Readiness and remedial activities involving symbolic and cognitive stimulus elements were viewed as being superior to the currently widely used perceptual motor activities for readiness, corrective, and remedial instruction for children. (Author)

Purpose was to determine whether differences existed on certain variables for young children as seen by their mothers, and to construct an appropriate set of norms for use with children in the frequently diagnosed age range of seven to nine, with mothers as the informants. (Authors/CB)

Whether there is a direct, significant correlation between occupational stress and work performance remains to be further investigated. (Author)

Stress is neither stimulus, response, nor intervening variable, but rather a collective term for an area of study. (Editor)

Purpose of the research was to identify some personal and program variables which might be manipulated in the future to increase the number of dependable student volunteers. (Author)

Findings of this study suggest that it is preferable to attempt to control guessing through the use of the reward instruction rather than to attempt to control it using the penalty instruction or to encourage it using the insttruction to guess. (Authors/MB)

Results indicate the existence of discrimination against women in pay as well as in rank but do not allow clear estimation of the magnitude of the discrepancy. (AG)

Two experimental studies failed to support the assumption that letter-name knowledge facilitates reading. (CK)

Examined the relationship between instructional workload and budgeting of personnel positions and how this relationship changes as personnel positions become scarce. Longitudinal data suggest a direct relationship between the bureaucratic model and personnel allocations; tendencies to use the bureaucratic model increase as personnel positions…

Examined the relationship between university professors' (N=120) work orientation and attitudes toward their work. Found that a global work orientation is a strong predictor of attitudes toward intrinsic aspects of work in social sciences and a moderate predictor in physical sciences. (Author)

In male and female adolescents (n=30), the predictive relationship between social competency and peer relations and age differences in social competence was studied. Based upon a social deficit hypothesis, linear age differences were observed in social knowledge, locus of control, and a trend in empathy. (Author/PN)

Among high school students, males' educational and career aspirations were strongly influenced by their academic ability and achievement, while females' aspirations were influenced mainly by parental attitudes and their socioeconomic background. (Author/MJL)