Examined the percentage of time college counselors spent performing nine counseling functions. Findings indicated over 50 percent of the counselors' time was spent on vocational, educational, and personal counseling. Found significant relationships for small-large and medium-large colleges and significant differences across three college sizes for…

Rehabilitation professionals were surveyed to determine use of behavior management procedures after three-day training workshops. Those trained within the previous 15 months reported more frequent use of specific procedures than those trained less recently. The need for consultants and additional training were frequently cited. (Author/GDC)

Described is the development of the Self-Schedule System, which aims at optimizing instructional time by teaching students to manage their own time and tasks. Program components for training students and for providing structural and ecological supports for flexible usage of school resources are outlined and research findings discussed. (SJL)

Reports on the mutual advantages to student-employer work relationships , and urges colleges to act as catalysts between the two. Employers who carefully plan hiring part-time college workers can realize economic and human resource development benefits. Benefits accruing to part-time student workers fall into three categories: financial, career…

Fifth-graders listened to a tape incorporating fast and slow vocal and instrumental excerpts within the generic styles of rock/pop, country, older jazz, newer jazz, art music, and band music. A preference hierarchy emerged favoring the popular styles. Across pooled styles, faster tempos and instrumentals were slightly preferred. (Author/SJL)

A principle component analysis with oblique rotation of the Test Anxiety Scale for Children revealed five cognitive/worry-oriented factors and two emotional/somatic-oriented factors, using data from 849 fifth graders. Achievement motives, future time orientation, and ability were the most important factors, whereas instrumentality revealed itself…

Uses the language and processes of instructional design and development to define relevance and to apply that definition to what is and isn't being done in instruction through a model that emphasizes time, instructor control, and location for practice opportunities as they relate to the objectives. (Author/CHC)

Four types of kindergarten programs varying in time scheduling and planning for and reinforcement of task orientation were defined and their effects on four- and five-year-old pupils observed. The task orientation of the children varied with the degree of program planning to enhance it. (Editor/SJL)

A study of third-year medical students, using disproportionate sampling fractions to oversample among women and racial and ethnic minorities, suggests a considerable interest in part-time or shared-schedule residency programs, particularly among married women students. Interest in such programs is also related to specialty choice. (JMD)

Presents citations and abstracts for six documents from the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges collection dealing with continuing education enrollments and community service programs. (CAM)

Strategies were based on a low-key consultative technique designed to build community-college ownership of the program. The project resulted in staff-development activities at each college, including resource handbooks for part-time faculty, meetings with full-time personnel, and greater access to existing services. (Author)

The results of a study designed to determine the relationship between time students on preceptorships spend in the emergency room and their self-judged anxiety while working there is reported. As a result of this study, program administrators have encouraged preceptors to expand emergency room experience. (Author/MLW)

The author suggests the use of chronobiology--the body's 24-hour cycle rhythms--to chart children's physical, emotional, and mental reactions in order to more realistically and productively structure learning activities. This exercise also involves math and science skills. (KC)

An estimated 40 million adults in "career transition," it is suggested, may make the difference between institutional retrenchment or closure on one hand, and survival or even expansion on the other hand. An adult education "weekend college" at Marymount College is described. (MLW)

Children, below- and above-average intelligence, were administered tasks involving matching information between auditory/visual modalities and temporal/spatial presentations. The below-average group made more errors and matching problems were not particular to one modality. Factor analyses did suggest that matching processes varied with level of…