The results indicate that the activists studied were neither aggressive nor oversensitive. They appear to be students who have achieved success in the academic milieu, who appear interested in maintaining that success, and whose personalities and experiences have led them to believe they should have a role in affecting their environment.…

During the four year period of the contract, extensive clinical tests were completed which indicated significant immediate effects of cigarette smoking on healthy young males and females. Significant differences between smokers and nonsmokers were observed in terms of knowledge, attitudes, and practices. (Author)

Youth must realize that the goal of rebellion is not continued revolt but constructive change. Counselors can restore for each youth a sense of inclusion in the brotherhood of man, by providing him an opportunity for involvement in the democracy, and by fostering in him a sense of personal responsibility which progressively commits him to an…

Proposes that sex information should consist of sexual facts which are established as valid in the scientific community and integrated in the day to day curriculum without value judgment. (MF)

The NEA president-elect announces a campaign to establish professional practices boards, by State statute, to give teachers more control over teacher education, licensure, in-service education, and the ethical conduct of their peers. (Author/MF)

"Results indicated that among all predictors only the peer ratings demonstrated predictive validity of first-year grades. (Author)

Emotional arousal was studied during sensitivity training groups. It was concluded that the rise-and-fall pattern found in this and earlier studies is dependent on adequate time for the elicitation of negative affect and may require the isolation of the group from contact with other groups. (Author)

A multivariate model was constructed to test and compare sets of social location and consciousness factors explaining political behavior among two random samples of college and noncollege youth. The form of Mannheim's generation unit model provided a useful tool for comparing youth groups within the same generation; the contents await replication…

A study to determine whether faculty conformity to the four norms of science identified by Merton are integrating mechanisms or whether they are forces of fragmentation is discussed. The four norms are identified: universalism, communality, disinterestedness, and organized skepticism. (Author/MLW)

Reports on the results of survey research designed to determine how students feel about peer assistance and group writing. Finds that results were generally favorable, although more problems surfaced regarding collaborative projects than peer criticism. States that statistical analysis of objective and open-ended items yielded suggestions for…

Examined homophilic mechanisms by which adolescents affect, and are affected by, levels of internalized distress within their immediate peer groups. Found that adolescents tend to associate with peers who report similar levels of internalized distress and that internalizers are no less successful than others at establishing friendships. Selection,…

States that students in writing response groups have to work through conflicting sets of role expectations, one connected to response to writing in general, the other created by the unequal power relations in classrooms. Discusses how students manage to juggle the demands of conflicting roles and how teachers can guide them to do so productively.…

Describes investigation examining relationships between mother-child conversations about peers and children's peer competence. Suggests frequencies of conversations, maternal advice giving, and discussions of emotions were associated with children's competence and conversational frequency continued to predict competence after controlling for…

Studies five peer-response groups in a freshman composition class before and after a semester of reading and responding to literature. Examines how the reading of literature affects the quality of responses to student written texts. Demonstrates the potential that the reading of and responding to literary texts holds for peer response. (MG)