A study explored the socialization process of beginning teachers participating in formal teacher induction programs. The focus was on perceived sources of influence on classroom practices. The findings suggest that a wide array of features compete for the attention of the first year teachers as they make instructional decisions. Over the course of…

Orientation to time, place, and person is a central aspect of cognitive functioning. Measures of orientation, as employed in the psychiatric mental status examination, evaluate the accuracy of orientation in present awareness, and are applicable only to severely disturbed psychiatric populations in whom obvious deficits would be expected. The…

Recent research on women's lives has emphasized the complex interactions between situational constraints in the family and the workplace. To examine the relationship of situational variables and personality characteristics to career-related self-efficacy expectations and life satisfaction in women, 94 college women completed a questionnaire…

Author observed that "children are sensitive to space" and that the environment holds a potential for education that we are only beginning to explore. (Editor/RK)

Describes a graphic analysis of the disorganized sucking patterns in premature infants, and points out the psychoprophylactic importance of individually appropriate feeding procedures which should be used in the care of premature infants. (Author/CS)

States that a library should be user rather than librarian oriented and gives suggestions for becoming user-oriented. (JG)

Goal setting is important as an instructional tool. High school students need goals and the business education instructor must make his students aware that establishing goals is the first and most vital step toward their fulfillment. (AG)

Current concerns of the discipline geography are presented. The following topics are discussed: 1) space and time; 2) space as area and space as an organizational framework; 3) ecological geography and social geography; 4) landscape and flows; and 5) general geography and regional geography. The journal is available from Unipub, Inc., P. O. Box…

One effective method of motivating the disabled learner is the use of student-selected specific goals for learning tasks. (CL)

Goal-differentiation by decision-makers were examined in terms of the: 1) perceived importance to cooperatives of 4 social system goals; 2) pressure felt to achieve the 4 goals; and 3) correspondence between perceived importance and pressure. (NQ)

Part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University.

Summary of Two presentations to Guidance Section of Div. of New and Related Services, Dec. 10, 1968.

WHEN JEFFERSON STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE OPENED IN 1965, 49 PERCENT OF ITS FACULTY WERE FORMER ALABAMA SENIOR COLLEGE PROFESSORS, 41 PERCENT WERE FORMER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, AND 10 PERCENT CAME FROM PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES IN OTHER STATES. THIS VARIETY, PLUS THE SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ALABAMA JUNIOR COLLEGE SYSTEM, NECESSITATED A…

Attempts to answer fundamental questions of being, time, space, existence, perception, and physical phenomena are presented. Mass, empty space, reality, gravitational attraction, continuity, discontinuity, and relativity are among the "things" and "nonthings" for which relationships and explanations are provided. A reality model is constructed of…