The selection procedures for community college trustees in Alberta were examined by means of surveying 35 newly appointed board members and soliciting their perceptions of the selection procedures. (JC)

The study assessed the perceptual effects of a range of second and third formant transition rates that occur naturally in the production of /w/ and /r/ sounds by children and adults. No general support for this property as a salient perceptual cue was found in this study. (Author/DB)

Exploring the ability of subjects to make accurate discriminations by active touch, two studies involving 20 sighted adults investigated sensitivity of the fingertip in perceiving length, using Braille cells as stimuli. Results indicated differential sensitivity of the fingertip to one parameter of active touch: cell height discrimination. (JW)

To evaluate the theory that central auditory processing deficits exist in the normally disfluent population, 40 adults were administered the Synthetic Sentence Identification-Ipsilateral Competing Message Measure. Results revealed a significant difference between the performance of fluent and disfluent normal speakers but not between ear…

Describes a classroom exercise in which a simple personality inventory is used to assess students' perceptions of their instructor. The data generated are used to illustrate the basic cognitive processes by which individuals interpret the behavior of others, as well as numerous perceptual biases that often render such interpretations inaccurate.…

Investigated two- to four-year-old children's sensitivity to perceptual and normative standards of comparison and their responses when standards conflict. Even the youngest children were capable of using normative and perceptual standards and could apply different standards of comparison when judging size. (RJC)

Perceptual and categorical similarity were varied independently in a concept-matching task administered to young children. Perceptual similarity proved to be the primary determinant of difficulty level. Superordinate and basic matches were equally difficult. When perceptual resemblance was minimal, most children were unable to recognize matches at…

The latency at which objects could be identified by 126 subjects was compared through line drawings (edge-based) or color photography (surface depiction). The line drawing was identified about as quickly as the photograph; primal access to a mental representation of an object can be modeled from an edge-based description. (SLD)

This article describes the efforts of three universities to revise their health education curricula based on the Role Delineation Project Curriculum Framework. The framework is being used to: (1) assess health educators; (2) determine the competence of health majors; and (3) plan and restructure graduate education. (Author/MT)

The author is the new executive director of the American Vocational Association (AVA). He presents his perspective on AVA's current role and responsibilities. (CH)

Examined the influence of counselor conceptual level (CL), client message complexity, and client disability status on counselor perceptions of client attractiveness. Results indicated participant preference for a low CL message regardless of participant CL or client disability status. No other main or interaction effects were found. (Author/BL)

Explored relationship between employees' participation in quality circle activities and perceptions of the influence they have on their job, characteristics of their jobs, and overall job satisfaction. Involvement in a quality circle was significantly related to employees' perception of influence, and some job characteristics, but not to job…