This study develops tools for predicting the work participation by graduate female social workers using two main explanatory variables--"early sex role ideology" (an ideological position on future work and sex roles and early occupational aspiration) and "the sequence of marriage and professional education." These two variables were combined to…

Twenty-eight fourth graders, categorized as having high or low conceptual awareness, were used in this study to examine the effect of conceptual background on overt reading behavior; to compare overt reading behavior to post-reading performance; to analyze the relationship between overt reading behavior and cloze test behavior and performance; to…

A human relations laboratory for junior high school personnel was conducted as an in-service offering by two counselors. The purpose of the laboratory was to develop in the participants an appreciation of, and a capacity to perform, three primary learning tasks: (1) generation of valid and useful information; (2) organization of choices emanating…

Ten auditory and ten visual aptitude measures were administered in the middle of first grade to a sample of 58 low readers. More than half of this low reader sample had scored more than a year below expected grade level on two or more aptitudes. Word recognition measures were administered after four months of sight word instruction and again after…

A guide used by inservice teachers and agency caseworkers in three 2-week summer institutions (1973) for teaching visually handicapped children and adults how to read with the Optacon, a portable optical-to-tactile-converter, is presented. The institutes are said to have been of a two-year special education pilot project to demonstrate usefulness…

How do black females attempt to resolve the dilemma of femininity and high achievement goals? This paper discusses and reviews the nature of that relationship between femininity and high achievement need which has generally been of a reverse nature. The dilemma of being female for the black women is that she is being urged by society in general to…

Conducted during the summers of 1970 and 1971, this study examined the relationship between the maternal attitudes of Negro mothers towards women's role and their educational aspirations and expectations for their daughters. A random sample of 294 metropolitan and 259 nonmetropolitan black Texas homemakers was used. These homemakers were…

It is in relation to a sense of a tangible future that the shaming dimension of Americanization most directly threatens the mobility and integration of the assimilation-aspiring "ethnic American" of South and East European origin or ancestry. Uncertainty about one's future precipitates uncertainty about one's modes of conflict resolution…

The purposes of this study were to compare the cognition of students exposed to two different learning treatments and to ascertain the effect of the two treatments and the relationship of the three levels of visual-haptic aptitude to the number of trials required to reach the criterion. One treatment emphasized cognition through prerequisite…

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of Extension agents and volunteer 4-H Club leaders regarding a newly proposed concept of using county leaders in the conduct and expansion of 4-H Club work in Idaho. An objective was to find out if volunteer 4-H Club leaders felt qualified to conduct: (1) 4-H leader training, (2) planning…

To further clarify the problems relating to the transition from school to work, this pilot project was undertaken to study the way children's perceptions of adult work develop over the course of time. Information for the study was collected through a series of intensive, individual, private interviews with 162 children (ages 7-20) concerning their…

The purpose of this study was to prepare a descriptive analysis of the relationship existing between selected Nebraska school administrators and vocational education. Following a review of literature, 51 superintendents and 51 principals from three size categories of schools were randomly selected and personal and professional information was…

Role consensus is the extent to which agreement exists among the individuals in a group, between groups, or between cities. In three markedly different communities, teachers, principals, superintendents, school boards, and citizens were surveyed for their views on 45 norm items pertaining to the role of the elementary school teacher. Within each…

The investigation examined 2 issues: (1) how the values of the subculture influence the underachievement of the Mexican American boy and (2) what happens to him if he is placed into a new educational strategy. The overall purpose of the research was to ascertain promising instructional procedures for underachieving (as measured by standardized…

This pilot teaching unit is one of a series developed for use in elementary school science programs. This unit is designed to help children discover specific concepts which relate to sound, such as volume, pitch, and echo. The student activities employ important scientific processes, such as observation, communication, inference, classification,…