Incoming freshmen were given orientation sessions to acquaint them with available counseling services by either an undergraduate paraprofessional, a professional staff member, or by professional staff and videotape. Analyses were made of immediate student satisfaction with presentations, and of the relationship between orientation received and…

Explains some of the implied assumptions about the nature of goals as things among which persons may reasonably choose or about the behavior of personal preferences or both -- inherent in proposed approaches to the selection and definition of instructional goals by Grotelueschen and Gooler (CTN; Nos. 8-9, pp7-21 1971-72). Argues that an…

The data suggests the program was successful because it made a big, impersonal university familiar to parents and because it lessened their main fears that their son or daughter would not succeed. It showed them that academic and social success are probable, that there are people and services well-equipped and ready to help all students. (Author)

The strength of career education lies at the state and local levels, where daily decisions must be made about what career education means and how it should be implemented. (GB)

It was hypothesized that an enhancement of goal objects would occur for children who were frustrated from receiving these goal objects. Three dependent measures were used to measure the frustration effects: size estimation, verbal evaluation, and selective attention. (Author)

Provides answers to queries about why custodial training courses flop, how better training programs can be set up, and what kind of training is appropriate. (MF)

This module's objectives were to eliminate the initial alienation of the incoming freshmen students and to facilitate the development of the human relations potential of these students. (Author)

Authors' findings substantiate the view that reliance on any single test of front-back (which is based upon the child's own body) is likely to yield a misleading picture of the quality of the child's knowledge of front-back, (Authors/MB)

Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)

The article concludes that authority oriented groups and trainers were least successful. Significant linkages have been found between data oriented trainers and two learning goals, and between people oriented trainers and two other goals. (Author)

The findings suggest that when asked what they would like to do now or immediately after college, most freshmen and sophomore women seem to prefer activities that differ from their actual plans for the future. This sample is probably representative of most freshmen and sophomore women who are anxious to assert their individuality and who desire…

Rehabilitation services need to state their objectives, taking into account needs of the individual, age distribution, work attitudes, and evaluation of vocational placement. (AG)

Results of comparing freshmen who had pre-college counseling with those who did not indicate any significant differences during freshman year. (CJ)