Evaluation indicated the majority of undergraduates favored the grading option and opposed grading in general. Those with vocational orientation preferred traditional letter grading, whereas those who were "identity-seekers" preferred the grading option. (Author)

In an effort to humanize education and counseling, the author relates experiences with a nine-week course entitled "Search for Self" which was team-taught by another teacher and herself. Both the literature and the group activities centered around trust-building, communication skills, strength-building, values clarification, and self-study.…

Reports on a parent counseling program in which families participated in instruction and discussion of child-rearing methods. Ninety percent of those in the orientation phase expressed interest in a continuing program. One significant result is that parents are beginning to accept counselors as an integral part of the educational process.…

This article discusses ways in which secondary and college teachers can use the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. The archive contains videotapes of the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening network news since 1968, Presidential addresses and network commentary since 1970, and other news events. Research projects using closed-circuit television are…

Examines research on the frontiers of science which may lead to maximizing crop yields in response to increasing world demands for food and natural fibers. (JR)

Urban and rural school girls were randomly assigned to black and white examiners to be tested on an individually administered intelligence test. The interaction of race of examiner, race of subject, and location of subject's home on test performance was investigated. This interaction was not significant. (Author)

This research attempted to expand Piaget's study of children's thinking to include the content and the development of their concepts of death and the impact of experience on those concepts. One hundred twenty-two, middle-class, native-born boys and girls, aged three through twelve years were interviewed. Concepts were found to be composed of nine…

This study assumes that all suicidal and self-destructive behavior can be placed on a continuum from hopeful (H) to hopeless (S). The author attempts to show that there is an underlying continuum of hope corresponding to what we know about the statistics of suicidal behavior. He employs two operational hypotheses as tests of his ideas: (1) a group…

While research usually emphasizes the decrements of older persons, increases in human relations skills may be among the observable gains of aging. The present study, conducted in the Counseling Center of the Andrus Gerontology Center, evaluates the potential of using older volunteers as peer counselors. Subjects were 11 persons from a larger pool…

The case records of 348 homebound clients receiving vocational rehabilitation services from the New York State Homebound Rehabilitation Program were examined to explore attributes of homebound applicants, their rehabilitation experiences, and program outcomes. Data was summarized for characteristics which included age, most common major…

Many academic examinations exhibit sex differences in terms of entry figures and pass rates. This fact is illustrated by a selection of statistics from the British GCE "O" level examination results for June 1976. These results are discussed in terms of three possible causes: innate differences in intellectual functioning, sex role…

This document summarizes a comprehensive planning effort for the Baltimore area aimed at developing a constructive new approach for dealing with a major manpower and community problem: the situation of young high school dropouts. The program is predicated on the hypotheses that: (1) dropouts do not routinely receive counseling and referral…

In order to appropriately interpret norm referenced measures, we need to know the characteristics of persons in the standardization sample. Mercer (1977) states that evidence from three sources should be examined when deciding if pluralistic norms are needed. First, do racial-ethnic groups differ on important social, economic, and cultural…

Student withdrawals were compared to course completers in two variants of a contingency-managed lecture (CML) course and a personalized instruction (PI) course. Within both CML sections, withdrawals performed 10-25% worse on unit quizzes and 20-30% worse on review exams than did peers who completed the course. Within PI, withdrawals had a retake…

Researchers often claim validity for student ratings after finding a positive ratings/achievement correlation. This allegedly shows that ratings identify teachers who promote learning. But if students are not randomly assigned to classes, or if the correlation is not computed across classmeans, the correlation may result instead from a student…