As a variable related to students' perceptions of teachers, it is recommended that educators attend to racial classroom composition to improve the classroom environment for optimal learning conditions. (Author)

Attempts to determine if imagination could replace physical color and pattern in adaptation stimuli known to produce orientation-specific color aftereffects. (Editor/RK)

Research by Posner and Mitchell (1967) was used to investigate levels of noise processing in testing subjects' ability to "gate out" the processing of irrelevant and unwanted material. Three experiments are reported in which subjects had to judge whether two letters were the "same" or "different". Noise elements were included to test attention…

Cosmopolitanism and localism are examined as they relate to professionalism. These concepts are identified as two separate reference group orientations and are discussed in terms of how they combine to provide a basis for obtaining the autonomy necessary to professionals. (TA)

Perceptions of the university community regarding the counseling center were judged to be of interest and the Counseling Appropriateness Checklist was used to ascertain these opinions from four basic groups, students, prior clients, instructional staff, and the Student Affairs staff. Results are discussed. (Author)

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Develops a classification that provides assistant principals with a useful framework within which, at both system and school levels, they might examine their behavior and consider modifications. (Author/IRT)

The difficulties in acquiring speech skills that are encountered by severely and profoundly deaf children may be considered in terms of the complexity of the speech signal. (Author)

Traditionally reversal errors in reading and writing have carried serious implications in primary grade education of the need for special education intervention and diagnosis. (Author/MH)

The authors, as counselor educators, share their perspectives of what identity problems counseling psychologists have and what choices the profession must make of it is to continue to develop and mature. (Author)

College freshmen (N=80) who scored near the mean on the Extraversion (E) and Neuroticism (N) scales of the Eysenck Personality Inventory were given falsified score reports. The findings are considered in terms of social desirability and reaction to stereotypical female sex roles. (Author)

A major response to the increased use of drugs among the nation's youth has been a demand for the inclusion of formal drug education in the public school curriculum. This paper partially examines whether or not there are differences in fact between trained and untrained teachers in two basic areas: (1) their knowledge about drugs; and (2) their…

Two-letter stimulus displays, differing in the magnitude of the horizontal spatial separation between the letters, were presented tachistoscopically to 10 retarded and 1 nonretarded adults. (Author/CL)

Activities are presented which involve folding and cutting paper, and then describing the finished product before opening the paper. (JT)

Reports research into the visual fixation of 3- to 11-week old infants as they observed adult faces. Reports a dramatic increase in fixations occurred between 5 and 7 weeks for all conditions. (SL)