The way in which agricultural scientists of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station research staff pereive aspects of the uses and importance of the mass media in communicating their research work was surveyed. The profile developed from the 65 responses to the survey shows that agricultural scientists place only moderate importance on mass…

The continued existence and value of teacher aides in school districts throughout America is dependent on the successful manipulation of a number of variables. These are quite divergent and vary from school district to school district and often within individual schools. The successful operation of each teacher aide program depends on the…

This paper discusses the use of student journals in a community college literature course as a technique to analyze student responses to literary works. Journal statements collected from 26 students in two classes were evaluated and assigned to the following categories: self and society; class discussion and activity; class discussion, activity,…

The professional role orientation of women teachers and women administrators is compared with a limited number of variables. (Available from the Department of Educational Administration, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G5; $4.00 annually.) (MLF)

Men nurse stereotypes (former corpsmen, homosexuals, or those seeking administrative positions) were challenged by results of an open-ended questionnaire survey of 15 male nursing students. In addition to the role conflicts all nurses experience, men in nursing face: isolation and loneliness, lack of role models, and others' stereotyped ideas.…

Suggests that a most crucial and complex priority is the need for the head of schools to come to terms with his or her own personal needs, especially as related to feelings about authority. Coming to terms with oneself in relation to leadership roles is never-ending process of self-examination. (Author/AM)

Notes that the position of head of a school is crucial at the beginning when children go to a school because the whole tone of the school is set by the attitude of the head. The way the head thinks affects the children and the staff and the staff's attitude to the children. (Author/AM)

Suggests that even though some argue that there is not much that can be done inside the school if the conditions outside are working against it, a situation of tolerance, humanity, compassion, and challenge can be created in schools. Only the educator has the opportunity to make life good in school. (Author/AM)

Notes that if the school really belongs to the community, then administrators have no more right to put a kid out of his school than to put their children out of the house. Discusses the implications of this ideology. (Author/AM)

This last in a three-part series gives ground rules and examples for guiding the dynamics of various kinds of career groups. (Author)

This paper analyzes the responses of Norwegian academic-secondary teachers to questions about their social origins, about the extent to which the teachers developed a commitment to a teaching career during their university education, and about various aspects of their professional attitudes. The findings indicate that social origin and the…

This study examines the relationship of sex-role orientation, among 218 female undergraduates, as measured by the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), fear of success, and achievement motivation and performance. (Author/EB)

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule was used to examine the relation of the sex role stereotypes held by college men and women to the objective measurement of these stereotyped characteristics. Subjects perceived numerous differences between the average female and male, but very few differences between the ideal female and male. (Author/EB)

A strong correlation was found between frequency of communication between preschool teachers and parents and the number of topics discussed. Teachers' age and experience were not significantly related to communicative behavior. (Editor)

In this study, the situational nature of female sex roles and the degree of consensus among women concerning female sex roles is examined in social and work situations. (Author/WI)