The College and University Environmental Scales (CUES) were used to investigate possible effects of the Group Life Seminar (GLS) on freshmen's perceptions of the Kansas State University environment. The findings suggest that the GLS participants perceived the campus as being more practical, friendly, open, and academically challenging than did…

The present study investigated the relationship between spatial placement of human figure drawings and measures of test anxiety, time estimation, and conceptual maturity. Results are discussed. (Author)

A follow-up study of teacher education graduates (N=160) was conducted to determine the nature of their current employment. Teacher education graduates simultaneously sought academic and nonacademic employment. The study supports a growing contention that teacher education programs are a liberal arts option with a vocational choice. (Author)

This research examined whether the "will to manage" is diminishing by use of the instrumentality theory of motivation. Measures of outcome importance and the instrumentality of a managerial career in attaining the outcomes were determined. Results supported the hypothesis that the "will to manage" is declining. (Author)

Information in the literature stresses the use of more humane approaches to education. The number of titles for the last 10 years was counted in the Education Index. The results indicated that there is a significant trend toward an increasing number of titles published. (Author)

An evaluation of Florida's elementary school counselors was conducted in an effort to determine what they do and the impact of their services. The study was conducted over a three year period. Results are discussed. (Author/HMV)

"How to keep better track of our teaching education graduates?" was the question that sparked development of a model follow-up program at Pennsylvania State University. (Author)

An automated stimulus fading procedure was used to strengthen sexual responsiveness to adult stimuli in two pedophiles. The degree of responsiveness was indicated by changes in the penile response. Implications for future research are discussed. (Author)

Male and female counselors at three levels of training/experience conducted an initial interview with a female confederate client. Videotapes of these interviews were viewed by 120 undergraduate males and females who rated the counselors' expertness, indicated counselor behaviors that contributed to their judgments, and rated their willingness to…

This study provides empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that it is possible to construct a valid interest inventory consisting primarily of items that have been pretested for sex balance. (Author)

The author reexamined the relationship between sex and empathy using graduate students as subjects. The results show that, contrary to Olesker and Balter's findings, for the subjects there was no significant difference in empathic ability whether judging members of the same or the opposite sex. (Author/SE)

The study describes one phase of an Adolescent Pregnancy Project. Based on a sample of high school youth, this analysis focuses on their understanding of the consequences of childbearing during adolescence in terms of health of the mother and the child and its impact on family life. (Author)

Tested the hypothesis that practice has a positive effect on several kinds of student learning in a functional marriage course. The major finding in the data was that a workbook type of practice had a significant and important short-term and long-term effect on students' ability to apply abstract ideas. (Author)

The increasing popularity of sterilization underscores the need for knowledge about couples choosing male and female procedures. This research delineates four sets of variables that may be important for the decision and examines their relationship with the choice of male or female procedure among a sample of married couples. (Author)

Confirmed the hypothesis that women in female career-planning groups would be more able to make career decisions than women in sexually mixed groups, using high school students as the sample. The design called for three groups: one group included only women and two groups included men and women. (Author)