The "psychological isotope" technique was used to study the effect of leadership style on group process and productivity, by planting identifiable units of information with specific group members. Data indicated that the movement of these traceable bits provides data on the flow of information in the group, the relative influence and…

This booklet is designed as a discussion document for teachers concerned with improving the student teaching experience. It is divided into two sections, discussing the role cooperating teachers and student teachers play in the student teaching field experience, and begins with an introduction describing the current status of student…

Data on the program of The Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies were gathered through content analysis of 100 unsolicited letters from conferees, analysis of before and after questionnaires used with a conference and a control groups and given to four spring conferences in 1964, and analysis of the Theological Studies Inventory used before the…

This paper discusses the effects of pretraining counseling clients for group therapy sessions. In an attempt to speed the group process and give maximum coverage to all college students requesting group therapy, pretraining experiences were given to members of three experimental groups and were compared to one control group. The experimental…

Prepared for distribution at the 1975 Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, this bibliography was assembled from the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE) computer files of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Annotated CIJE and RIE entries…

This paper describes and analyzes all of the activities of the Berkeley, California school superintendent on September 20, 1973, a fairly typical workday. Included is a chronological log of each event and personal encounter during the day. All incoming and outgoing correspondence and phone calls for the day are also listed. Altogether the…

Since opinion leadership has been found to be a major factor in interpersonal influence, the ratio between males and females selected as opinion leaders provides a strong indication of the comparative value placed on male and female opinions in a society. The results of the series of studies reported indicate that major changes in opinion…

To determine if opinion change might be dependent in part on the interpersonal needs of the participants of seven seminar sections, need level was measured by FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation) in three areas: inclusion, control, and affection. Three nonresidential groups met weekly for 15 weeks; four residential groups met…

This book assesses the nature, advantages, and limitations of the nondirective or community development approach to social betterment. Two advantages are claimed for this approach: people are more likely to act on what they have freely decided to do than on what others have tried to persuade them to do; through participation in the process of…

This study tested the relationship between self-perceptions of leader behavior by 57 directors of university conference operations, and their perceived degree of autonomy and role conception. The directors responded to an instrument consisting of five background questions, 100 leader behavior statements, 25 items on autonomy in decision making,…

An investigation of a theory of "idiosyncrasy credit" which was developed by Hollander (1958) as a framework for understanding status and conformity, was undertaken in the community college setting. Idiosyncrasy credit represents status and allows for behavior which may exceed the "limits" set by the common expectancies of a group. The specific…

This handbook is written to give groups of parents and citizens the insight and basic tools they need to develop their leadership potential. The four chapters focus on leadership styles, strategies of a leader, group functions, and motivation. Because the development of leadership is so closely related to organizing for action, this handbook…

This study of group process evaluated the relative effectiveness of facilitator-directed (FD) and self-directed (SD) personal growth group treatments in inducing change in the level of group member interaction. Examination of treatment effectiveness was accomplished through an interaction process analysis approach, the Hill Interaction…

The questions of the value of structure in groups and the value of experience in group leadership merge when the two areas of conflict are considered together. The present study was concerned with effects of an interpersonal growth contract and of leader experience on encounter group process and outcome. (Author)

Style and situation variables combine to predict teacher perceptions of principal effectiveness, superordinate perception of principal effectiveness, and principal innovation effort. (Author/IRT)