The term "values" is defined in various ways. Values are important because the decisions one makes in life, influenced by one's values, largely determine the quality of experiences, the depth of understanding, and one's contribution to humanity. The child comes into the school system with certain "ego virtues" which form the basic ingredients out…

The Olympia, Washington, Public Schools report a workshop held to design a program for collecting and organizing information on the total student growth necessary for developing a curriculum for individualized instruction. In addition to student records, information was needed on (1) learning styles, (2) interest areas, (3) physical development…

The field of student development is currently quite fluid, which means that there is room for almost any carefully formulated hypothesis about the developmental process. The author discusses three models of student development but concludes that none should serve as the only model for student development specialists. There is profound and…

This annotated bibliography, prepared by the ERIC Counseling and Personnel Services Center, is intended to alert the user to a body of literature on a topic of current interest to counselors. It identifies research reports and programs that have been cited in the ERIC publications, "Research in Education" and "Current Index to…

The voluminous research of the last 10 years on college students and on the function of higher education has emphasized the importance of personal and social growth of students in addition to their intellectual and vocational development. The State University of New York at Buffalo, since 1964, has increased efforts to support and initiate…

The purpose of this handbook is to help make teaching and learning more effective, interesting, and exciting. The book is one in a series which provides practical, classroom tested strategies, approaches, and student activities for the elementary classroom. "Developing Individual Values in the Classroom" contains definitions, value discovery…

Learning, enthusiasm, fun, and involvement--all are qualities of the student council workshop which this booklet attempts to capture. The author provides a detailed, lively manual for workshop directors and those who would like to begin new workshops. Why hold a workshop for student leaders? The author suggests these answers: to prepare student…

While in 3rd grade, 487 students were selected for placement in special classes for the gifted from grades 4 through 8. Teachers of the special classes were chosen by school administrators. Their teaching experience averaged 9 years, and eight held advanced degrees. Sixteen attended special summer programs on the gifted and were given inservice…

The development and current status of the student personnel program at Sante Fe Junior College is described. Statements of purpose and philosophy are amplified through an outline of the needs and characteristics of Santa Fe students and a description of the elements of the program as they relate to specific needs and characteristics. The elements…

This study investigated the differential effects of various training techniques on the counselor effectiveness of beginning practicum students. It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences between the subjects pre- and post-test scores on both the Affective Sensitivity Scale (ASS) and on the Counselor Verbal Response Scale…

The foundation for this publication was a workshop at The University of Michigan which put together three programs in the area of psychological education. These three group approaches, documented by research, are presented. The first approach assists people, through achievement motivation training, to be more effective in reaching their goals.…

This questionnaire attempts to assess the educational and social growth of students in the middle school (grades 6-9). Each student is to answer the eleven questions individually and anonymously by marking the response which he feels is correct, or where appropriate, by writing in his own response. For a detailed description of the assessment of…

It is suggested that student personnel workers in higher education have comparable responsibilities to their academic counterparts as "educators" in a literal sense. Each contact with a student by personnel officers should be viewed as an opportunity for facilitating learning and growth. As such, a responsibility for being conversant with and open…

The 30 sixth and 30 ninth grade students, all of whom attended one rural school district in central Illinois, not only displayed a wider variety of behaviors than reported in the Inhelder and Piaget study (1958) investigating the development of logical thinking in children, but the behavioral components served to fill significant gaps in the…

A model for expansion of educational objectives beyond the usual narrow focus on low-level cognitive abilities and the transmission of facts is suggested. A brief definition of the three domains--psychomotor (doing), cognitive (thinking), and affective (feeling)--is given, and it is pointed out that affect (Feelings) is present with either…