A Microcounseling Skill Discrimination Scale (MSDS) was developed to measure ability to discriminate between effective and ineffective verbal and nonverbal helping messages. Both trained and naive groups successfully discriminated between effective and ineffective verbal and nonverbal helping messages, with trained raters showing a greater range…

College teachers and their allies, including some research faculty, are beginning to advance the idea that the teaching profession and the enterprise of higher learning itself would be served badly if the research process become more important than the teaching/learning one. (LBH)

This study assesses if initial attitudes and beliefs of a behaviorally homogeneous group (1228 females and 868 males) can be utilized as indicators of future smoking behavior. Results suggest attitudes and beliefs of initial never smokers may serve as indicators of future behavior. (Author)

The relationship between participation in campus organizations and identity achievement is investigated. A study involving approximately 300 college women at a four-year, private, Eastern secular college revealed that degree of activity was related to identity achievement. A test of the relationship between type of housing and campus participation…

Assessment of student needs on a continuing basis will provide an educationally sound environment. Data collected from college students (N=952) provide support for this hypothesis. (Author)

A discussion of the needs and consideration of the appropriateness of various methodological approaches used in conducting research projects on adult literacy. (WL)

This study investigated objections to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items by black and white males and females classified as high or low trust by Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale. Low-trust subjects objected to more items than high-trust subjects. Race and sex did not influence number of items objected to. (Author)

This study examines the criterion-related and construct validity of the Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test, administered to 260 ninth-grade pupils. Results show the Competence Test is more highly correlated with the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test than it is with the Attitude Scale. (Author)

This paper describes methods used to evaluate a secondary school's career education program. The program aims at enhancing students' career awareness and self-awareness in a group setting. The evaluation focused on effects on counselors, students and the schools. The evaluation data led to program modifications. (NG)

This study examined the relationship of career maturity to both reading achievement and the socioeconomic status of sixth-grade Black males. It is concluded that socialization or vocationalization processes rather than reading achievement account for differences in vocational maturity. Implications for counseling are discussed. (NG)

Kindergarten children (N=90) were given opportunities to report to their class during "sharing time" the cooperative or friendly behaviors of their peers which had occurred during the day. Cooperative behavior increased and aggressive acts decreased when peers reported prosocial behavior to the class. (Author)

Questionnaires were sent to 13,549 graduates of four types of proprietary and nonproprietary vocational training programs. Substantial differences favoring nonproprietary programs were found between proprietary and nonproprietary graduates in terms of economic gains following graduation and expressed satisfaction. Nevertheless, both types of…

This study examined differences in vocational maturity of women across different levels of internal-external control and typical versus atypical vocational choice. Results indicated that internally controlled women had significantly higher vocational maturity than externally controlled women; no differences were found in vocational maturity…

The Career Development Inventory was administered to 107 ethnically mixed, inner city school dropouts to examine its suitability for such a population. Also investigated were the interrelationships among sex, age, ethnicity, intelligence, reading achievement, arithmetic achievement, and two of the inventory's scales. Results are discussed. (Author)

This study examines whether a sample of male college students, classified according to Holland's six personality types, also prefer occupational environments that are consistent with their primary personal orientations. There are no statistically significant differences in the characteristics of occupational environments preferred by male students…