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As now you can compare them: U. S. Civil Service Commission has list showing Federal Classification Act salary ranges for positions covered in Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Survey of Professional, Administrative, Technical, and Clerical Pay: Winter 1960–61. List is related to recent BLS report of its findings of national salary averages for these positions in private business and includes these national averages. Exact comparability is not evident since data for private industry are in terms of national average rate while data for government are in terms of minima and maxima. Nevertheless, it is apparent that, in general, pay scales in private industry top those of Uncle Sa

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02150.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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Group methodsof guidance and counseling have been at once a great hope and a great disappointment. Counselors have hoped that group methods would make it possible to use their time more efficiently for transmitting commonly‐needed information and interpretations. This would be especially valuable in schools, where case loads almost universally are too large. But economy of time was only one of the hoped‐for advantages. It seemed logical to expect that boys and girls, and adults too, could benefit from sharing experiences with others and exchanging ideas about the handling of their problems. For some it should be helpful just to know that their problems are not unique. From the counselor's point of view, enriched understanding of his counselees should result from the opportunity to see how each of them functions in the group setting. For these and other anticipated values, counselors in many settings, but especially in schools, looked to group methods for valuable contributions to a total guidance and counseling prog

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02151.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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Duringthe past four decades, vocational interests have come to be considered one of the most crucial aspects of human behavior. It is evident from the reviews of research [2, 7, 10, 22] that this facet of behavior has been intriguing and challenging to psychologists and educators, for in few areas has so much research been done with such little success in developing a cohesive theoretical framework.In this paper, a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical findings about vocational interest phenomena is attempted. First, the literature on vocational interests is evaluated in order to point up some of the possible reasons for confusion and to determine if any unifying concepts have been overlooked. On the basis of this evaluation, then, a basic assumption which appears to underlie most major interest theories is presented. Next, an approach to testing this basic assumption is considered, and further hypotheses are formulated related to the basic assumption which it is hoped will lead to further research. Finally, the implications of the theoretical framework to counselors is discussed.

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02152.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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Avalidcomplaint voiced by advisers of preprofessional students is that once their charges have entered graduate school, news relative to the student's academic progress is hard to come by. The adviser will, of course, in due time be informed as to whether his protégés have in general passed or specifically failed. The trouble is that the adviser rarely learns why his former students have failed. Because of this lack of information, he is hard put to assess the effectiveness of his own counseling.The purpose of this paper is to present relevant findings from two studies recently conducted by the Student Personnel Office of the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. The major concern of both studies was to determine whether any relationship might exist between certain background data and the student's academic progress in medical school. It is convenient to refer to the investigations as studies A and B. Study A was concerned with 688 medical students who entered the Upstate Medical Center during the nine‐year period from September, 1949, through September, 1957 [4]. It provides a detailed analysis of past experience with medical students of various ages, mental abilities, college majors, and so forth. Study B, not yet fully completed, reports experience with the validity of a 16‐factor interview approach for 293 members of the classes entering 1956

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02153.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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The ministryis one of the oldest, most respected, and most unique professions. Its practitioners are men of uncommon dedication and talent. Although different assignments for ministers require different combinations of abilities and personality traits, it is widely believed that all who enter the ministry, regardless of the specific assignments they may receive, should be more than minimally intelligent and communicative and should have a commitment to a specific pattern of personal values. Although certain spokesmen for the churches deplore the idea of a uniform and regimented clergy, there is considerable agreement among the objectives of different seminaries, and there is a general feeling among lay persons that the minister should be a man of certain distinctions.Measurement of these personal characteristics has become increasingly widespread in recent years as a result of the continuing development and refinement of interest inventories, attitude questionnaires, and value scales. Some writers anticipate that further psychometric exploration of these personality variables will facilitate and enhance the selection of candidates for the ministry [2, 4, 5, 7, 8]. This article reports the results of one such psychometric exploration.

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02154.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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Many collegesthroughout the country have become increasingly selective in the quality of students they allow to matriculate. The trend appears to be toward even more selectivity. Nevertheless, Havighurst has suggested that an increasing number of students will attend schools. This will include schools which have one‐ and two‐year terminal programs [5].How realistic are students in considering their potential to succeed in college? Are those who plan to work rather than attend college utilizing their full potential? Are the able students more realistic in their educational and vocational plans than the less able? Lockwood, in 1958, indicated that intelligence seemed directly related to the students' level of realism of their vocational preference. However, he noted that “… pupils of high mental ability sometimes select vocations offering limited opportunities and pupils of low mental ability sometimes select occupations for which they are not intellectually fitt

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02155.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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To guidancespecialists on the campus, the current trend toward college student marriage poses many intriguing questions. For example: does this trend appear uniformly among all types of undergraduates? Are undergraduate marriages less durable than those which have not had to undergo the strain of college years? Does undergraduate marriage interfere with scholastic achievement? Does it tend to limit career choice after college, producing frustration and dissatisfaction with work?

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02156.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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TheRehabilitationInstituteof Chicago, the Chicago public schools, and the Chicago Heart Association recently concluded a five‐year pilot study designed to serve children with rheumatic or congenital heart disease. Entitled the Vocational Guidance and Counseling Project, the program has been an attempt to assist the individual schools in their handling of cardiac cases and effort to provide for the disabled youngster in grades 7 to 12 the coordinated services of a “rehabilitation team.”Ten years ago a cardiologist and later on a teacher‐nurse were assigned to the Bureau of Health Services. Since that time, cardiac case‐finding and reviews of cardiac children have continued to be a part of the program, with initial contacts now made by over one hundred teacher‐nurses in the school system. Provision was originally made for cardiac children in the special schools, but the project was then extended to children with heart disease in the regular schools. Because of increased value placed upon the service by high school personnel the program was expanded from the 10th to include the 11th and 12th grade students, with fewer being referred from the lower grades. The Heart Association for a while employed a social worker to coordinate activities and do follow‐up, including such field work as was necessary. In the last half of the program, follow‐up was done by the individual schools concerned and only occasionally by the Ins

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02157.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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TheAdvancedPlacementProgram, now sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board, provides the opportunity for able and ambitious students to take college level courses in the secondary schools. The Cincinnati Public Schools have been involved with the Advanced Placement Program since its inception in 1955 and have, therefore, faced the responsibility of selecting capable candidates for participation for several years.This study involved, primarily, a look at the procedures for selection which have been used since the first participants were chosen in the Cincinnati schools in an attempt to discover those characteristics which most accurately identify the students who benefit from advanced placement experience.

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02158.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY

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For perhapsthe first time in the history of our country, education has become a topic of primary concern to the American public. Daily, our newspapers and magazines inform us of the large numbers of students who will be seeking a college education within the next few years. It is the responsibility of the school to find ways of meeting this need so that “quality in quantity” [6] may be the outcome.In the past few years, with school enrollments increasing so rapidly many studies have been conducted to determine ways of predicting college success and adjustment. Because of the emphasis on the general theme of college adjustment, it was felt that there are other factors such as vocational maturity and curriculum certainty which might also be studied to learn more about this general adjustment prob

ISSN:0031-5737    

DOI:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1962.tb02159.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1962

数据来源: WILEY