This paper outlines a program designed for preparing groups of engaged couples for marriage in circumstances where program time is limited to two afternoon sessions. Six topic areas are covered: Adjustments and Priorities; Communication Skills; Parenthood; Money Management; Religious Dimensions in Marriage; and Sexuality. The method used is one of…

The University of Florida/Florida State University's Center for State and Regional Leadership for Two-Year Colleges has a special fellowship program for preservice and inservice preparation of State-level personnel. The new State director for Wyoming participated in the program, and his impressions and evaluation of it are reported here. Following…

The growth of spatial awareness and representation was studied in children between ages five and nine. A group of thirteen tasks was administered to subjects three times with periods of approximately six months among sessions. The tasks were selected to measure understanding of projective spatial properties (straight line trajectories,…

The open-door philosophy and the resulting diversification of the community college student body require that student personnel programs improve their services. This paper describes and analyzes new practices in student personnel services that attempt to make the open door philosophy a reality. The report briefly describes decentralization of…

Analysis of data collected from ninth and twelfth grade boys and their parents investigates whether parent-child agreement on goals reflects parental influence. The analysis leads to the following conclusions: (1) parent-child agreement cannot be viewed as a wholly spurious basis for imputing influence; (2) agreement measures based on the child's…

Neither the nature of orientation instructions nor monetary incentives have significant effects on listening achievement, according to results of one experiment. The study tested six groups of subjects on the contents of one speech heard by all. The orientation variable of the speech had three conditions: interesting, neutral, and boring subjects…

To handle the thousands of new students expected to flood the nation's community colleges, many more master teachers will be needed if the potential of high-risk students is to be maximized. Such teachers are not being created by present pre-service and in-service training or being developed at colleges and universities. The place to make…

This study is an evaluation of the Berkeley Unified Elementary School District, which was completely desegregated using a strategy of two-way, cross-town bussing. It presents documentation for tentative answers to two fundamental questions: (1) what is to be gained by eliminating dual school systems? And, (2) what is the cost to be paid for…

In its attempts to apply behavior modification principles to teaching job-required behaviors to manpower trainees, the Mobilization for Youth-Experimental Manpower Laboratory (MFY-EML), has mounted a number of reinforcement-based Neighborhood Youth Corps training programs. The nature, magnitude and scheduling of reinforcers, the nature of the…

A Neighborhood Youth Corps trainee orientation program was developed in order to prevent early dropout from training caused by a new trainee's lack of information about job training and its concomitant problems. Orientation sessions used group techniques, role playing, audiovisual aids, and field trips to give the trainee a clearer picture of the…

Critical methodological issues in the design and evaluation of programs in affective education are discussed. The uncertain relationship between the short term and long range goals of instruction is problematic to evaluation in the traditional subject matter areas; but it is a much more serious predicament for evaluators of education in values and…

This book was designed to be read by new teachers. The first section is devoted to a description of the Montgomery County Public Schools' new teacher orientation program, a program based on a self-improvement strategy. The program description places the emphasis on microteaching; there are weekly group meetings with a leader, but as time…

This research essentially presents an overview, historically and contemporarily, of the social-psychological concept of the reference group (or "other"), including theoretical and empirical literature reviews. Basic problems of definition and conceptual confusion are discussed. Concepts such as relative deprivation, anticipatory socialization,…

An evaluation was conducted of the services and materials by the Indiana Career Resource Center. The center is an area information center which has a large number of functions in the surrounding area and comes into contact with many groups. A three part questionnaire was designed to evaluate the center's performance. The three sections were: (1)…

Participative management includes a wide range of behavior in the education enterprise. It incorporates an involvement of more people in the educational process - people who are becoming more aware of the management problems in the education arena and who are actually changing what happens to students, teachers, and administrators. Where there is…