The influence of age of entrance to first grade on subsequent rate of scholastic development was tested in this longitudinal investigation. Forty-one pairs of boys and forty-nine pairs of girls, matched according to sex, intelligence, and socioeconomic status, were subjects. The mean chronological age of late entrants was 81 months, opposed to 72…

The variety of manpower needs generated by advanced technology plus all that is known about human variability in aptitude, achievement, interests, motivations, attitudes, values and intellectual dispositions underscore the need for a highly diversified higher education system. Britain has lagged behind other industrial countries in providing a…

College and university learning centers have evolved from narrowly defined remedial services to agencies serving the entire student community. The changing role of learning centers necessitates systematic program evaluation and assessment of student needs. During 1975, the Colorado State University Learning Laboratory staff collected data on…

This mission statement expresses purposes of the State University of New York at Albany, and is the opening essay in a planning process that is the responsibility of the Office of Academic Planning. Focus is on the pertinent elements of mission and on criteria for institutional development. The statement contains the following: historical…

Some proposals are offered that student personnel administrators can use to facilitate student development. They involve coordination of outside and class activities, opportunities for attitude development, a personal development orientation for administration functions, student input relating to administrative actions, and treating students as…

The relationship between student and teacher was once at the core of the educational experience. Today, on most campuses faculty and students seldom interact outside the classroom in an informal setting. Student personnel administrators are in a key position to help alleviate the problem of deteriorating student-faculty relations. (Author)

This article discusses those important everyday work problems and activities that are not usually covered in textbooks and professional training classroom sessions but are considered basic to survival in the profession. (Author)

A program description of a group approach to vocational counseling is outlined and discussed in terms of theoretical background and application. Preliminary data are also presented that suggest that students show change on an index of career maturity as a result of their participation in the program. (Author)

The purpose of this consultation project was assisting faculty to become better able to adapt their instructions to developmental and learning characteristics of their students. The article describes three psychological theories, three operational structures, and three sources of gain that were key to the project. (Author/JEL)

Roller skates and fairy tales, Big Macs and snowflakes all blend with the curriculum to bring back the good old, brand-new "funner" class setting. (Editor)

Summarizes research on recent developments in the trend toward full-day kindergarten programs. Topics covered include (1) full-day and half-day differential gains, (2) the nature of gains produced by full-day kindergarten, (3) the lack of causal relations among program components, (4) enduring effects, (5) differential student effects, and (6)…

Presents a hyperbolic scenario in which a ruthless writing teacher overlooks her young students' progress in other areas of writing and admonishes them because their penmanship is poor. (AEW)

The inability of university professors to communicate about shared concepts and concerns--e.g., meaning, self, integrity, an ideal of truth--is related to the fragmented university, departmentalized and bureaucratized. The impact of this on the humanity of those involved is sketched, and suppositions are advanced about the nature of education.…

Derek Bok took issue with Education Secretary Bennett's charge that few universities were educating students about morality. Donald Kennedy criticized the Secretary's understanding of the demands on universities to both teach and to conduct research. (MLW)

An approach to higher education research that focuses on characteristics of and changes in the college student population in different countries and their effects on higher education is described and recommended. (MSE)