Employee growth need strength (EGNS) is defined as a worker's need to obtain "growth" satisfaction from his work. The moderating influence of EGNS on relationships between global job satisfaction and the job attributes of conflict and ambiguity were investigated. Production supervisors (N=57) completed questionnaires on role perceptions, job…

PREVIOUS THEORIES OF THE AGING PROCESS HAVE DERIVED BEHAVIOR AS NECESSARY FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL OR INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES. AN INTERMEDIATE THEORY, PERSONAL ORIENTATION, ALLOWS THE INDIVIDUAL THE POSSIBILITY OF CHOICE WITHIN HIS CAPACITIES AND SOCIAL SITUATION. THIS THEORY IS BASED ON A DISENGAGEMENT THEORY OF AGING THAT SUGGESTS THAT A PERSON…

BROTHERHOOD IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOULD ENCOURAGE THE APPRECIATION AND UTILIZATION OF THE DIFFERENCES AS WELL AS THE SIMILARITIES OF PEOPLE. CHILDREN CAN BE TAUGHT TO UNDERSTAND THE BASIC TENETS OF BROTHERHOOD THROUGH SUCH METHODS AS READING APPROPRIATE LITERATURE AND ROLE-PLAYING. MEASURES OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM INCLUDE MEMBERSHIP IN…

A FINAL REPORT WAS GIVEN OF A THREE-PART STUDY THAT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE DIFFERENCES IN THE ATTITUDES, INTERESTS, AND VALUES OF GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. A RESEARCH DESIGN WAS DEVELOPED TO DELINEATE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE GIFTED STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH DIFFERENTIATE THE…

Acknowledged rape victims are women who have experienced forced sexual intercourse and view their experience as rape. Unacknowledged rape victims have suffered the same experience but do not view it as rape. Acknowledged (N=39) and unacknowledged (N=29) rape victims completed a sexual experiences interview and a rape attitude survey to determine…

This report summarizes a number of exploratory and pilot studies undertaken to investigate the relationship of individual differences among college mathematics students to discovery and expository instruction, and to Personalized Systems of Instruction (PSI). Research in education has often attempted to demonstrate the superiority of one type of…

A review of studies of four vocabulary teaching methods--context learning, imagery, cognitive style, and natural word learning--resulted in several generalizations about their effectiveness. The generalizations are limited by problems such as the difficulty of defining when a word is "known" and the lack of a way to test permanence of word…

The persuasive writings of 14 teacher education students considered to be exemplary writers were examined to determine what variations occurred across topics and across writers. The stability of the T-unit (the main clause and all its subordinate clauses) as an indicator of writing ability was also tested. All the subjects wrote compositions on…

Mandler (1969) found that one-third of adult subjects were seriators and two-thirds were categorizers in a task where either strategy could be employed. Study 1 was a replication of his procedure with children from Grades 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. While there was weak evidence that some older subjects chose the categorial strategy, there was little…

It is hypothesized in this study that given an understanding of the educational value levels of students, instructors could modify their teaching methods to accommodate various levels reflected in their classes. Six value systems for both teachers and students are identified: (1) tradition oriented; (2) individualistic; (3) structured; (4)…

This study investigates the strategies people use to acquire knowledge from maps. Among the questions examined were (1) what distinguishes poor learners from good learners, and (2) how do the learning strategies of map-using experts differ from those of nonexpert learners? Eight subjects participated in the study. Five were undergraduate students…

The effects of two types of group intervention, Gestalt and sensitivity training, on time orientation or time competence and psychological effectiveness were investigated with 45 college students as subjects. Results indicate that students participating in the groups did not show significant gains in psychological effectiveness as measured by the…

Some research and ideas about learning, which are of interest to elementary school counselors, deal with individual differences and classroom environment. Studies find girls markedly superior to boys in language skills, with boys better in analytic thinking and transfer of learning. However, no sex differences in intellect have been found. There…

Sex role typing in the preschool child is the subject of this research report. Specific topics considered are sex differences, awareness of sex differences, sex role preferences, parent preferences, sex role identification, and family variables related to sex role typing. This summary of research studies in the field reports experimental and…

Programed instruction may be more efficient and effective when an individualized, fixed pace is chosen for the student. Three studies done in the Pittsburgh city schools to determine the relative merits of instruction at a fixed pace versus a self-adopted pace and several results. In the first experiment, one in which students paced themselves,…