At the University of Minnesota role playing and simulation exercises were used in a new orientation program for foreign students. The goal was to help the foreign student define the roles he feels are important and to learn whether his solutions to problems are appropriate to his new culture. (Author)

The article includes excerpts from the keynote address at the 15th annual Indian Education Conference (April 5, Tempe, Arizona). (KM)

This paper presents a discussion of three problem areas that were delineated during the course of a field test designed to assess the effects of the "Heartsmart Adventures," an interpersonal skills curriculum developed from the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO) Theory as described by William C. Schutz. Students and…

The ability of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children to infer the position of an object in a room from information contained on a map was assessed under five conditions: (1) map aligned inside the room (the pretest); (2) map aligned outside the room; (3) map rotated 180 degrees inside the room; (4) map rotated 180 degrees outside the room; (5) map held…

This research explored three neglected facets of the relationship between athletics and achievement: (1) sex differences, (2) the broader range of extracurricular activities, and (3) the age range of adolescents. The sample consisted of 3000 males and females in grades 7 through 12. For both sexes, academic achievement was positively related to…

A nationwide survey sought to analyze hospital orientation and inservice education programs to determine their nature and costs with focus on differences in orientation costs for new nurses with three different types of preparation (diploma, associate degree (AD), and baccalaureate) and for cost differences in hospitals of varying sizes.…

A comparison of levels of aspiration and antecedents of achievement orientation was made based on interviews with Hawaiian-American, Japanese-American, and Pilipino- American high-achieving women and their mothers. Hawaiian-American women had more traditional life goals and lower educational and vocational aspirations; Japanese- American and…

Seventy-two unselected male and female Anglo- and Mexican-American drivers found their progress blocked by a car that failed to move after a traffic light turned green. These experimental trials were systematically varied among six intersections in a city of dual ethnic population. Half the subjects in each ethnic class were frustrated by an old…

Four field experiments were carried out to examine the effects of a violation of personal space on the "victims" subsequent behavior. (Editor)

A general framework is presented to help understand the relationship between motivation and self-regulated learning. According to the framework, self-regulated learning can be facilitated by the adoption of mastery and relative ability goals and hindered by the adoption of extrinsic goals. In addition, positive self-efficacy and task value beliefs…

Research supported by the Scottish Council for Research in Education.

Condensed from "The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, Volume 52 (October 1968), 130-35.

The major issues encountered by the testing staff of the Austin Independent School District when changing achievement tests were identified. The 1970 California Achievement Tests were replaced by the district with the 1978 Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. The major tasks were selection of a new instrument and securing funds to purchase it. However,…