This paper reports on the findings of an investigation into the perceptions held by English students aged 16-18 years regarding listening comprehension in French and how they view the reasons behind their success or lack of it in this skill. The study suggests that listening comprehension is the skill in which students in the post-compulsory phase…

Teachers' views of education, their students, and their disciplines were assessed based on interviews with 20 faculty members from a small liberal arts college. The interviews were content analyzed, and the relationships between epistemological beliefs, course objectives, and views of student difficulties (e.g., skill deficiencies, personality)…

The purpose of this study was to determine at what grade levels and to what extent upper elementary school students used selected psychoactive drugs, reasons for use, and availability of selected drugs within the school. (Author)

This investigation explored married student perception needs through the application of a needs assessment approach created for this study. Married student needs or perceived life condition deficiencies are defined, and implications are made about the management of college and university student personnel programs. (Author)

Counselors are often confronted with phone calls from worried parents. This column outlines procedures used by two counselors when dealing with such calls. Their observations and interventions are reported separately, but their comments are presented as a dialogue. (Author/PC)

This paper presents a broad overview of information about delinquency, crime, and school discipline and violence in relation to U.S. youths. Part 1 compares U.S. and West Germany's crime rates for 1980-1985, while part 2 focuses on U.S. juvenile crime facts and on the contribution of the increasing number of U.S. family breakdowns to juvenile…

Most high schools face the problem of the chronically absent student. In the fall of 1985, the Centennial Effective Schools Committee in Gresham, Oregon established a subcommittee to examine chronic absenteeism among its student body. The committee interviewed 50 students with a history of poor attendance and developed a profile of the typical…

How TV programs that prepare students for life's decisions are produced. (HB)

This study identified personality differences between college students who had and who did not have emotional problems, and then used these personality differences to predict emotional problems in other students. (Editor)

The author relates the experiences of a Spanish-speaking boy who is entering first grade. The difficulties that result and what teachers and counselors can do to help resolve them are discussed. (RWP)

A CLASSIFICATION PLAN FOR MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS WAS CONSTRUCTED TO HELP THE COUNSELOR SAVE TIME AND STILL HAVE A USABLE RECORD OF HIS SESSIONS AND, WHEN ALL RECORDS ARE ANALYZED AND SUMMARIZED, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TYPES OF PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY STUDENTS. THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR CLASSIFICATION CATEGORIES CONSISTED OF (1) TWO…

THE PROBLEMS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS AND ADMINISTRATIONS WERE STUDIED IN THE AREAS OF FINANCIAL NEEDS, ATTITUDES, FUTURE PLANS, REASONS FOR WITHDRAWAL, REASONS FOR DECLINING ADMISSION, INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROBLEMS, AND SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OF A LARGE UNIVERSITY. A COLLEGE POPULATION WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS--A PURPOSIVE SAMPLE OF THE ACTIVE…

Contained in this report of a seminar convened by the Canadian Education Association in June, 1970, is a sampling of views and opinions of educators on the non-medical use of drugs among school-age young people. It presents a general overview of the considerations which must be taken into account before the schools can react with confidence and…

After meeting with two junior college administration and student groups, the problems of junior college unrest and dissatisfaction became more evident to the author. Several aspects of junior colleges must be considered: (1) junior college students are unique in their diversity of background and motivation, (2) the community is vitally a part of…