The impact of different school environments on the process of incorporating adolescent physical changes into body image is explored using data on 225 White females from a longitudinal study. (Author/LMO)

Examined a videotaped feedback session in an undergraduate management course, particularly exploring communicator style in giving feedback. Concluded that both feedback content and form influence judgments of feedback effectiveness. (PD)

Establishes a criterion for and assesses the incidence of friendship among preschoolers. Factors affecting the formation of close association and the consistency of children's interactions with friends and nonfriends were also analyzed. (Author/AS)

Discusses the benefits to be derived from full collaboration in the writing process. Suggests that students learn from sharing their abilities and difficulties and gain emotional and technical support from working with their peers. This is particularly helpful for those students who lack confidence in their writing. (RBW)

Proposes the use of peer support groups as an effective intervention for dealing with personal and academic needs of college students who have learning disabilities. By considering Chickering's vectors of development, special concerns for the student can be generated. (JAC)

The findings indicate that the legal drugs, such as hard liquor and tobacco, are strong precursors to illicit drug use. (Author)

Educators concerned with the preparation of adults are aware that students engage in lengthy discussions with their peers. Increasingly, this is encouraged in educational settings through formal pedagogy. However, little is known about its value to adult cognition. In a phenomenological study investigating the professional development of degree…

The major thrust of this review is on the leaderless technique as it applies to counseling/psychotherapy groups. The first section explores leaderless groups as they have been used for a variety of different endeavors. Section Two is written with an historical perspective. Section Three details existing research on the efficacy of leaderless…

Analyzes the expectation that a group subjected to organization development interventions will behave differently in the work setting from a group not subjected to such interventions, predicting that the differences will be attributable to interdependency awareness in the intervened group. (Author/JM)

Author discusses the idea of using student peers as instructional managers in individualized systems for programed instruction. (Author/HB)

In order to help children obtain a more realistic knowledge and a healthier understanding of what racial and ethnic identities mean author presents projects for expanding student awareness of different ethnic groups. (Author/RK)

This study explored the effects of group counseling procedure employing peers as helpers and compared the peer helper group counseling procedure with the counselor oriented group counseling procedure. Findings indicated that peers can assist counselors and that the counselor alone is not a potent enough change agent. (Author)

Reports the results of a study on the most assertive member in integrated small groups composed of two black and two white junior high school boys, a study which attempted to determine if black assertives were treated differently and behaved differently than white assertives. (JM)

A discussion of weekly meetings by an interracial group of high school students who considered personal responsibility toward the problems of civil rights and racial equality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969). (JM)

The results of this study tend to validate the Clark-Trow model as a meaningful instrument in studying college student subcultures. Perhaps the most significant outcome of the study was that the college subcultures described by Clark and Trow are discernible at the time when students originally matriculate in college. (Author)