This research project aims to investigate how students in lower secondary school experience work with socioscientific issues (SSI). The six socioscientific cases developed and used in this project are relevant according to characteristics of SSI and to the national curriculum. Approximately 1,500 students in Sweden have worked with one SSI case…

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research's (NZCER's) Families and Communities Engagement (FACE) project is investigating ideas and practices involved in bringing together teachers, families, local communities and students to contribute to collective conversations and decisions about education. This report concerns a sub-project of FACE…

Based on a 1974 nationwide survey, this paper describes the characteristics of 1,669 women in consciousness-raising (CR) groups. Most women in the survey are White, middle- and upper-middle class women who joined their first CR group during the 1970's. (Author)

The status of women at Duquesne University was examined with the use of questionnaires, testimony volunteered by individuals, interviews with administrative officers, affective attitudes expressed informally, and data obtained from the heads of various departments. Results indicated: (1) Women, whether faculty or staff, uniformly receive less pay…

Examines the relationship between sex-role self-concepts and various life style plans in young women. (Author)

Subjects in this study were asked to report the number of contacts-for-advice they had made when forming decisions to have a therapeutic abortion, or to carry a pregnancy to term. As predicted, the abortion group differed strongly from both other groups on most questions. (Author)

This study examines salary differences by sex for a group of male and female college graduates. The results of the mail questionnaire lend support to current claims of discrimination in the employment of women. Implications for counselors are discussed. (SJL)

This paper presents some of the findings of a survey of feminists seeking to answer three basic questions about women's education. The questions guiding the research were: (1) What do feminist women perceive as important aspects of an education for women which promotes the development of their potentials? (2) What aspects of their schooling…

Two studies, the second essentially a replication of the first, were conducted to clarify the meaning of vocational maturity in female career development. The sample consisted of 55 college women in the first study and 145 women in the second study. Correlational analysis examined the relationship of vocational maturity, using the Career Maturity…

A survey of the N.A.W.D.A.C. membership was conducted in early 1976. The survey was: (1) to provide a profile of current members; (2) to identify ways members perceive the Association; and (3) to identify trends in the profile and status of members by comparing results with a 1970 survey. (Author)

Data gathered by means of questionnaires for 1965, 1970, and 1975 from students are used to ascertain the extent to which sexual behavior and attitudes have changed. Evidence suggests the premarital sexual revolution which was reported to have begun during the late 1960's has actually accelerated during the 1970's. (Author)

A large national sample of men and women college seniors were asked for their perceptions of five careers: medicine, law, college teaching and research, elementary and senior school teaching, and business. The responses of men and women seniors to 18 items repeated for each field showed that they held different images of these fields. The images…

The purpose of the present study was to assess the explanatory powers of three theories of sex role development: secondary reinforcement through parental nurturance; instrumental conditioning by dating partners; and social learning through observations of outcomes for mothers. Subjects' responses to questionnaire items were utilized to measure the…

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between level of vocational development and career choice, knowledge and perceptions of occupations and level of aspiration among college females. Subjects were selected from the dormitory population at the University of Connecticut using a random stratified method so as to include a total…

Undergraduate men and women judged to be either high or low in creative ability were given the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and an ideal other questionnaire. Highly creative males gave TSCS responses similar to those of females with minimal creative ability. Highly creative females had the lowest self-esteem. (Author)