Sexual bias, whether displayed knowingly or not, affects counselor performance. Several studies have supported this fact. Counselors reflect such bias through in-counseling behaviors and through some of the materials they use. This article discusses the relevant research surrounding this problem and proposes a model of training to help counselors…

The work reported in this study attempts to further isolate the place of two codes of information, visual and acoustic. (Author/RK)

Authors describe the methodology and the implications of a technique to improve the validity of questionnaires in general. (Authors/CB)

The results of this study showed that: (1) school psychologists were doing more consulting than evaluations of individual children, (2) school personnel tended to perceive their psychologists as cooperative, knowledgeable, and skillful, though relatively inefficient and undependable, and (3) school personnel preferred consulting activities to…

Results illustrate that teachers view the psychologist as a specialist in emotional problems whose major diagnostic procedure is testing, who recommends treatment but does little himself. Statistical analysis indicates that both the factors of teaching experience and contact with psychologists differentiate between teachers' perceptions of the…

Presents a useful instrument which determines what administrators and teachers expect of reading specialists. (RB)

Three experiments were reported based on the findings that perceived effort expenditure and level of ability, in addition to achievement outcome, are determinants of reward and punishment in achievement-related contexts. (Author/KM)

It appears that boys attending a sexually exclusive school are more likely to judge school-related reading as a male activity than boys attending coeducational classes. (Author)

This study of the relationship of perceived role to satisfaction with a job presents four plausible models based on the variables role accuracy compliance, performance evaluation, and satisfaction. These models are evaluated by path analysis. Compliance and performance evaluation are shown to be important variables mediating the relationship…

It has been a well-accepted axiom that the behavior of an individual is related closely to his perception. This research with children demonstrates the value of objective assessment of an individual's perception of social interactions in order to be able to predict more precisely some aspects of his interpersonal behavior. (Author)