A report on a study of marijuana, the college student who smokes it, his relationship to his school, his family, the law, and to society in general. One hundred and one respondents drawn from the campus of three major universities provided the information. (Author)

Sixteen beginning analytic geometry and calculus classes (442 students) followed eight testing regimes for one academic quarter. Three aptitude subgroups were identified in each class. Classes to which daily quizzes were given achieved significantly higher on a specially constructed test than those which had only a single midterm examination.…

A double cross-validation design was used to study the stability of the canonical correlations between the SVIB and the MCI for male freshmen engineering students. Only the first canonical variates produced high correlations for the cross-validation samples. (Author)

The study found that counseled students graduated at a higher rate within four years and use of either service was associated with a reduced rate of leaving in bad standing, grade point average below 2.0. The results define a potential accountability basis for these services in terms of educational outcomes. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to clarify the validity of the PIAT when used with primary age children classified as educable mentally retarded. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that a discrepancy exists between how principals see themselves functioning and how they feel they should be functioning. The authors feel school psychologists must work with the principal to bring about the desired change. (Author/HMV)

This study investigates the relationships between the ITPA, which measures the development of specific language abilities, and the CAK, which is the most readily available measure of the development of conservation, in a sample of non-pathological preschool children. (Author)

This study examined differences in potential-client preference and believed effectiveness for counseling approaches. Analyses of responses to randomly ordered same-client, same-problem tapes of each approach indicated that the behavioral approach was significantly more highly preferred and believed more effective than either the client-centered or…

The study compared the arrays of high-interest occupations produced by the Strong and the Kuder. A frequency percentage count showed 85 percent of the pairs of summary codes had two identical characteristics, and some support was found for Holland's hexagon. The implications for further studies comparing the two instruments are discussed. (Author)

This investigation replicated and agreed with the findings of a recent study by Wittmer and Webster in which significant relationships consistently appeared between teaching experience and closed-mindedness in counseling students as measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale. The requirement of teaching experience for counseling practice is…

Female subjects in this study held an approximately uniform standard for healthy males, females, and adults; male subjects subscribed to this standard for healthy males and adults but held another, more stereotypically feminine standard for healthy females. Ways of reducing sex biases through counselor training are discussed. (Author)

The working climate has not changed appreciably for most women in administrative positions. Job satisfaction seems to come from a sense of personal worth rather than from a working climate. (Author)

Socially anxious males were assigned to a behavioral counseling group involving organized role playing and correctional feedback exercises, counseling plus group desensitization, a "microlab" emphasizing real-life interactions with females, a placebo procedure, and no treatment. Outcome criteria indicated superiority of both reeducative…

Examines whether or not psychiatric patients and normals share the same frame of reference on what constitutes a hierarchy of effective and socially accepted means of solving interpersonal problems. Patients, in contrast with normals, were found to be deficient in their ability to generate means of solving interpersonal problems. (Author/PC)

Four new experimental scales of motivation were constructed by applying a modified iterative factor analytic method to item responses of 346 subjects. The scales-tentatively identified as intrinsic motivation, self-enhancement, person orientation, and goal deficiency-should have special relevance to the educational and counseling objectives of the…