Evaluates the impact of personal construct and psychodynamic group work on the psychosocial functioning of offender adolescents. Group work was effective immediately after terminating treatment in increasing helpful maturational processes and in reducing the less helpful maturational processes. Group work was also effective to some extent in…

Three important early childhood education policy developments have emerged in recent years in response to increased female labor force participation and growing recognition that a positive group experience enhances child development. These developments are: the specifying of numerical targets for achieving an expansion of ECE services; extending…

To date most models of empowerment have focused on teachers' personal empowerment, which is defined as intrinsic task motivation reflecting an employee's orientation to his or her work role. Interestingly, little scholarly attention has been turned to the interaction of empowerment and work-team membership, that is, to empowerment acquired from…

This empirical study examines methodologies used to assess individual contributions to group performance, with a special emphasis on ipsitive instruments. Five project management teams were formed in a graduate-level business course. At the conclusion of the projects, individuals were asked to assess both themselves and group peers by using a…

Recently, one of these authors was asked to facilitate a meeting of about a dozen Native Americans, all present and past employees of a large Federal agency, and members of a Native American affinity group. A Native American colleague and others from the group informed the author in preparatory session that the group would employ a "talking…

This article examines the relationship between student perceptions of team learning experience and communication style. Student group learning perceptions were evaluated and team communication style was measured using dyads derived from Myers-Briggs personality profiles. Groups containing similar personalities were classified as compatible,…

The performing arts can provide an avenue for creativity and healing to youth and adults in correctional settings. (Contains 1 endnote.)

Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…

A description of college student interaction in interracial classroom situations involving students froma predominantly black college (District of Columbia Teachers College) and a predominantly white university (The American University). During a four year period, six classes, meeting twice each term, participated. An analysis of the interaction…

The simulation scenario for a two-day problem-solving workshop proposes: "You have just been appointed to the Instructional Resources Laboratory Planning Committee Plan, organize, and operate the laboratory for two years." The purpose of this workshop was to bring fresh ideas to the problem of assisting faculty members to become better teachers.…

Learning is a metaphoric function in which the individual confirms or reorders his sense of reality by relating previous experiences with present ones. Outward Bound, an experiential learning approach, incorporates this insight in its theoretical foundations. The effectiveness of the metaphor is dependent on the extent to which the experience is…

This study examines the normalcy of adolescent risk-taking and proposes that the social adventures of adolescents have significance for the development and maintenance of interpersonal relationships and self-identity. To evaluate the narrative role of shared risks in transforming different types of relationships, an interview procedure was…

In September 1988, seven pilot school boards in Dumfries and Galloway Region, Scotland, met for the first time. The pilot scheme sought to learn about the functioning of school boards before they came into statutory existence in the 1989-90 school year. The seven schools represented a cross-section of Regional schools and ranged from a one-teacher…

The use of learning groups in the introductory psychology classroom at the University of Minnesota, General College, is discussed. Learning groups are used to get students to work together on tasks that teach them concepts or skills. It allows an active discovery process to take place as students use their own and other's resources while working…

At most institutions, freshmen are assigned to one of six residence hall types: freshmen-men; freshmen-women; freshmen-coed; freshmen-upperclass-men; freshmen-upperclass-women; and freshmen-upperclass-coed. In an attempt to clarify which of these residence hall arrangements most benefits freshmen, 2,200 freshmen (40 percent) attending 12 colleges…