Describes Systematic Competency Based Group procedures as a technique integrating group counseling and human development training for children. Proposes that the procedure allows pupil progress to be assessed in a life-role activity, and enhances the acquisition of basic communication skills. (JAC)

Investigated the efficacy of teaching students at-risk for academic failure to deal with school-related stress. High school students were assigned to a coping skills training group, a counselor intervention group, or a control group. The students given coping skills training showed significantly improved social problem-solving ability. (Author)

Using the Self-Descriptive Inventory, compares development of self-concept, self-esteem, self-ideal in physical maturity, peer relations, academic success, school adaptiveness in 50 rural children (Hatch, New Mexico) and 50 urban children (Las Cruces New Mexico). Finds negative patterns in academic success and school adaptiveness more pronounced…

Suggests that educators can be very influential in fostering higher goals and self-confidence among female students. Educators can provide positive information about the students' performance and the achievements of other women, concerned women role models, and programs specifically designed to promote students' confidence in their abilities.…

Describes a Life Development Center, a structured residential environment in which students and professionals work together to achieve personal growth and development. The Center provides for the integration of academic and residence environments in which students' understandings of themselves and others may be expanded. (JAC)

Discusses the conflicts between values inherent in theories of college student development and those of foreign student populations. Recommends ways to direct the student development professional in surmounting this dilemma by emphasizing a need for focused research and training in the area. (Author)

A definition of the construct of teacher sense of efficacy is proposed, a model relating it to other variables is provided. Also presented is a review of literature not only on teacher sense of efficacy but on other constructs which afford indirect insight into the phenomenon of teacher sense of efficacy. (Author/AL)

Five views of quality education are identified: the mystical, the reputational, the resources, the outcome, and the value-added. A new approach is proposed with the emphasis on good teaching, unpublicized student evaluations, and disinterested peer evaluation. (Author/MLW)

College counselors can expand their role from remedial to primary prevention methods of dealing with students. Intervention can be directed at groups determined to be at risk to reduce onset of emotional distress. (JAC)

Housing administrators must develop a living environment within which the needs of students are met, their behavior is dealt with, and learning can take place. In providing a commonly shared experience or sense of community, the educational value of the residence hall experience is unique. (Author)

Describes a number of ways to teach the work ethic indirectly and thereby improve student attitudes toward work, including the use of various audiovisual aids and class exercises demonstrating personal and business behaviors and procedures to provide student motivation. (MF)

The Filter, Human-Capital, and Maturation hypotheses are discussed as the starting point for an analysis of the roles of a university. A student viewpoint is derived from the analysis of questionnaire responses of a first-year New Zealand university class (approximately 2,300 students). (Author/MLW)

Touches on some of the activities of the Office of Education and discusses the objectives of the Community Education Unit which relate to the status of the two-year college: governance goals, lifelong learning, community resources development, cooperative relations with the private sector, international dimensions, and focus on students. (AYC)

Improvements in student services are documented in this description of a unique resource network which has devised bold strategies to solve problems and combat alienation at the 24,000-student University of Massachusetts campus at Amherst. (Author/AF)

Employing two complementary data sets--the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of l972, and the Study of Academic Prediction and Growth, we question the conventional interpretation of educational plans as motives and thereby as determinants of educational attainment. (Author/GDC)