A recent survey conducted in 45 school districts revealed that a majority of new school board members have received inadequate training to help them perform their duties. (LLR)

This paper presents a scoring procedure for sex-role orientation reflecting how similar an individual is to androgynous, undifferentiated, masculine, and feminine sex-role types. The profile scores are reasonably reliable, consistent with a widely used typological scoring procedure, and permit finer comparisons between individuals with different…

Apparently, six-month-old infants can encode a location relative to a landmark, but in many situations their visual search behavior is dominated by a learned egocentric code. (RH)

Outlines two schools of thought on personnel management--staffing and career management--and provides guidelines on how they can be integrated to solve human resources problems. (IRT)

Describes a peer-based, department-specific initiative to train graduate assistants in the Biology Department of the University of Victoria, Canada. Focuses on the resource manual and orientation day that are aspects of the program. (SLD)

Recent nursing graduates (n=46) rated stresses and challenges in clinical practice. Stressors included not feeling competent/confident, making mistakes due to increased workload, and encountering new situations. Challenges included applying knowledge to practice and acquiring new skills. Most emotions were positive but anxiety was frequent. Ways…

Four experiments using Piaget's water-level task investigated whether containers tilted at larger angles produce more error than those at smaller angles. Found that the orientation effect occurred between genders but was absent in male subjects when manipulated within subjects; males performed more accurately on easier stimulus trials; and mental…

In 2 experiments a total of 28 6-and 8-year olds and 9 adults were tested on a task that required making left-right directional judgments from various rotated orientations. The results supported the hypothesis that respondents who answered correctly performed imaginary rotations to correctly align themselves with the object. (MDM)

Newly hired principals are advised to organize their offices, locate key work-related items (schedules and rosters), get the support of key staff and faculty, contact the parent organization president, get to know their students, move slowly when implementing change, establish a few visible and popular goals, sponsor a school fund raiser, and…

Colleges and universities around the world are enacting sustainable initiatives. Some are signing the American College and University President's Climate Committment, while others are being recognized by STARS (Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment, & Rating System). Despite what level of dedication to sustainability an institution might have, it…

This document discusses the challenges community colleges, particularly urban ones, face in delivering education to their first-generation, immigrant, economically disadvantaged, non-white, limited-English-ability, and other non-traditional students. These challenges can be exacerbated by students' failure to connect and become involved in college…

Describes a journal-based orientation course at a small, public two-year technical college. Reports on a study of 160 students which found that the orientation-course grade was a better predictor of student success (as measured by timely graduation and grade point average) than high school rank and far superior to the American College Testing…

Traditionally, new board members have taken up roles that were established and well-defined long ago. But globalization swiftly and utterly changed that mindset. Institutions now are directly affected by events occurring thousands of miles away, and it is no longer possible to rely solely on long-standing, accepted board practices to provide good…

Materials contained in this packet for teacher advisors of junior high school students were developed for the Teacher Advisor System of the Lincoln Career Education Project, Nebraska. They are designed for use with students in a series of teacher advisor (TA) group meetings to (1) get oriented to the new school year, (2) get to know self and other…