Some "hidden" consequences of an organization's goals, practices, and procedures on the climates created for employees were reviewed, beginning with an exploration of some potential impacts of a lack of fit between goals and means to obtain goals on climate and eventual employee behavior, referring particularly to differences between product- and…

Relationships among two measures of job satisfaction and one of organizational climate, among seven production and turnover indices of organizational effectiveness, and between the two sets of measures were investigated in 50 life insurance agencies (N=522). It was shown that: (1) climate and satisfaction measures are correlated for some people…

Nonjudicial punishment is frequently the target of racial discrimination in the military because of the discretion permitted those reporting and disciplining violators. This study seeks to determine: (1) whether existing records indicate that nonjudicial punishment is administered without regard to race; and (2) whether blacks and whites perceive…

This study was designed to assess the impact of maternal role perception and expectations upon the use of early childhood care services. Additional information was sought about the effects of various demographic variables such as residence, use of child care services, marital status, family size, and levels of education, occupation and income on…

The hypothesis of this study is that there are no significant differences with respect to attitudes toward success oriented college and career goals of females between 12th grade: (a) males and females; (b) college bound and non-college bound; (c) college bound males and college bound females; (d) children of working and non-working mothers, and…

Three philosophical perspectives on communication research are identified, described, and compared. First, communication of "action," a one-way approach, is a type of "cybernetic" theory of communication involving observation and experience in developing patterns of communication performance. It is simplistic, has a weak capacity for replication…

Research investigated whether cognitive learning scores and perceptual distortion measures of basic airmen would be influenced by instructor rank. Four groups of students, each composed of high, medium and low ability individuals, were created; each viewed a 20 minute television lesson on how to study. They differed only in that each was taught by…

CCEP's Pupil Role Interview study includes an interview content analysis. This analysis deals with questions involving the way children view their learning environment, the aspects that are most prominent in the child's eye, and the match between the child's real and ideal learning environment. The content analysis revealed that: (1) program…

An exploratory investigation of police promotional examinations was made in an attempt to improve the testing procedures that were in use. A primary goal of the study was to identify a pool of performances (tasks, behaviors) of police sergeants, lieutenants, and captains that might serve as referrents for job-related test items for promotional…

The Swick-Ross Child Perception Inventory is an assessment instrument for examining the perspectives of teacher education students, inservice teachers, parents, school administrators, and other related personnel with regard to various affective factors that have been associated with successful teaching/learning situations. Forms A, B, and C are…

The purpose of this program was to demonstrate the effectiveness of a tape-recorded, sequenced program of auditory perceptual training in raising the reading and listening skill levels of students in grades two to six. Eighty-five boys and 67 girls in the second grade and 25 boys and 14 girls in learning disability group clinics in grades two to…

A teacher's role is to make the child totally aware of his world. Creative arts and crafts should lead the normal or handicapped child to increased awareness of and sensitivity to the world around him. Such basic concepts as shape, color, texture, symmetry, designs and patterns, movements, and distance perception can be developed through arts and…

A student teacher is often liable to be placed in a conflictive situation between faculty consultants and cooperating teachers who have widely differing conceptions of the role of the ideal teacher. None of the possible responses of a student teacher are conducive to effective learning, especially the decision to "get by." This conflict can be…

Prepared for use in outdoor and environmental studies, this manual provides a collection of activities which focus on awareness, represented as a process involving observation, interpretation, and application. Traditional subjects and processes are suggested for each component of the awareness continuum. However, because the activities are…

The purpose of this study was to see if a relationship between color sensitivity and skin pigmentation would affect performance on the WISC block design subtest when both the standard red/white design and the blue/yellow design were used. It was hypothesized that the white children would perform better overall because black children have been…