically attractive. (Author/ST)

Assessed the effects of two types of communicative cues on perceptions of dominance. Subjects viewed stimulus tapes of controlled conversations and rated each speaker. Results indicated that vocal participation contributed to perceptions of dominance more than open-ended or closed-ended questions. (Author/RC)

The total Parent as a Teacher Inventory score of parents at either the lower or upper extremes served as a guide for identifying those who would be least and most successful as teachers in a home based child language training program. (SBH)

Stereotypes about sex roles and achievement settings were investigated by examining stories written by college males and females. The characters of the stories, "John" and "Anne," were placed in either a neutral setting or in medical school. Anne was rated more feminine than John in the neutral setting but equally masculine as a medical student.…

Demonstrates that the attentiveness construct can be accurately represented in terms of behavioral signals, sensitivities, and self-evaluations. Indicates that attentiveness is a function of posture, verbal behavior, and eye contact and demonstrates that attentiveness varies as a function of role status across differing contexts. (JMF)

Fifteen male and 15 female friendship pairs at three grade levels (grades 5, 7 and 9) participated in a study of interpersonal perceptions of friendship. Each subject expressed an intelligence perception of self, friend, ideal friend and expected rating of self by the friend. Results are discussed. (CM)

Discusses a study of the roles and functions of theater criticism in Palestine and Israel over a 50-year period. Focuses on the social role of drama critics, the norms defining their expected as compared to their actual behavior, and the social, political, and cultural context in which they operated. (JMF)