This document contains comprehensive information designed to orient part-time faculty members to Tanana Valley Community College. The handbook includes information on the background, goals, and objectives of the college; college degree and certificate programs; administrative organization; birth of college courses; part-time instructor services…

This study attempted to assess directly whether children who had had an imaginary companion were significantly different from those who had not, in intelligence, creativity, and waiting ability, each of which had been identified in previous research as an important correlate of this phenomenon. A total of 84 children participated in this study,…

This research paper presents a model of organizational effectiveness based on the open system perspective and tests four hypotheses concerning organizational effectiveness factors. Organizational effectiveness can be defined as the extent to which a social system makes progress toward objectives based on the four phases of organizational…

This report describes the evaluation phase of a 2-week seminar held at the University of Kentucky on June 12-23, 1967, and designed for supervisors and teacher educators of teachers of persons with special needs. The general objective of the seminar was to orient persons in leadership positions in vocational education to the characteristics,…

Effective leadership is required for positions of elementary school administration, and this leadership can be acquired and improved. In recruiting for the principalship, the greatest potential source is the teaching staffs of elementary schools. The time to select principals is when none is needed because the administration then has time to…

Growth of colleges, varying faculty experience, and program and student body diversity have accentuated the need for sound faculty orientation and in-service programs, especially where innovation, development, and use of new instructional media are stressed. After interviewing 11 faculty members at three colleges, the author has prepared 23…

Building Research studies show that overheating because of excessive solar heat gains can be troublesome in buildings of lightweight construction with large areas of glazing. The work being done at the Building Research Station provides the data for calculation of peak temperatures resulting from solar heat gain. Attention is given to window size…

The motive to avoid success has been conceptualized as an ambivalence in life-goal directions, particularly characteristic of white college women. The presence or absence of the motive to avoid success was found to interact significantly with two experimental sets of instructions: Difficult vs. Easy (Experiment 1) and Internal vs. External…

The author reviews research which examines a specific aspect of achievement arousal concerning the variable, "self-importance" of immediate activity. It also examines the relationship between "self-importance" and "future-importance"--that is, the extent to which possession of a certain personality attribute is believed necessary for achieving…

This study examined the effect of goal-setting on the achievement and attitudes of 108 boys and girls from grades 1-4. Pupils in Group I participated in four goal-setting conferences with the experimenter. Pupils in Group II also had conferences but class study topics were discussed and students did not set goals. Group III was a control group…

This paper comments on some of the possible uses and values of the Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI), an instrument by which a college community can delineate institutional goals and establish priorities among them. In the practical sense, the establishment of institutional goals is an essential element in any kind of systematic institutional…

This report presents and evaluates a simple thesis: that privacy, a manifestation of human territoriality, is a fundamental bio-social need. Aggression can serve to insure privacy. Privacy, then, allows one the freedom to explore the environment. It permits intimacy with others, and it fosters access to one's own inner feelings and experiences, a…

Goal analysis is a procedure useful in helping to describe the meaning of the desired goals; whether these goals deal with attitudes, appreciations, or understandings. This book aids people in making better decisions toward their achievement and in recognizing progress and success. Four major parts describing important aspects of goal analysis are…

This study investigated two functions that instructional objectives might fulfill in the learning situation: (1) organization and (2) orientation. One hypothesis was that instructional objectives can provide organization to learning materials. In this respect, objectives would provide little help when accompanying highly structured learning…

The orientation course, described in this article, was intended to provide some help and guidance for students as they approach adolescence and enter a new educational environment. (Author/RK)