Presents a method for socializing trainees into the learning environment, including a model of organizational socialization, applications in training, and instruments for assessing socialization. (SK)

Special education students (N=58) for whom teachers assessed baseline performance and set reading goals employing a standard format were assigned to goal ambitiousness groups. Teachers implemented students' goals, end-of-treatment goal mastery was determined, and pretest and posttest achievement scores were examined. Analyses revealed that…

Results of a study involving 49 special education secondary students revealed that the Goal-Oriented Approach to Learning (enlisting the student's help in developing an appropriate classroom program) was superior to traditional procedures in terms of student attainment of instructional goals and teacher utilization of a greater range of…

The Model for the Conception of Competition is offered as a means of discovering problems and solutions surrounding competition. Distinctions are made between existing definitions, and insight into how competition relates to human life and cosmic interaction is given. Survival, mastery, and transcendence, modes of psychological thought, are…

Suggests that goal setting and goal achievement are important predictors of success. Some of the necessary ingredients are desire, imagination, concentration, and discipline. Goals must be identified, categorized into short-range and long-range goals, and backed by contingency plans. (JAC)

This article focuses on the problems affecting needs assessment and, in doing so, addresses itself to the inadequate definition of needs, administrators' lack of training, difficulty of obtaining relevant literature, expense, methodological concerns, and political considerations. (Author/SSH)

Moving from middle school to high school can be challenging and exciting, but students with special needs may need to begin preparing for the move earlier than other students. As with other major changes in a child's life, the move to high school will go more smoothly if parents gather information and do some planning. A good time to begin…

The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) believes that prior to the start of each season, all high school head coaches, assistant coaches, and volunteer coaches should be required to participate in a comprehensive orientation to the sport program. This orientation should be planned and conducted by the athletic director or…

Based upon questionnaire returns from 4-H leaders, junior leaders, Extension youth agents, and State 4-H staff personnel in East Central Indiana, it is concluded that a balance between the task dimensions and human relations dimensions of leader behavior is important. (AG)

The present study attempts to show a relationship between goal discrepancy and depression. A relationship was expected such that individuals with higher depression scores should have larger differences between aspiration level and attainment level, while individuals with lower depression scores should have smaller differences. (Author)

A reaction to a previous article by Morris Finder (CTN; n5 pp55-57 Spr '70) in which he argues that instructional intent should be precise, but only to the extent that some desired behavioral objectives can be defined. Deplores the phenomenon known as "endless specificity" which characterizes the construction of some sets of behavioral objectives.…

This article describes a summer orientation program used by a liberal arts college in New York. This orientation program utilized the systems approach as most appropriate for the development of a personalized humanistic orientation for newly admitted students. (Author)

A classroom teacher describes how creative movement helps awareness grow.'' (Editor/SP)

Students explore the Who Am I?'' by making up their own value questionaires and trading them with each other. (GB)

The new college teacher lacks sufficient teaching techniques, training, professional sophistication and practical information. (AD)