An interview with a junior college student provides an example of the pressures to attend college, the role of aptitude tests in selecting an educational institution, the difficulty in obtaining information concerning specific programs, the importance of recognizing individual interests and abilities, and the benefits of post-secondary education.…

Effective planning for child growth through the curriculum takes into account three things: 1) the pace at which children grow, 2) the individuality of every child, and 3) the need for guidance in meeting the problems of living. (ST)

This article defines moral education, gives current examples of classroom experience in moral education, literature and program materials available and lists some problems the idea is encountering. (JA)

The conceptual program for high school psychology described herein attempted to resolve the question of whether the cause should have a scientific or a personal problems orientation. (Author)

The contrast between the view of a distinguished theologian and the new humanistic psychology may shed new light on our educational predicaments. (Editor/CB)

The data in this study reveals that persons are the means by which students feel their lives are touched. The person versus things distinction was evident throughout the data examined. (Author)

The results showed that candidates who provided higher levels of facilitative dimensions subsequent to training had been more open to personal change prior to training and had experienced more personal change during training than did students who communicated low levels of facilitative dimensions. (Author)

The approach to outcome research described here has the double merit of preserving individuality and permitting pooling of data for overall analysis of results. (Author)

A teaching model, the Comprehensive Random Achievement Monitor, (CRAM) is built around the presentation of a final exam at several intervals and in several forms during the course. (MF)

Changing culture requires interventions invalidating old processes and conditions that facilitate the creation of new self validating processes. The personal growth laboratory becomes a temporary system of new self validating processes. Prepared for a conference on Intensive Small Group Process sponsored by Foundations Fund for Research in…

Intervention packages-planned units of instruction and practice designed to deal with specific student problems-offer a systematic economical strategy for counseling. This article suggest guidelines for developing and administering intervention packages. (Author)