Used personality characteristics, extracurricular participation, and selected demographic data as variables to identify potential participant and nonparticipant students in college sponsored extracurricular activities. Results suggest the questionable transferability of levels of participation from high school to college and the need to consider…

This paper proposes using nontest indicators, along with academic tests, to assess school effects on youth development. Relationships between indicators and tests are explored and examples presented of nontest indicators of intellectual development, career development, and health and personal safety. Data sources for indicators are…

Studied beginning counseling practicum students receiving supervision from advanced doctoral counseling students. Results indicated a positive relationship existed between trainees' perceptions of: supervisor characteristics, the therapeutic relationship, and satisfaction with supervision; but no significant relationship between ratings of…

Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of both enrichment and acceleration programs for the intellectually gifted. Concludes that acceleration is a better option for many students. (Author)

Includes presentations, an interview, and selected session report summaries from the 36th National Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Detroit, Michigan, October 1980. Issues addressed include the admissions process, political issues, counselor education and the need for long-range planning and renewed…

Grouping by type may increase a sense of community in residence halls. Residence life staff can develop programs that better address the unique needs of these different groups. Students who feel better about their living circumstances have more energy to devote to the intellectual requirements of college. (Author)

Describes a training method which explores the academic advising process, student development, career counseling and university resources. The adviser may serve as an adult role model for many students, increasing the importance of the counselor role. (JAC)

Using a developmental, learning-by-doing approach, teacher education must take deliberate steps to help teachers acquire the skills and understanding they need to foster the moral growth of students at all levels. (Author/MSE)

In a replication of an earlier test, frequency of student/faculty contact was found to be related positively to students' academic, intellectual, and personal growth, even after precollege differences were controlled. Quality of contact was related only to personal and intellectual development. (Author)

The liberal arts college that gives teacher education a high priority in its purpose, that commits itself to the intellectual development of teachers through a humanistic curriculum and that values teaching for its faculty, as well as its prospective teachers, can make a significant contribution to improvement of education. (MLW)

Women living in homogeneous, as opposed to heterogeneous, residence halls described themselves as more intellectual, more content, and more exuberant. Grouping students according to commonality of curriculum appears to suggest that supportive, growth-enhancing environments can easily be established without undue involvement by the staff. (Author)

Tailoring programs to fit children is different from designing programs that exclude them. The many skills exhibited in gifted behavior can be taught, learned, and acquired to some degree by all children. (CJ)

Explains a helping skills training program developed for undergraduate resident assistants. Program areas include: (1) exposure to various types of educational processes to improve skills; (2) active involvement in group process; (3) skill usage following program; and (4) observation and practice. (RC)

The article's message is for students to get help in finding out who they are and a start on the road to becoming it (the task of college). Picking the toughest college one can get into, one that has a history of contributing to moral and intellectual development, is essential. (Author)

A Survey of Reading Attitudes was administered to 431 intermediate-grade students, providing measures for eight different dimensions of reading attitude. Significant patterns of change were shown for the following dimensions: Expressed Reading Difficulty, Reading as Direct Reinforcement, Silent v Oral Reading, and Comics. (Author/GDC)