Using a sample of 77 10th grade boys, the researchers studied the relationships between the mental abilities measured by the Differential Aptitude Tests and cerebral dominance (CD: the extent to which one hemisphere of the brain dominates the other for control of behavior). The surprise finding was that CD was negatively related to spatial…

The article analyzes and evaluates TORI as a method of helping women deal with change and grow toward their potential as humans; a specific group method under the general heading of sensitivity/personal growth groups, TORI brings together 100 or more participants for a specific period of time (generally a weekend) in a minimal structure and with…

Presents two perspectives bearing on the concept of social competence, the motivational and the socio-cultural; the author was a member of a panel of black experts convened to review, from a black perspective, the lists of outcomes and measures which Rand plans to use to evaluate Head Start. (JM)

A discussion of the empirical research approach and presentation of eight possible alternatives for Catholic education: continue mindlessly, high school concentration, early childhood "mothering" education, critical period religious education, adult religious education, moral and value education, urban education concentration, and human…

Design of a research project is discussed that tests the development of role orientation of individual high school students over four-year period to move toward greater adult orientation. (Author/ND)

The Personal Orientation was used to assess changes in student development for groups of residence hall student assistants, student leaders, and other residence hall students. Also, residence hall, off campus, and commuting students were studied for differences in self-actualization. Results indicated that significant differences did exist among…

Presented at the Goshen Indiana School Health Conference, September 1967 and reprinted from the Indiana State Board of Health Bulletin, page 12, February 1968.

Requests for reprints should be sent to: Robert D. Brown, University Counseling Service, 108 Administration Building, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Chapter 9 in Life Skills in School and Society.