Behavior change is the overriding, if not the only, goal in health education. Implications of this fact for the nature and method for educational diagnosis, curriculums, educational strategy, and evaluation are discussed. (Author/MJB)

The author demonstrates that many secondary school students have poor concepts of area and point of view; she argues for diagnostic teaching with respect to formal geometry. Examples of diagnostic activities for determining the development of concepts of space are given. (MN)

Recent research indicates that early right brain hemisphere specialization for spatial tasks may be due to sex differences. Early specialization has been demonstrated in males asked to perform spatial tasks. An apparently longer period of female brain plasticity may explain why males have a higher incidence of developmental language problems. (MA)

Regression discontinuity analysis was used to test the effects of dean's list on student performance in subsequent terms, indicating that dean's list earned early in the academic year helps to maintain the quality of students' academic work but does not affect the amount of work they undertake. (Author/BW)

Action goal setting uses power of peer influence in a healthy and constructive manner, and provides appropriate follow-up for many counseling and classroom activities. This process could help individuals of all ages to take more control over their behavior and create life-styles congruent with their abilities, interests, and values. (Author)

Describes conversion to a coeducational program of a residential school for delinquent girls. Discusses problems of staff attitudes, residents' reactions, destructiveness, sexual acting-out and drug use in the 70-student, private correctional center. (BF)

The hypotheses of this study were that role-taking training would increase (1) role-taking skills and (2) relative amount of peer interaction as compared with adult interaction. Results were that experimental subjects increased significantly in spatial role-taking only, although changes in conceptual scores were in the predicted direction. (Author)

The article deals with some of the special adjustment problems for a newly employed black manager, the additional orientation needed, and recommendations for top management to consider different attitudes and values, to establish an equal employment opportunity policy, and to provide appropriate orientation and evaluation systems. (MF)

The effect of fixed, gradually decreasing, or increasing delay of reward in discrimination learning on later delay of gratification was investigated in 150 male first-grade children. Increasing delays were found to facilitate delay behavior. This may be due to acquisition of coping responses or to the extinction of frustration. (GO)

Analyzes major stress-producing components of professional clinical child care and describes some aspects of the widespread "burn-out" phenomenon. Discusses the role of emerging child care associations in addressing the problem through various stress-moderating techniques, colleague support and training programs. (BF)

Evaluates the cultural conditions that affect the educational development of Mexican American students, the value orientations of Mexican Americans, and the influence of a poverty culture on Mexican American families. (RK)

The first article argues that using behavioral objectives for training rehabilitation counselors is an inadequate educational strategy for several reasons. It is followed by a response from several writers, and finally a reply by the original authors. (Author/BP)

Describes Wytheville Community College orientation program and its use of the resources of the Virginia Vital Information for Education and Work (VIEW) program to assist students in making curricular choices. Considers adult learners' use of Virginia VIEW resources, student reactions, and implications for other colleges. (DMM)

This response to suggestions that the technical services librarian may be replaced by a combination of paraprofessional staff and automated processes discusses the catalog librarian's role in staff training, systems analysis, integrated systems design, technical services management, and original cataloging. (CLB)

In its 1982 long-range school improvement plan, the Muhlenberg (Pennsylvania) School District targeted mathematical computation skills, focusing on (1) developing a management information system to document student achievement; (2) redesigning the curriculum; (3) aligning regular and remedial mathematics programs; and (4) implementing a…