The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes and feelings of teachers of family life and sex education seeking to determine how they perceive the role of the sex education teacher as it relates to other teaching roles in the educational system. (Author)

This study investigated perceptions of the role of the high school counselor between groups and among members of each group of school counsellors, teachers, and principals in Alberta high Schools. Results revealed that counsellor, teacher, and principal groups agreed on the role functions of the secondary school counsellor. (Author)

Two aspects of self-referent accuracy (SRA), a person's ability to judge accurately how others regard him are investigated

Reviews two inflexible characterizations found in the literature, and argues for the superiority of a third conception now gaining currency. It is then shown how the third characterization helps to understand blacks and women. (DM)

Work supported in part by four U.S. Public Health Service grants. (VM)

Author believes that students are rejecting stereotyped views of sex roles because they find them inappropriate to contemporary life. The current college generation hopes to achieve greater overlap in the spheres of activity reserved for men and women. (Author/CB)

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish several different ways in which phonemic information might be employed in spelling, to examine some empirical data on the consequences of using these different information sources, to formulate hypotheses about the underlying processes involved, and to suggest possible implications for the learning and…

Authors' findings substantiate the view that reliance on any single test of front-back (which is based upon the child's own body) is likely to yield a misleading picture of the quality of the child's knowledge of front-back, (Authors/MB)

If the measures used in this study were valid indicators of phenomenal environmental oppressiveness, then it would seem that suicidal adolescents do not see their world as any more overwhelming or overpowering than do others of the same age. (Authors)

An analysis of information exchange about a Corps of Engineers water management project reveals inefficiency in mass media communication, thus inhibiting knowledgeable public action. The particular failings of current communication channels and procedures (or lack of them) are documented, and suggestions are made for increasing the contribution of…

Blacks are urged to change their attitudes and the attitudes of those who work with them to move from a pattern which sees people as clients or patients to one which views them as constituents who can and should have something to say about what happens to them. (Author)