Degrees held by the presidents of state teachers colleges

Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice. By Hilda Taba. (New York: Harcourt, Brace &; World, Inc., 1962. Pp. 529. $6.95.)

The Education of the Secondary School Teacher. Edited by Ernest Stabler. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. Pp. 239. $5.00.)

Psychology in the Making: Histories of Selected Research Problems. Edited by Leo Postman. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Pp. 785. $9.00.)

Supervision: A Synthesis of Thought and Action. By William H. Lucio and John E. McNeil. (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1962. Pp. 282. $6.50.)

Soviet Education: Anton Makarenko and the Years of Experiment. By James Bowen. (Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1962. Pp. 232. $5.00.)

Teacher Education: A Reappraisal. Edited by Elmer R. Smith. (New York: Harper and Row, 1962. Pp. 213. $4.00.)     

Developing and managing individualized studies programs: Some guidelines

This paper presents eight guidelines that educators should follow in developing and managing undergraduate individualized studies (contract learning-type) programs. The guidelines fall under the headings (1) supplying rationales, (2) focusing on the faculty, (3) assessing faculty performance, (4) assessing student readiness, (5) assessing the costs, (6) students as researchers, (7) how much academic credit, and (8) agents of change. A main theme presented is that the student-centered focus in individualized studies programs needs to be matched by an equal regard for the faculty member.     

Personality and Intelligence Characteristics of Selected High School Athletes and Nonathletes

Abstract

Selected high school athletes (junior and senior lettermen in baseball, basketball, football, swimming, and wrestling) were compared with nonathletes from the same population for differences in selected profile scales, as indicated by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and intelligent quotients (I).

Personality characteristics in terms of MMPI categories of hypochondriasis (Hs), depression (D), hysteria (hy), psychopathic deviation (Pd), femininity (Mf), paranoia (Pa), and psychasthenia (Pt) distinguished betweeen athletic and nonathletic groups. Femininity and intelligence were significantly lower for all athletic groups when compared with the nonathletic group. Hypochondriasis was significantly higher for all athletic groups, except swimmers, when compared with the nonathletic group. Only hypomania (Ma) and the validity scale (K) failed to differentiate between athletic and nonathletic groups.     

Depressive symptoms in and type of classroom placement for adolescents with LD

This study investigated the relationship of depressive symptomatology to type of classroom placement in a sample of adolescents with learning disabilities who attended an urban public high school. Fifty-two students, half of whom were in self-contained classrooms and half of whom were in general education classrooms with resource room, self-rated their depressive symptoms. Their guidance counselors also rated these students' depressive symptoms. Self-ratings of depression did not differ depending on classroom placement. Guidance counselors rated students with learning disabilities who were in general education classrooms as more depressed than students placed in self-contained classes.