In an attempt to differentiate between inmates who are responsive to therapeutic intervention and those who are not, 41 personality, educational, and cognitive variables were entered into a multiple discriminant analysis design. An 80% successful discrimination was obtained between "program successes" and "program dropouts."…

Study compared expectations of female and male midshipmen entering the United States Naval Academy's intellectual-social-cultural environment as elicited through the College and University Environment Scales, Second Edition. Comparison of perceptions of the environment of upper classmen and faculty with environmental expectations of freshman…

This study evaluates the reliability of profile analysis for assessing differential abilities on the McCarthy Scales for Children's Abilities (MSCA). Subjects were enrolled in private schools. Results indicated 70.9 percent of the sample showed profile variability not reasonably accounted for as real fluctuations in measurable abilities. (Author)

Groups of emotionally disturbed and nondisturbed elementary and junior high subjects were tested for ability to recognize primary emotions in facial expressions. Emotionally disturbed groups were found to be significantly less proficient both for over-all emotion recognition ability and for several individual emotions. (Author)

A further understanding of the relationship between self-concept, race, or sex and career maturity was sought. The results indicated that self-concept seems to have differential impact on career maturity, depending on the race and sex of the participant. (Author)

Possible discrepancies between client and counselor assessment of clients' problems were examined. Attribution theory suggests that counselors perceive clients' problems to lie with the clients as persons, whereas clients perceive their problems to be a result of situational pressures. Both groups perceived client problems as relatively personal.…

The predictive validity of the American College Test (ACT) for two classes totaling 2,289 students was investigated at successive intervals over four years of college. Correlational coefficients and expectancy tables substantiated the validity of the ACT for prediction of GPA, for progress, and for graduation within four years. (Author)

The Quality of School Life Scale (QLS) is an instrument designed to measure students' perceptions of their school experiences. Such an instrument may aid educators in evaluating students' perceptions in the three areas identified by the QSL: satisfaction, commitment to classwork, and reactions to teachers. (Author)

The introduction to this paper seeks to clarify and distinguish the concepts of "conflict,""conflict of interest,""hostility," and "violence." The main part of the paper describes the Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales, which are designed to measure the use of reasoning, verbal agression, and violence within the…

Analyzed seven subsamples of young males, homogeneous with respect to race and age, who were unmarried and in school in 1966. Those in the younger cohorts who had married early had less educational attainment were less likely to be enrolled in school in 1970, and had lower educational aspirations. (Author)

Control over land, a scarce resource for farmers, is found to be the source of women's power in a community of Illinois farm families. Women appear to make a trade-off of lower status and less power for male management of the family enterprise, which assures them a financially secure widowhood. (Author)

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery measures general ability, trade-technical experience, a spatial factor, and a clerical factor unlike traditional measures of clerical aptitude. Established procedures for test review are inadequate for generating an informed opinion regarding a test that is heavily promoted and that changes from year…

This article examines and discusses differing levels of accuracy in the communication of feelings provided by teachers in the classroom, and the effect upon development. The findings suggest the need for school personnel to acquire increased skills with regard to interpersonal communications in an effort to maximize student development. (LPG)

This study was an examination of the affective regard of preservice teachers toward gifted children. Results indicate that the preservice teachers with specific training related to the gifted have a moderately positive affective regard of those children. (Author)

Perceptions of study habits were compared for internally oriented subjects who were exposed to effective study techniques and those who were not. Illustrated post-tests for the interactions revealed patterns reflecting upward shifts for subjects exposed to effective study habits. (Author)