The convergent validity between the following measures was investigated: use of accomplices, imaginary accomplices, feltboard, disguised questionnaire, and undisguised questionnaire. The first four measures yielded corresponding results. Subjects' awareness proved to be an important methodological consideration. Results were not affected by the…

The program, described in detail, consists of career assessment and personal planning experiences for management facilitators and employee planners. Also discussed are the results of a generally successful pilot test of the program. (Author/MS)

Reviewed are findings from 60 research studies investigating the relationship of visual discrimination, spatial relations, memory, and auditory-visual integration to school learning. (Author/CL)

Data about alumni, students, and staff--organized around concepts of job entry, decisions, and changes in goals, jobs, and majors--revealed the importance of satisfaction on the first job, a changing relationship between jobs and majors, the impact of the liberal arts' study on educational aspirations, and the rationale for choice. (Editor/JT)

The author presents characteristics of the spatially competent learning disabled (SCLD) child and reviews research on the topic. (PHR)

More effective working relationships need to be established between faculty and student affairs staff for the purpose of developing a curriculum that promotes the full spectrum of student development goals. This study attempts to provide information that would assist in the initial planning and implementation of these new relationships. (Author)

It appears that a positive relationship exists between certain attributes of a self-actualizing person and the life style of the person who scores high on the Purpose in Life Test. Perhaps self-actualization and strong purpose in life are related secondarily through separate relationships with other variables. (Author/JKS)

A program that is being field-tested at Northside Junior High School in Roanoke, Virginia, under the title, "Cluster Approach to Career Orientation," (CACO) will be ready for use sometime in 1977. (HD)

This paper describes an undergraduate career planning course. It gives a course history and an overview of critical issues in student development. This is followed by a description of the design, development, and results of course evaluations, and finally by implications for similar future programs. (Author/BP)

Community colleges are providing an easily accessible educational opportunity for many black Americans; but because of low self-concepts and unmet orientation needs, many black students have difficulty surviving. Recommendations for improving this situation are made. (DC)

Results of a study of personal job-stress factors among day care center personnel focus on impact of staff-child ratio, working hours, time out, staff meetings and program structure. Recommended institutional changes for prevention of staff "burn-out" involve reduction in amount of direct staff-child contact, development of social-professional…

Considers what teacher centers actually are, what they do, what they are supposed to do, and how they are formed. Discusses three types of centers, their organizational structure and function, and the theory underlying them. (Editor/RK)

Assessed correlations between the intrinsic and extrinsic orientations of the Religious Orientation Scale, and anxiety, personality traits, self-control, irrational beliefs, and depression. Intrinsic orientation was negatively correlated with anxiety and positively correlated with self-control and "better" personality functioning, whereas the…

The design and rationale for the University of South Carolina's required credit-bearing freshman orientation course are described, and ways in which the course offering could be made better are discussed. (MSE)

This research verifies complaints of substitute teachers that their work is dreary and unfulfilling. To improve this situation substitute teachers must be accepted by students and school personnel as full-fledged teachers with legitimate authority, rights, and responsibilities. Assigning them to specific subjects and grades will help them to…