A phenomenological approach to the study of the self concept using photography was utilized in a counseling situation. The clients were asked to take or have taken 12 photographs in reply to "Who are you"? Clients in comparison with controls presented significantly more photographs of the past and of their family but significantly fewer…

Reports on an investigation on sex and race as status characteristics on dominance behavior, and the effect of sex and race as contextual cues that might alter a person's status and thus his or her behavior. Discusses the importance of sex and race as both personal and contextual characteristics. (Author/ML)

The widely divergent career options suggested to men and women by the Self-Directed Search (SDS) raw scores are noted and misunderstandings concerning the implications of Holland's assessment procedures for his theory are discussed. Holland's defense of raw score reports of personality characteristics is found wanting especially in light of the…

Planning for people in higher education is discussed, with who should be involved in planning and the characteristics of a good planning process delineated. Suggestions for implementing a plan are also provided. (MLW)

Describes the development of an English-as-a-Second-Language computer-adaptive test of reading comprehension. The article discusses the constraints that apply to Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) and the advantages of CAT over conventional testing modalities. (29 references) (Author/CK)

The relationship among beliefs based on personal history that preservice teachers bring to their study of teaching and principles of reading, writing, and discussing to learn advocated by one professor was studied for nine college students. Personal histories of preservice teachers function as prior knowledge of good teaching. (SLD)

Students today are different from their counterparts of three and four decades ago. Women have outnumbered men for more than 15 years, and the participation rates for members of historically underrepresented groups have made impressive gains. Many of these "new" students are the first in their families to attend college. It is important that these…

Research often fails to document a gender difference in measures of voice. This is inconsistent with Gilligan's conceptualization of voice as a gendered construct. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate currently available measures of voice, particularly in terms of whether they appear to be assessing the same characteristics in men as…

Students with learning disabilities (LD) are now enrolling more frequently in higher education programs. This paper reviews the needs of college students with LD, the roles various school staff members can play in preparing students with LD to meet the demands of college, resources useful in preparing students for transition, and transition of…

The assumptions individuals make about their personal behaviors have received extensive attention, particularly the concepts of locus of control and self-efficacy. An additional concept, change orientation, refers to assumptions about how to change personal behavior. Approximately 180 subjects ranging from college freshmen to graduate students…

A survey of Returning Women Students at The Pennsylvania State University was conducted during the Spring 1975 term. The 53 women had a variety of backgrounds, but had many mutual concerns. Some were undergraduates, others were graduate students; some were enrolled full-time, more were part-time, and 92% were majoring in non-technical fields.…

A study was conducted to determine how males and females were perceived when using identical dominant behaviors. The subjects, 360 college students, viewed one of six stimulus drawings of groups of four seated people and indicated their attributions of dominant behavior on 22 bipolar perceptual scales. Analyses were conducted to create and compare…

Whether planning a course or trying to interpret the evaluation data from a completed one, it helps to know about the students involved. Student demographic data are of some use; however, another source of data--student learning styles--may prove more valuable. Student style and preference variables have been found to account for approximately 50%…

The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine whether clients seen at the Division of Counseling and Testing were representative of the total student population, and (2) to study the relationship between client descriptive variables, classification of client problem areas, and number of counseling sessions within the group seen at the Division…