The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) believes that prior to the start of each season, all high school head coaches, assistant coaches, and volunteer coaches should be required to participate in a comprehensive orientation to the sport program. This orientation should be planned and conducted by the athletic director or…

The data suggest that student expectations about freshman camps have little appreciable relation to satisfaction with camps. Students' experiences with people at camp, however, were moderately related to satisfaction with camp. (Author)

Describes the pilot phase of an innovative program that uses a structured group format to orient parents to their expected roles and to educate and support them in the process of deciding their children's futures. (Author/MP)

Examines the effects of dimensionality and salience of frame of reference on children's location of a point in space. Subjects were eight boys and eight girls from each of first, second and third grades. (CM)

An orientation program for trustees conducted at Lycoming College is described. An informal, two-day workshop was held with the board's basic responsibilities discussed and a tour of the campus conducted. A trustee handbook with information on the college's purpose, legal charter and bylaws, and governance responsibility is described. (MLW)

The article explores the theory that the sense of hearing evolved to help an organism localize its position in space and perform aural analyses of that space and describes two major kinds of hearing loss--conductive and sensorineural. (PHR)

Four experiments with 88 college students investigated whether variations in orientation that affect the ability to imagine rotations also affect the ability to imagine projective transformations. Results suggest that imagination of projection and rotation involves organization of spatial structures in relation to initially given properties of the…

Interviews with 11 nurses three months after graduation showed they were focused on skills and procedural aspects of care, lacked capacity for patient communication, and relied on routines learned from experienced nurses. They were at the advanced beginner stage of Benner's typology of practice. (Contains 11 references.) (SK)

A short, intensive orientation program offered to a small group of students before the start of their first computer science course taught a simple programing language and provided pre-programing skills. The orientation was found to be beneficial, particularly for women, for both content and social orientation. (MSE)

Contends that orientation must be organized to address changing student needs. Presents comprehensive orientation model for 1990s which includes preorientation, first-year orientation day or week, orientation course, follow-up, multiculturalism, programs for parents/spouses, and evaluation. Concludes that multifaceted approach to orientation can…

This study evaluated the accuracy of 9 pointing methods used by 20 blind adults. Substantial differences were found, with the most accurate methods involving a body part or extension. The verbal "clockface" was the least accurate and most variable method. The long cane is recommended as a pointing method for adults in applied and…

Studied head-orientation response of breast-feeding neonates in paired-choice odor tests. Found that 2-day olds detected amniotic fluid and colostrum, treating them as similar sensorily and/or hedonically. Four-day olds exhibited a preference for breast milk. Three-day olds oriented longer toward the odor of their own amniotic fluid than alien…

Compared the number of testing sessions required to achieve consistent 1 repetition maximum (1RM) strength measurements in untrained old and young women. Participants were repeatedly strength-tested for bilateral concentric knee extension 1RM strength. Older women required significantly more testing sessions to achieve the same absolute…

The present study examined the unique contributions of readers' goal and text structure on comprehension. In Experiment 1, participants read procedural and descriptive passages to perform the procedures, summarize the passages, or to answer questions. The perform goal showed highest comprehension, with no difference due to text type. In Experiment…