By preparing illegible, unorganized, incomplete, or just plain sloppy documents, secondary schools often make it unnecessarily difficult for college admissions officers to evaluate the records submitted to them. An admissions director discusses some handicaps to communication and makes suggestions for schools reviewing the suitability of their…

Studied subjects' judgments concerning the affective and control connotations of sentences describing interpersonal relationships. Females judged interpersonal relations to be more extreme in affect while males judged the same relations to be more extreme in control. Implications for communication problems between individuals of opposite sex were…

Discusses how advisory committees can be used to improve communication between teachers and college professors concerning teacher education needs in the social studies. Guidelines for establishing a program advisory committee are included. (AM)

Examined frequency of verbal attention-seeking responses (VASRs) as an indication of level of social confidence. Veteran drug addicts received communication skills and assertiveness training. Comparison of VASRs indicated communication training was effective in improving social confidence. (RC)

Discusses work with small groups of care-taking relatives of frail, dependent older adults. Considers repetitive themes of concern expressed by the caregivers and their dependent relatives and some of the changes in attitudes and approaches of participants during and after the groups' experiences. (Author)

Summarizes ERIC documents offering suggestions for ways to conduct effective parent-teacher conferences. (FL)

Different concepts of profit may lead to communication problems in business negotiations. A study of Japanese and American business students' concepts of profit revealed Japanese unidimensional and American multidimensional conceptualizing of profit. (PD)

Therapists (N=250) completed questionnaires rating the frequency, severity, and treatment difficulty for 29 problems commonly experienced by distressed couples. Responses indicated a number of potential directions for research in marital therapy. Communication and alcoholism were rated as the most damaging and difficult problems to treat.…

Points out the difficulties an English teacher faces when trying to teach technical writing to students from other disciplines. Focuses on the problem of making technical writing assignments (and their evaluations) meaningful. (RL)

Couples planning marriage participated in a longitudinal study examining the predictive power of communication ratings. Intact couples (N=9) completed data at three follow-up points. Results indicated the more positively premarital couples rated their communication, the more satisfied they were with their relationship five-and-a-half-years later.…

In an attempt to improve the communication process and draw attention to some ideas that need further study, a communication model that deals specifically with the supervisor-teacher interaction process is presented. (Author)

The potential for considerable marital dissatisfaction among wives is clearly present. Wives want less controlling behavior from their husbands than the husbands prefer to engage in. They want to move closer to their husbands and want their husbands to share more intimately with them. (Author)

Faith in the effectiveness of personnel evaluation comes partially from its planned redundancy. Both supervisor and employee write with the second-level reviewer in mind, responding to what they think the other needs. The communication gap is caused by the lack of guidance from the reviewer regarding expectations and standards. (JOW)

Outlines some problems common to actors and teachers in generating appropriately expressive speaking voices. Basic skills discussed include loudness without tension, clarity of articulation, use of intonation, and manipulation of rate. (JMF)

The correlation between communication apprehension and fear of negative evaluation was significantly stronger for volunteers than nonvolunteers. The results demonstrated a network of behavioral relationships beyond the self-selected problem. Knowledge of these correlates could significantly influence decisions about the design of interventions.…