A system for classifying educational objectives based on a description of personal attributes is proposed to fill the gap in analyzing and specifying objectives for professional education. The system's application to curriculum analysis and design in professional and other kinds of education is discussed. (MSE)

Describes vocational maturity and assists counselors in identifying what the various career maturity instruments measure. Discusses task variable measures, intervening variable measures, response variable measures, and methods of choosing an instrument. (JAC)

Alumni are both a vital source of financial support and an important barometer of the institutional climate. Research studies on alumni donor motivation are summarized. (MLW)

Managerial financial and status success were measured so that possible confounding effects of age were removed. Demographic characteristics, values and ideologies, role characteristics, and characteristics of the unit supervised were found to be significant predictors of success among 474 managers in a large corporation. (Author/NRB)

Treatment refusal was found to be associated with fear of "medical" people, intolerance for pain or discomfort, and difficulty in approaching novelty or adapting to change. In contrast to parents of controls, parents of treatment refusing children rated them as having greater difficulty in playing with unfamiliar children and negative in…

Argues that technical writing teachers must emphasize the concept of ethos in their classroom because students need to know not only how their ethos emerges in what they write, but how to convey a positive ethos that will influence readers to accept their investigations and arguments. (FL)

Analysis of Black federal-level political executives since 1969 shows a significant increase in the number of Blacks holding presidential appointments. Black appointees are basically similar to their White counterparts in terms of social background and career patterns. In addition, they feel a relatively high degree of racial solidarity. (CMG)

Examined the assessment processes (psychological and neuropsychological) used in the rehabilitation of learning disabled adults in a study of 130 vocational rehabilitation clients. Results indicated type of assessment was related to length of service but did not influence overall outcome. Only about half the clients were successfully…

Cites a study designed to determine the effects of within-receiver emotion and communication skill on communicated message interpretation. (MH)

This study proposed a model of administrative job satisfaction and tested the model using a database of 1,178 administrators at 120 public and private universities. The robust model explained 54% of the variance in ones overall job satisfaction. Overall, the results show that state, campus, and most of the personal characteristics variables do not…

Results of this study provide strong evidence for the position that social aggressiveness can accurately be considered as a personality trait; that is, peer ratings of aggressiveness describe a recognizable component of a person's behavior which is consistent across situations. (Author)

Data regarding the personal characteristics, education, employment, and participation in national and regional Association for Counselor Education and Supervision activities of ACES women is presented. (Author)

The essence of what the author had to say in this paper was that creative artists frequently use words like honesty and truth in describing themselves at work, that honesty and truth are at the core of what they are doing in art. (Author/RK)

Personality traits (aspects of aggression and sexuality) were measured for 70 Anglo-American and 70 Mexican-American children. Discussion concerns differences between the groups and developmental patterns. (DP)

The feasibility of personality measurement through the Semantic Differential and an examination of the degree of relationship between the semantic space and the preference and similarity space derived by independent means are reported. All three phases of the study met with essentially negative results. (Author/NE)