The Getzels and Thelen model presents several factors connected with use of large group instruction which calls for balance between concepts of student role held by school and by student. Evidence indicates that affiliation and achievement needs hinder a student from fulfilling his expected role within large group instruction. (Author)

Suggestions are presented for specific changes in social scientists' approaches to minority group problems. (Author)

The content of the situation is more important in the choice of courses of action than the pressures of either parents or peers, and parent peer orientations have a systematic, but minimal influence, on choice. (Author)

Tentative interpretation of results is that client centered group counseling is an inappropriate treatment approach with students of elementary school age. It places unrealistic demands on preadolescents to assume responsibility, and initiative, especially for verbalizing. (Author)

The research reported here has suggested some directions for future research designed to specify those environmental conditions that are most likely to lead to growth in internal control among children. (Author)

Important findings of the study indicate that regular cigarette smokers yield less to any smoking behavior changes than do the occasional smokers and well organized and executed anti smoking education programs should start as early as the eighth grade. (Author)

This article contrasts with a sample of college students the youthful members of two expressively alienated forms of nonconformity: student activists committed to confrontation tactics to force social change and disaffiliated college dropouts withdrawn from incompatible social conditions. (Author)

The research on cognitive style suggests that there is tremendous variability in the way in which individuals process information and hence in the manner in which they approach individualized instructional programs. (Author)

Despite the fact that the theory is good, the personnel officer must accept the disappointment that not all employees are yet able to accept its blessings and that not all managers are yet able to dispense it. (Author/EK)