A recent survey conducted in 45 school districts revealed that a majority of new school board members have received inadequate training to help them perform their duties. (LLR)

Entries are divided into three main categories--(1) orientation: observations, explanations, and case studies useful in acquiring background and in developing plans; (2) methods: creative techniques applicable to instructional software, hardware and design; and (3) results: from measurement research. (EKN)

This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. The profile scores are reasonably reliable, consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure, and permit finer comparisons between individuals with different…

Five elementary teachers explain how they orient pupils and get learning started on the first day of school--whether or not their supplies or textbooks have arrived--by building learning activities around a common interest like dogs, earthworms, football, or the Statue of Liberty. (Editor/SJL)

Thirty blind students (6-11 years old) were administreed a Piagetian task illustrating the shift from topological to projective and Euclidean representation of space. (Author/CL)

Apparently, six-month-old infants can encode a location relative to a landmark, but in many situations their visual search behavior is dominated by a learned egocentric code. (RH)

Outlines two schools of thought on personnel management--staffing and career management--and provides guidelines on how they can be integrated to solve human resources problems. (IRT)

The author's personal account of how goal setting enabled her to become the first woman officer in the Madison, Wisconsin banks. She emphasizes the point that even though one changes goals, the important thing is to have them. (HD)

Exploration of the concept of motivation indicates the following: (1) its dimensions of doing and having demonstrate different goals; (2) these two goals entail different teaching activities; and (3) the more difficult, more desirable goal involves having. (SK)

Describes a peer-based, department-specific initiative to train graduate assistants in the Biology Department of the University of Victoria, Canada. Focuses on the resource manual and orientation day that are aspects of the program. (SLD)

Discusses the connections between leadership and motivation. Tips include: look for things other people overlook, experience the influence of a leader, allow yourself to fail and risk failure, determine goals and expectations, examine thoughts and habits, and have "real leadership" as the objective. (EV)

Recent nursing graduates (n=46) rated stresses and challenges in clinical practice. Stressors included not feeling competent/confident, making mistakes due to increased workload, and encountering new situations. Challenges included applying knowledge to practice and acquiring new skills. Most emotions were positive but anxiety was frequent. Ways…

Four experiments using Piaget's water-level task investigated whether containers tilted at larger angles produce more error than those at smaller angles. Found that the orientation effect occurred between genders but was absent in male subjects when manipulated within subjects; males performed more accurately on easier stimulus trials; and mental…

Reviews concepts of career indecision and career decidedness. Specifies four subtypes: developmental indecision, chronic indecision, hypervigilant decidedness, and vigilant decidedness. Highlights when career goal setting is beneficial and when it can be useless or harmful. (SK)