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Cology, Lorry J. – 1980
This compilation provides descriptions of and resource materials for 25 classroom activities or demonstrations for behavioral science courses. For each activity, the following information is provided: subject area, source, time required and materials needed. In addition, discussion questions and comments on the value and use of the activities are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Case Studies, Class Activities, Demonstrations (Educational)
Licata, Joseph W. – 1980
The theoretical framework for a center for infinity is based on four propositions: (1) Untapped human resources in educational leadership are infinite. (2) The dimensions of effective educational leadership approach infinity and, as a result, leadership development should be based on diagnostic specification of instruction. (3) A seemingly…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development
PDF pending restorationPitzl, Gerald R. – 1977
It is argued in this paper that the interdisciplinary course provides a setting for viewing the ordered relationships that exist among disciplines. The necessity of this approach is pointed out as it reflects the need for a highly disarticulated curriculum to address and find solutions to the complex problems facing the world community. A…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Global Approach
Duner, Anders, Ed. – 1978
Fourteen papers from an international workshop on research into personal development relative to educational and vocational choice are presented in this report. Representative titles of the papers are as follow: (1) problems and designs in research on educational and vocational careers; (2) opportunities, pressures and constraints: research into…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Conference Reports, Educational Counseling
Kerek, Andrew – 1979
Both as a method of measurement and as a theoretical hypothesis, syntactic maturity (SM) has profoundly affected thinking about verbal growth and ways to enhance that growth. On the positive side, SM is easy to use, requiring no elaborate training in grammar or statistics, and it is quantifiable providing an objective numerical index of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individual Development, Measurement, Research Methodology
Download full textPalo Alto Unified School District, CA. – 1968
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE PALO ALTO GUIDANCE PROGRAM WERE PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM WERE BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT GUIDANCE SHOULD FOSTER INDIVIDUALIZATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL CHILDREN BY PROVIDING CONDITIONS WHICH WOULD ENSURE THIS INDIVIDUALIZATION. THESE TWO THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS, REINFORCEMENT THEORY AND…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Decision Making, Guidance Objectives, Guidance Programs
Schellenberg, James A.; Wright, Mary U. – 1968
This study attempted to discover the characteristics of the developmental process whereby children follow a sequential pattern in their understanding of social relationships. A questionnaire was administered describing several simple dyadic situations in terms of one person helping or hurting another. The respondents were to indicate whether the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
University City School District, MO. – 1967
Two hypotheses were examined in this research project: (1) children with high level perceptual skills in the initial assessment will retain their advantage but will grow less in skills than children with low level skills development at the outset; and (2) after a period of skills development, children with high level skills development will show…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Experimental Programs, Individual Development, Individualized Programs
Leland, Carole A.; Lozoff, Marjorie M. – 1969
The purpose of the study was to investigate the psychosocial factors affecting the educational and occupational development of women undergraduates. Emphasis was placed on discovering manifestations and determinants of the development of autonomy. Divided into 2 parts, the report first surveys 2 decades of research literature concerning the…
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Individual Development
Berry, Jane – 1966
The increasing momentum of research on women's roles, education, and career accomplishments and an appreciation of the rapidity of social change suggest the exploration of male attitudes concerning women's roles, life planning approach appropriate for the 1980's, possible life patterns, and counselor training for advising girls and women. Little…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Planning, Counselor Training, Females
Boshier, Roger – 1977
In an attempt to test the extent to which attitude change occurs as a function of social role, data was collected on two occasions occuring five years apart (1969 and 1974). Subjects were 72 persons aged 17-19 years old in their last year at high school. They completed the author's modification to the Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale in 1969…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Attitude Change
National Education Association, Washington, DC. National Association of School Counselors.
This brief personal planning program takes the form of a self-survey where the student answers questions to which there are no right or wrong answers. The first part is called Where am I Now?; the second is Where do I Want to Be?; the third is How do I Get to Where I Want to Be? The first part requires fairly objective responses, while the other…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Decision Making, Individual Development, Models
Williams, Grace – 1971
The worktext was developed, as part of Project SPAN (Start Planning Ahead Now), for the use of junior high school students. Its purpose is to help them assess their personal attributes and qualities and understand how they relate to future employability and how they can help in the selection of vocational goals. Emphasis is placed on the…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Planning, Individual Development, Instructional Materials
Brewer, James H. – 1976
This mini-guide helps students understand moral concepts and values so that they can better evaluate their own behavior. It also helps them to recognize what may happen when they act in a certain way. The guide begins with an exercise in which the student matches words that describe good values and their opposites. The next exercise calls for the…
Descriptors: Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics, Individual Development
Graves, Donald H. – 1976
Children's dependence upon the teacher in all aspects of the writing process in the elementary classroom must be replaced by the development of self-critical tools in the young writer. To help this development, the teacher should look at the nature of the writing process, with its three steps of precomposing, composing, and postcomposing, and then…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Conferences, Elementary Education, Individual Development
