Reviews Caple's article on organizational change as applied to student development. Discusses Caple's ideas of self organization, autonomy and planning as management. Poses questions for personnel workers on implementing Caple's ideas. (Author/ABB)

Summarizes reliability and validity studies reported about the Student Developmental Task Inventory, second edition (SDTI-2), an objective assessment instrument based on Chickering's theory of psychosocial development described in Education and Identity. Outlines other findings related to differences in psychosocial development. (Author/ABB)

Proposed a causal model to examine the impact of resident living on student development. Tested the model with 4,191 college students. Secondary analysis indicated that the influence of on-campus living on intellectual and social self-concept is indirect and mediated through interactions with faculty and peers. (Author/BH)

Students studied over a 4-year period showed that growth on ego identity occurred not as freshmen but primarily during the upperclass years. (Author)

Participants in a student development experiment (N=60) were more satisfied with their college experiences, had higher grades, and achieved greater gains in self-concept than did a control group (N=60). (Author)

Responds to the results of Wilder et al. on Greek affiliation and attitude change in college students by: (1) examining goals for the educated person; (2) providing an overview of epigenesis; (3) giving possible developmental explanations of Wilder's findings; and (4) discussing ramifications of the results and suggestions for further research.…

This article proposes a model master's preparation program for student development specialists. It includes an evolutionary pattern for triadic roles assumed by professionals. Two major factors are emphasized: (a) three interrelated cores of learning (classroom internship and selfhood) and (b) a sharing task force (an integrating agent of…