This study aims to understand how faculty identity development is related to a differential use of writing genres in the teaching and research spheres of activity and whether this development follows different paths, on the bases of faculty perceptions regarding what they consider their main goal at university and their preferred sphere of…

Conclusions are: (1) psychologists and teachers report diversity in functions performed and responsibilities assumed by psychologists; (2) psychologists and teachers report differences in how psychologist distributes time and emphasis; (3) diversity exists on part of psychologists and teachers concerning functions of psychologists under more ideal…

Objective: This study examined the role orientation hierarchy among teaching, research, service, and administrative responsibilities of certified athletic trainers (ATCs) employed at the collegiate level. Design and Setting: Four single response role orientation questions regarding their actual, ideal, promoted, and most appropriate role…

This document reports on a study of how the eye and the hand become functionally coordinated during growth. A specific question researched is "How do children use their hands as perceptual tools for exploring objects in order to acquire information about them?" It was assumed that a pre-school child would have evolved a form of eye-hand…

In individual interviews, 145 students were exposed to a portfolio of 13 control advertisements and to one test advertisement which had three versions: the complete advertisement, the advertisement minus the headline and "subhead," and the advertisement minus the small photo and caption. Using the Kassarjian Inner-other Directedness Test…

The change process has been studied and also personal influence an opinion leadership, resistance forces, adoption, diffusion, and perpetuation of change, as these affect the change process. However, more research on the subject is required. (PT)

Seeking new frontiers" and role identifications" is more reflective of the orientations of the seekers than of fundamental newness. While a search for the new can and will be productive if the searchers are well grounded, much remains to be accomplished under commitments which long have been acknowledged by those more fully trained and…

Reports the results of the first phase of a project sponsored by the American Society of Training and Development. (EB)

A possible analysis of the functions of the university is that it is both a cultural and an institutional function. The cultural function centers on the pursuit of meaning, the institutional function on the acquisition of the material resources needed for this pursuit. Moreover, a great many future possibilities are open to the university once it…

Reports on a study of how people create names for individuals characterized by role descriptions. Concludes that context scenarios that involved the individual denoted by a role description elicited names less literally based on the actual role description than did less involving scenarios, and that less literal names appeared to directly…