Important concepts and skills necessary in learning the process of effective decision making are presented, primarily for the use of college and university freshmen and sophomores but also in other fields where knowledge for career decision making is important. The process is presented in a sequence of 10 chapters, though each can be used…

In order to analyze the environment of Central YMCA Community College (CYCC), information was requested on the Student Information Form, 1975, which dealt with three large areas: social issues, personal behavior, and future behavior in the noncollege world. This report compares the responses of three student samples--CYCC first-time entering…

This paper presents data bearing on the question of the effects of crowding on indices of stress and on one's perception of being crowded. A palmar sweat measure of stress was employed to examine inmate stress in relation to social and spacial density factors. The data suggest that increasing the number of people in a housing unit (and hence the…

Proxemic behavior was unobtrusively observed in open and enclosed environments with concurrent variation of the approach of subject to confederate or confederate to subject. The sex of subject and the sex of confederate were also varied, with nesting on the sex of confederate variable. A robust environment effect indicated that personal space is…

The purpose of this practicum was to develop an educational presentation in collective bargaining for the faculty, administration, and board of trustees at Pensacola Junior College. The report includes the background of collective bargaining in post secondary education, the status of collective bargaining in Florida under the recently enacted…

The series of activities are designed to provide experiences for primary grade students to: formulate goals, develop positive self-concepts, develop positive attitudes, evaluate career decisions, and adjust toward their career aspirations. The 36 activities focus on: self-awareness, values, personal growth and interests, work, occupational…

This study is one in a series investigating the relationship between motivation training and measures of individual motivation and school behavior of elementary school pupils. One-hundred and twenty-two seventh grade students from an inner-city school district were divided into experimental and control groups by random assignment of classrooms.…

There are more similarities than there are differences between hearing and nonhearing students in the adult education classroom. The main difference--the inability to hear words and sounds--can be overcome by cooperative work between the teacher and the interpreter. The interpreter can do much with what the teacher says and is able to convey…

This guide is designed for those interested in organizing and/or participating in short-term study abroad programs. The following main topics are treated in detail: (1) the nature of the program, (2) the budget, (3) winning administrative approval for the program, (4) announcing the program, (5) orientation, (6) the program director, (7) the…

The Committee on Foreign Students in American Colleges and Universities published its findings in 1963 and reviewed areas of need and made recommendations for strengthening educational exchange programs in U.S. universities and colleges. This reprint of the committee's findings is in three chapters: education's stake in International Exchange, The…

This report describes and analyzes various devices and techniques that may be utilized in planning local school administrative compensation. The document outlines broad overall goals for compensation planning, describes and evaluates the application of a compensation plan in the St. Paul schools, and proposes alternative strategies for…

Literature on program budgeting is synthesized. Program budgeting has progressed considerably in development and use, but only recently has it been used by the public schools. Program budgeting is practiced differently, depending on the mission of an organization or school district. With regard to schools, literature on the subject is mainly…

Because different educational goals are based on individual sets of values, research findings considered highly significant by one group of educators will seem irrelevant to others. Empirical studies of educational objectives are needed to investigate (1) the relationship between the way objectives are formulated and their quality, (2) the extent…

In order to investigate what concepts young children acquire that break down their inability to view spatial situations objectively, three groups of 16 children each were administered two tasks: (1) a box task, in which the child was asked to predict the location of objects upon a change in his location; and (2) a Piagetian task, in which the…

This report attempts to define and conceptualize the essential logic of the decision-making process which planners follow. The report proposes a look at decision-making theory to see if there exists some conceptualization of decision making which can be varied to fit the context in which decisions must be made. To provide for situational…