This practicum project defined the roles and responsibilities of parent cooperative preschool team members to help parents identify who was responsible for different functions in the co-op preschool. A 10-week intervention strategy was implemented to provide information and support to parents during the first 2 months of the school year.…

The purpose of this study is to understand how Portuguese social workers perceive education and work as a way to grow as professionals in the field. This qualitative study takes place within a very specific organizational context--the Portuguese social security--and investigates how eight social workers: (1) perceive their education (including…

A collaborative project in liberal arts chemistry, involving faculty in chemistry and science education, is described. The project includes various components: an introductory test (DAST) to examine students' perceptions of scientists, a group library research exercise, oral and written presentation of the results of the library research, a…

Certain teacher behaviors have been found to be conducive to learning or reinforcing for learning, while other behaviors have been found detrimental to learning. Humanism in teacher/pupil control orientation has been found to promote more positive attitudes toward teachers, and custodialism has been found to produce more negative attitudes toward…

This report investigates environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among adult Americans. This sixth survey explores people's environmental behaviors to see what relationships exist among attitudes, knowledge, and activities. What adult Americans actually know about the environment is also assessed. Sections include: (1) "Summary and…

This study presents an empirical investigation of basic processes in the perception of speech sounds. The experimental methods applied have their roots in two different psycholinguistic research paradigms; i.e., "categorical perception" and "dichotic listening." In the categorical perception paradigm, listeners' categorization…

Article outlines the roles and responsibilities of educational researchers and educators as well to promote cooperation between the school and the researchers. (GB)

Conventional education programs socialize the nurse for one way of functioning, but, for effective practitioner performance, the nurse must develop a different concept of her nursing identity. Increased knowledge and skills will not alone make the nurse a practitioner; there must be a role change. (Author)

This study applies the A-B scale to psychotherapists and tests the hypotheses that A's describe themselves as more feminine and less masculine than B's. A's, purportedly more effective with schizophrenics, tend to dislike mechanical-technical activities, while B's, more effective with neurotics, like them. Results show no association between A-B…

Counselors, psychotherapists, and counselor educators completed a modified repertory test. Contrary to previous findings, presumed positive and negative affect role constructs of significant others did not produce significant differences. The role constructs--boss and person you'd like to help--previously presumed to be negative affect role…

Suggests a connection between the perceptual world taken as a system of signs and the system of signs we normally think of as visible language and defends this thesis. (TO)

A three-year follow-up study was made of the subjects in a previous study, to determine the relationships of job satisfaction with tenure, promotions, and additional formal training through the investigation of variables of age, sex, and years of agency experience for rehabilitation counselors. (EA)

Article examined the relative contributions of pause frequency and articulation rate to the listener's extraphonic perception of rate, the invariance of the cue hierarchy across modalities, and the reproducibility of the extraphonic scale with somewhat different procedures and stimulus ensembles. (Author)

Four diverse groups of women (members of the university women's caucus, a sample of undergraduates, a group of secretarial and clerical women, and a nonworking group) agreed on the prestige accorded to different occupations. The same groups showed clear differences when asked whether the occupations were appropriate for women. (Author/EAK)

Presented and discussed a questionnaire designed for student evaluation of teaching performance. (Author/RK)