This 1966 study of 1,413 household heads residing in the rural Ozarks has shown at least partial support for the hypothesis that parental values mitigate the limitations of low socioeconomic status (SES) for the educational attainment and intergenerational occupational mobility of the migrant children of the male heads. Major findings were that…

Mahoning Valley Vocational School (MVVS) is the only resident occupational training program in Ohio under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA). For this reason and because it is an innovation in youth training in the United States, the school was evaluated for its efficiency and its effectiveness in preparing youth for the world of…

Hybrid computation facilities have been in operation at Louisiana State University since the spring of 1969. In part, they consist of an Electronics Associates, Inc. (EAI) Model 680 analog computer, an EAI Model 693 interface, and a Xerox Data Systems (XDS) Sigma 5 digital computer. The hybrid laboratory is used in a course on hybrid computation…

A user study to determine the ratio of citation-bound queries to data-bound queries originated by university faculty and processed through reference department personnel or by independent use of reference materials in the university library revealed a majority (75%) of the queries are citation-bound. Important implications are suggested for the…

Over 200 families from lower and middle income areas of British Columbia, including a group representing the Indian communities, were studied in this effort to examine poverty as it relates to families, especially to young children. A wide variety of health, social, and economic variables were examined in the hope of developing output criteria for…

Statistics concerning Indian education are published annually by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and are made available following the close of the school term which the statistics cover. In this annual report for 1970, after a brief historical account of the BIA role in Indian education, 28 pages of statistics are given on enrollment and…

In this teaching and curriculum guide for community health education, a design is suggested for a course that could help prevent premature deaths due to heart disease. The course communicates facts regarding the causes of cardiovascular diseases, and outlines opportunities for attaining the degree of physical conditioning essential to prevention.…

To evaluate the effectiveness and extent of use of a vocational curriculum development guide prepared by the institute's participants, questionnaires and interview data were obtained and analyzed in 1969 from four sources: (1) the original participants (19 vocational educators), (2) their supervisors, (3) 35 State Directors of Vocational…

Second in a series, this survey was designed to provide information about some aspects of graduate study in adult education in the United States and Canada. It differs from the first, dated July, 1968, in that only data likely to change appreciably in one year were included. Some of the major changes between the last and present reports are:…

This paper discusses several of the trends in information handling for text-based storage and retrieval systems that are prevalent in the United States. The paper considers, in particular, specialized information products, cooperative and networking activities, and work on standards. Information products include current awareness abstract…

This report describes the second or followup phase of a project begun in 1962, which was designed to analyze the effect of home and maternal influence on the cognitive development of urban preschool children from three socioeconomic levels. Reported is the academic performance and cognitive attainment of 158 original study children during their…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this document contains the summary report and recommendations regarding education of Indian children and youth. The document summarizes results of field research made in 30 Indian communities and contains recommendations for action to improve the education of…

This study was designed to determine what happens to the intelligence quotient of freshman students during their enrollment at a private Negro college. The Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test, Gamma Em, was administered to 822 students from a population of approximately 2,000 in their freshman year at Hampton Institue, Hampton, Virginia. The…

Conducted during 1968, this study was primarily concerned with whether Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) enrollees became any more employable as a result of their work experience. It was also concerned with factors that induce enrollees to remain in NYC or to leave it. The study pioneered in a method of quantitative observation of enrollees and work…

A theoretical framework of the learning process is presented and then used to evaluate the total educational program in the Fresno City Unified School District as part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III. According to this framework, the learner must develop a self-concept by which he feels he can learn. From this self-concept the…