This booklet provides guidelines for writing job descriptions for secondary school counselors in Georgia, based on the "Program Planning Guide: Georgia Comprehensive Guidance" model. The counselor's role, as described in the document, focuses on four components: the guidance curriculum, individual planning, responsive services, and…

Used a multimodal group counseling intervention to assist procrastinating students in grades 3-6 in the completion of their school tasks. Observed students making progress in goal setting, attitude and behavior changes, and report card grades. Suggests using an intervention that emphasizes the acquisition of new skills and information about one's…

Uses data from ethnographic study in two Quechua-speaking communities of Puno, Peru, to explore schooltime spent in other-than-academic endeavors. Documents uses to which schooltime is put in these communities, and then seeks to account for observed uses of time in terms of ethnographically derived insights as to social, cultural, economic, and…

A well-conceived and concisely written plan can become an important vehicle to meet challenges and gain citizens' confidence in a school system. Effective strategic planning requires community involvement, husbanding of resources, and a clear sense of timing. (TE)

Discusses a study conducted at Wilson County Technical College, North Carolina, to assess the study habits and skills of 74 students enrolled in basic science courses in 1987. Student responses to the Study Behavior Inventory-Form D suggest that students had difficulty with time management and keeping up-to-date with assignments. (DMM)

Examined time-management and self-care coping techniques that multiple-role women use. Found number, type, and frequency of use of coping strategies significantly related to level of distress, stress, and particularly marital adjustment. High marital adjustment group subjects had significantly lower levels of distress, employed a greater number of…

Provides results from a 1983 survey of secondary mathematics education in Wisconsin. Questions refer to graduation requirements, curriculum topics, nature of geometry classes, metric system, computers, and calculators. Items also collected data on district mathematics committees, policies, competency exams, computer access, and the nature of…

Compared the quality of psychoeducational reports generated under two conditions. On the average, reports written with computer assistance were rated to be of higher quality than those prepred by hand. Staff time spent on report preparation was saved with computer assistance. (Author/ABB)

Automation is changing the American workplace. It is redefining roles, changing corporate culture, and altering the demographics of the work force. In the first of a three-part series, a noted forecaster provides an overview of the coming changes. (CT)

Some campuses have too many students to advise on an individual basis, and faculty realize that it is impossible to do an adequate job. In such situations, advising models must be developed that allow faculty to advise students via a process different than the one-on-one model. (MLW)

This study examined career teachers' allocation of extra work time within a conceptual framework influencing time use. Distinct groups prefering instructional tasks; student, or parent, counseling; or committee activities were identifiable in a prediction model. Teachers selected professional time uses congruent with their perceived skills and…

By means of a literature review and data obtained from the 1978 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this article suggests that children in one-wage-earner families may not have the advantage of more parental time. Four tables include data on variables and regression coefficients. (PB)

Develops a conceptual model which places public library use in the context of a series of interrelated decisions made by consumer about allocating time to various activities based on relative costs and benefits, and tests the model against available data on the characteristics of public library users. Seventeen references are included. (EJS)

Suggests that when middle school teachers put greater emphasis on study skills, their students profit from greater confidence and understanding. (AEA)

The authors formulate a model with which they can empirically test the decision-making hypothesis of utility maximization. The model takes into account the simultaneous nature of decisions about time allocation for husband and wife and purchases of goods and services. (SSH)