A comparison is made between the training and practice of school psychology in the U.S. and in Ontario, Canada. Results of a questionnaire completed by practicing school psychologists in the two countries are compared in terms of demographic data, 25 skill variables, and six role functions. It was found that, despite many differences in training…

Previous research has shown that two relatively uncorrelated orientations; "traditional' and "progressive" underlie educational attitudes of teachers, professors, students in colleges of education, and other adults. The data of the present study, in which 40 female teachers' perceptions of their students were collected, permitted an…

In order to explore the hypothesis that sex-linked biases in causal attributions, widely shared by female and male perceivers, may derive in part from the perceiver's naive sex-linked expectations regarding the potential impact of causal forces on women's and men's behavior, three experiments were carried out. The first experiment was conducted to…

The purpose of this paper is to explore women's perceptions of themselves as politicians and of politics generally in our society, and to explore men's perceptions of women as politicians. (Author)

Status transformations and cultural continuity are examined relative to the role of the Iroquois Indians who participated in the 1855 Franklin Search Expedition in the Arctic. (JC)

The study determined that a relationship exists between the role conception held by a nurse at the end of her first year of graduate practice in a bureaucratic environment and her participation in continuing learning activities. (Author/BP)

A survey was made to determine the understanding of the role of the counselor by students, teachers, administrators, and counselors themselves. Results indicate that there are significant differences in the perceptions of the groups regarding the performance of specific counselor functions. (Author)

Describes two accounts of practical classroom based research which, through socio-dramatic and creative writing activities, examine particular sex and authority role behaviors among students at the secondary level. (RB)

To examine relationships between masculinity-femininity, presence of same or opposite sex sibling, and accuracy of cross-sex role-taking, 92 male and female undergraduates classified the 20 items comprising Smith's Masculinity-Femininity Scale according the sex-role characteristics. (Author)

Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1967.