An address evaluating the environmental situation, presented by William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is contained in this document. Delivered for an Earth Day program at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 22, 1971, it stresses the point that environmental concern has changed from an era of…

The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of students living in a quiet resident hall to assess how they differed from other resident hall students personally and in terms of their environmental perceptions of the University of Missouri at Columbia. Thirty-five students were randomly selected from 2 "quiet" halls and…

The quality of library service in biomedical institutions ultimately depends upon basic unit librarians. Although the hierarchy is necessary, it can only have as much real authority and cooperation as institutions vest in it by their degree of understanding and sense of personal worth. Vital to this is the local peer groups, which serves two basic…

The primary aim of this study was to ascertain whether expectations affect children's performance on a measure designed to assess development of understanding of the Minimum Distance Principle (MDP) and its exceptions. There were three major hypotheses: (1) sentences harmonious with expectation should be more easily understood than neutral…

A presentation is given on training and development for leadership in the 70's. It is divided into three sections: (1) trends affecting the future of training and development, (2) responsibility of training and development for change through the learning process, and (3) looking at the role and behavior of the training professional. (CK)

The visual interaction of two strangers in a nonfocused situation (waiting room) was investigated. Amount of visual interaction decreased across time and with the increasing proximity of the interactants. Neither the sex composition of the dyad nor the sex of the looker was a significant source of variance. However, females received more glances…

In 1972 the University-Urban Interface Program (UUIP) of the University of Pittsburgh, a community service project, conducted 60 interviews with people living in the Pittsburgh area. These interviews focused upon the expectations people have of the university, how they get information about the university, and how they perceive the channels of…

A motion picture test of perceptual abilities has been developed for use as a screening test with elementary school children. Part I has 25 items in which the child must identify a hidden stimulus figure within one of four designs. Part II contains 25 items in which a child must identify from four alternatives a figure formed by three or four…

In March 1968, the Associated Organization for Teacher Education (AOTE) authorized a task force to study educational personnel for the urban schools. This report grows out of the task force examination of the use of paraprofessional personnel, in concept and operational terms. The report has been divided into three areas: a) educational manpower,…

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the university level multi-disciplinary course in the environment on bringing about heightened awareness of environmental events as reported in the mass media. A second, related study sought to determine whether particular values characteristically associated with the various…

THIRTY-TWO ITEMS OF BEHAVIOR CONSIDERED CRUCIAL TO SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STAFF RELATIONSHIPS WERE USED TO DETERMINE THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE FACULTY AND PRINCIPAL OF SIX SCHOOL STAFFS IN A DISTRICT OF 40,000 RELATIVE TO (1) THE IMPORTANCE THE FACULTY ATTACHED TO SOME OF THE PRINCIPALS' ACTIONS, (2) THE STAFF'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE VALUE HE PLACED…

THE ROLE OF VISUAL SENSORY DEFICIENCIES IN THE CAUSATION READING DISABILITY IS DISCUSSED. PREVIOUS AND CURRENT RESEARCH STUDIES DEALING WITH SPECIFIC VISUAL PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE NEGATIVELY RELATED TO SUCCESSFUL READING ACHIEVEMENT ARE LISTED--(1) FARSIGHTEDNESS, (2) ASTIGMATISM, (3) BINOCULAR INCOORDINATIONS, AND (4) FUSIONAL…

The roles of native teacher aides and home-school coordinators are discussed. (NQ)

Four groups of male undergraduates were instructed to perform complex cognitive operations when randomly presented single digits of a dichotic listening paradigm. An erotic tape recording was played into the nonattended ear. Sexual arousal varied directly as a function of the complexity of the distracting cognitive operations. (Author)

Some task variables that influence sentence coding, and the ways in which those influences appear to be manifested in performance were outlined. Trends in empirical data were examined as evidence for two classes of coding strategies. (Author/RK)