A survey of students in the community and technical colleges and four-year college of the University of Akron showed withdrawal often occurred because of job conflicts, financial problems, and need for a temporary break. Nonpersisters would have been encouraged by improved counseling and advising, financial aid, and instruction. Persisters would…

Randomly selected undergraduates at the University of Texas at Dallas were interviewed concerning their perceptions of their classroom experiences. Results showed that neither age nor sex could be used to predict student satisfaction with their academic experience and instruction. (Author/MLW)

This investigation of the role of information specialists as active team members in an academic scientific research setting indicates that the information specialist was accepted as a team member. Scientists made extensive use of information services, reported changes in information habits, and gave the service a positive evaluation. Five sources…

Measures of academic job involvement, verbal ability, academic performance, and satisfaction with courses and with college in general, obtained for 155 students during the freshman year, were correlated with attrition on a two-year followup. Freshman grade point average and satisfaction with college in general were two significant predictors of…

Analysis of a survey of freshman women at a land-grant university included 12 possible determinants of student satisfaction, intent to leave the college, and dropout. The labor model seems applicable to colleges and universities, but is not sufficient to explain the dropout process. (MSE)

A discussion of information obtained from a study of 53 teacher centers focuses on approaches to inservice needs and the factors influencing teacher participation. Various characteristics of teacher centers are discussed. (FG)

Reported is research on the experience of day and evening students who enrolled in the Social Science Faculty of the Erasmus University in the Netherlands when it introduced its evening program in sociology. Focus is on student characteristics, student motives, learning conditions, and performance. Implications for national policy are discussed.…

A study of 14 students in a business administration course shows that peer teaching and peer evaluation may enhance student motivation, satisfaction, and achievement. Learning about oneself is found to be a valuable outcome of peer teaching. Student involvement in determining evaluation criteria is encouraged. (MSE)

Social workers may offer clients four types of support: protection, acceptance, validation, and education. Social workers must examine their own attitudes toward support as well as evaluate the support they receive within their professional settings. They must also assess clients' needs. (Author)

Analysis showed no significant differences between traditional and nontraditional students to the type of counseling they were seeking. New questions were raised, however, regarding the adequacy of counseling services in general and as specifically related to nontraditional students. (Author)

Three studies--two of trial judges' perceptions of trial lawyers' performance and one of law school graduates' perceptions of the utility of legal training--are discussed. The state of lawyer competence and the effect of law schools on that competence are also reevaluated. (Author/MLW)

The decade of the 70s saw more husbands in samples, more attention to couples, use of observational data collection techniques, greater attention to methodological and measurement issues, biases in the portrayal of sex roles, attempts to build theory and synthesize the literature, growing interest in "dyads," and more international research.…

The use of TeleNet, a two-way telephonic communication system, by the University of Illinois and the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service is described. The TeleNet system, veterinary use of TeleNet, participant evaluations, and the importance of the speaker in making the meeting work effectively are discussed. (MLW)

Evaluates a comprehensive project in functional literacy education piloted at five sites in North Carolina. Provides information on student characteristics, levels of exposure and achievement, perceptions of the project, and determinants of achievement, revealing growth in student achievement, but no correlation between achievement and length of…

This study compares effects on high school students (N=959) of the Self Directed Search (SDS), the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI), and no treatment. Students taking the SDS or the VPI evaluated the instruments, felt more satisfied with current occupational choices, and considered more occupational alternatives. Differences between the…