Reports the results of a random survey of members of the Association for Specialists in Group Work, in which their perceptions of the behavior of group leaders was evaluated as being ethical or unethical. (Author)

Ninety of the 126 research institutions invited to become charter members of the Holmes Group, a coalition for reform of teacher education and the teaching profession, have accepted the invitation, 25 have rejected membership, and 11 were unable to reach a decision and have been granted an extension. The invited institutions and their status are…

The League for Innovation in the Community College, a small group of community college presidents that helps to promote innovative and promising programs in two-year colleges by seeking funds and sharing resources, is criticized for being exclusive. (MSE)

Analyzes students' Greek affiliation in relation to their value orientation and their conforming to the goals of the academic institution. Contends that the Greek system is not compatible with many of the traditional goals of the academy, but that students in general seem to be out of step with these goals. (Author/ABB)

This essay analyzes how the Afro-American intelligentsia has inherited and has been critically influenced by the idological postures of bourgeois thought, and utilized it in the study of the Afro-American experience. (Author/AM)

The purpose of this paper is to report a successful technique for assessing cooperative group work reliably and validly. The paper demonstrates a simple-to-use assessment procedure that tracks individual accountability, energizes student interaction, and rewards cooperative learning, even as it uses fewer administrative resources than traditional…

This paper aims to make the techniques of cooperative learning more attractive to teachers by presenting a method of assessment that avoids the drawbacks associated with trying to extract valid and reliable individual marks from cooperative performances. The paper presents an easy-to-use method of assessing an individual's contribution to a…

The main effects and interactions of a teacher's instructional methods (direct/nondirect) and students' conceptual levels (high/low) on the students' motivation to learn academic course content were studied with 65 college students in an introductory educational technology class. Students completed a measure designed to indicate their conceptual…

Groups were formed in which all members were rated previously as performing at either high or low levels of interpersonal skills during a behavioral assessment procedure. Group members evaluated each other's interpersonal behavior and their group's cohesiveness after a two-hour leaderless session. Highly skilled groups were seen as more cohesive.…

This study of whether social-psychological orientations are cause or effect of action in groups presented no simple answer, but findings indicate that interpersonal and status factors can determine peace group memberships and biographical data suggest that orientations predisposing to peace group membership take shape in youth and early adulthood…

Counselor educators of 1964 are described comparatively through use of data obtained from a U.S. Office of Education directory of counselor educators and membership directories of APGA and APA. Highest degree groups were used for most comparisons, but ACES regional and professional membership groups were also used. (Author)

Suggests that contemporary ethnic groups have a predominantly social, rather than a strictly hereditary base and are, consequently, more open to people outside the group. (RW)

A scale is developed by employing a form of item analysis called trace line analysis. Statistically significant associations with variables expected to be related to familism support the validity of the scale. (Author)