Definitions and identification practices are examined in light of special problems facing gifted disabled and gifted disadvantaged students. Research is reviewed on a variety of gifted subgroups, including physical disabilities, diverse cultures and ethnic groups, underachievement, and learning disabilities. Differences in definitions of gifted…

Most of the debate among the behavioral sciences about the interaction between choice of sexual object and personality characteristics has dealt with male homosexuality. To explore the personality variables of female homosexuals, 46 heterosexual and 46 homosexual women took the California Psychological Inventory. Comparison of the results…

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972, a study examined individual and environmental characteristics which predicted occupational turnover in the three-year period after college graduation. Discriminant analysis was used to distinguish determinants of persistence in six occupations. Three were considered to be in the…

Researchers are divided as to whether loneliness is a result of diminished quantity or quality of social interaction. Although results have been produced which support each position, few studies have examined the relationship between the two. To qualify the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of loneliness by exploring…

In recent years, the study of the self has been concentrated in the areas of self-esteem, individual differences in self-relevant cognition, and the processes of self-relevant cognition. To validate understanding of the individual difference dimensions of public and private self-consciousness and self-esteem, college students (N=101) completed the…

This article was motivated by a staff development session when the brass faculty of a conservatoire were invited to share and discuss their approaches to teaching. It presents the results of interviews with six well known woodwind or brass players who have also taught at one or more conservatoires in London for periods of between one and 40 years.…

Ever since the early days of its existence, the field of psychology has been trying to achieve two different and somewhat contradictory objectives: to understand the "general principles" of the human mind and to explore the "uniqueness" of the individual mind. The latter direction has formed an independent subdiscipline within…

Schools have devised an assortment of "change of pace" activities to retread tired routines and bolster drooping spirits. One such program is described by a member of the English department at Marple Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. (Editor)

This article introduces three reviews of the book, Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America by Christopher Jencks et al. Following the reviews are comments by Christopher Jencks. For related articles see TM 501 197-200. (MLP)

This article introduces a new personnel development concept and attempts to correct the notion that personnel development is largely a training function. Implicit is the notion that by enhancing the utilization of existing manpower and providing opportunities for career development, we foster good employee relations and contribute to…

Reviewed are studies on differences in mathematical achievement between boys and girls. Studies are sorted into pre-school, early elementary, upper elementary, and high school categories to synthesize the results. A summary is presented in the form of questions which arise from analysis of these studies' results. (JP)

In this book the focus is upon education as the vehicle through which individual differences must be reconciled in the light of a moral commitment to the principles of equality. The axiom of equality is reviewed as it was laid down by philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. More recent developments in the philosophy of equality…

The present study was initiated to help college students preparing to teach to obtain information regarding the interests of pre-adolescents and to compare the interests of those pre-adolescents attending schools in varied geographical locations in order to improve learning activities and communications between adults and young people. (Author/RK)

A restatement of the environmental interaction paradigm may be found in the B-P-E paradigm which states that Behavior is a function of the Person and Environment. The B-P-E paradigm lends itself to the conceptualization of complex problems. Four characteristics of this paradigm are described. (BJG)

A modified version of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) was administered to measure self and other orientations on 15 personality variables. The respondents were shown to have different preferences for themselves than for others. (Author/DEP)