Paper presented in part to the Society for Research in Child Development (New York, March 1967).

Psychological androgyny is becoming the new standard of mental health at a time when social, political, and economic realities enable women to expand career options. To examine the influence of client sex on the treatment planning of clients, therapists responded to two hypothetical cases of male and female clients whose presenting problem was…

Library use instruction is seen by most librarians in Britain and the United States to be an essential component of an academic library's overall operation, with the expressed or implied aim of enabling students to achieve maximum utilization of library resources and services. Having passed through a long history of cyclical popularity dating back…

Research on the characteristics of women in non-traditional fields, e.g., medicine, has yielded complex information in terms of adherence to sex-role stereotypes. To determine whether students' attitudes toward helping and achieving followed sex-role typing and were different at various stages in medical school, 384 male and female oncology…

This kit has been designed by teachers at the Atlanta Area Center for Teachers (Georgia) to offer beginning teachers support and suggestions as they begin the challenge of their first year of teaching. Because most new teachers in Georgia must participate in Competency Based Teacher Performance Certification, this package has been sequenced…

Using a sequence of exercises and short discussions, this manual trains principals and other administrators to manage their time better. Readers discover how they use their time, identify and reconcile their personal and job goals with their time commitments, prioritize the goals, and learn the planning steps needed to achieve the prioritized…

Examined are changes in personality impressions formed by status-oriented individuals who differ in Need for Social Approval (NA) or Locus of Control of Reinforcement (I-E). Subjects recorded their initial and final personality impressions of speakers ascribed either high or low social status. High NA observers (or Externals) showed most positive…

This booklet is for individuals who are interested in learning more about the process of problem-solving. It provides information and sample tools, charts, and suggestions to assist in problem-solving efforts. The first section is about the nature of the problem-solving process. Then the five steps of problem-solving--(1) focusing on the problem,…

This career education implementation guide is designed for Michigan school districts which have not yet developed their plans for career education, as well as for those that are already immersed in initial planning or experimental implementation. The introduction found in section one includes such information as an overview of the related federal…

This manual offers practical guidelines for those who wish to become involved in providing pre-retirement education for older workers. It is a multi-group discussion model with a flexible program design that can be used to develop, coordinate, and instruct pre-retirement programs in business and industry, government colleges and universities,…

A step-by-step program for developing a staff improvement program within a school is offered. Discussions concerning participant identification, task setting, decision making, policy formation, goal decisions, and evaluation are presented, and record-keeping instruments for similar inservice programs are suggested. (JD)

SIX ASPECTS OF STAFFING--SELECTION, ORIENTATION, PROMOTION, FACULTY IN-SERVICE GROWTH, SALARY ADMINISTRATION, AND EVALUATION OF FACULTY--WERE STUDIED THROUGH QUESTIONNAIRES AND FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEWS AT 12 EVENING COLLEGES IN THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION. MANY PRINCIPLES ADVOCATED IN THE LITERATURE WERE FOUND IN COMMON USE (INCLUDING USING STANDARD…

THE SANTO DOMINGO, NEW MEXICO, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENROLLS 720 INDIAN PUPILS IN GRADES 1 THROUGH 8 AND UTILIZES 30 TEACHERS IN ITS INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM. ALTHOUGH THE PUPILS COME FROM A CULTURE WHICH IS UNFAMILIAR TO MOST OF THEIR TEACHERS, A PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE SCHOOL IS THAT THE LIFE, CUSTOMS, BELIEFS, AND CULTURE OF THE INDIAN…