Recent surveys of leadership succession planning in Catholic schools in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory of Australia have confirmed the growing shortage of persons applying for positions of principal in Catholic schools in those states and territory and examined reasons for the decline in numbers.…

A statewide census of all Colorado's handicapped citizens led to a research project which was designed to assess the vocational education and service needs of Colorado's handicapped youth and develop guidelines to modify and improve the existing secondary vocational programs to meet these needs. After collecting the data (primarily by survey), a…

Canonical variate analysis was used to examine the relationship between student ratings of instructional effectiveness and the psychological press of the classroom environment. A sample of 29 classes at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, completed two instruments which required approximately 50 minutes of class time. One significant…

Using a counseling technique format of video and audio-taping, feedback, modeling, and role playing, the effects of taking an active counseling role by the counseling supervisor was shown to produce changes in counselor-trainee personality characteristics, as measured by the MMPI. Significant changes were noted in seven of the 15 variables,…

The Urbana-Champaign Adolescent Diversion Project (ADP) involves children, parents, professors, graduate and under-graduate students, policemen, teachers, and community social service workers in a cooperative effort to divert youngsters in legal jeopardy from the juvenile justice system. Its three goals are: (1) to provide juveniles with an…

The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to evaluate the test-retest reliability of four theoretical measures (distance, angle, vertical, and horizontal error) of the Felt Figure Replacement Technique (FFRT) (Kuethe, 1962); (2) to assess sex differences in performance accuracy for those measures found to be reliable; and (3) to examine…

The counseling referral process of academic advisors, resident assistants, and student personnel workers referring students to the University Counseling Center was assessed. The Referral Process Inventory (RPI) was developed to assess four areas related to the referral process. The results indicate differential knowledge of referral between groups…

Within a theoretical framework of role theory and systems theory, this study investigates differences in role expectations held for school psychologists in IGE schools by principals, unit leaders, teachers and school psychologists; and the relationship between agreement on expectations and ratings of the performance effectiveness of school…

This research explores the interface of the careers of work and marriage-family among new workers in any energy-related impacted community in Wyoming. This impact has brought many changes to the Rocky Mountain West, including the migration of thousands of persons to fill the jobs created by the extraction, processing and construction operations.…

An alternative operationalization of perceived marital power is proposed. Four types of power structure are identified and described: equalitarian marriages, husband dominated marriages, wife dominated marriages and marriages with differently perceived power structures. Two other variables (spouses' influence techniques and the use of physical…

This is the first volume of the final report of the Information and Referral Center Study, which was funded by the Administration on Aging, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The overall project objective, as stated in the initial grant application, was "to facilitate the development of a more useful, effective, and comprehensive system…

The well-known study on fear of success (FOS) by Horner (1968) asserted that women low in FOS do better on achievement-oriented tasks under competitive conditions, while women high in the motive do better when the situation is non-competitive. This paper critically reviews the methodology of this study and concludes that the statistical test…

This study centers on the difficulties experienced by many students in making the transition from secondary school to university. The experimental program involved assigning incoming freshmen to small groups led by upperclass honors students. The groups met at least once weekly, with the senior student acting as resource person to encourage the…

Forty female undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of four stress-inducing conditions: one group was given a defensive strategy in the form of denial, rationalization, and intellectualization self-statements (Film S-T); a second was given self-statements designed to help them control their arousal (Arousal S-T); a third group was given…

The first volume of a six-volume final report describes the activities and findings of a research project to identify the policy-related aspects and technology involved in efforts to aid disabled individuals in the United States. In Chapter 1, various types of technology assessments are explained, and general results of the technology assessment…