A manual is presented which provides a common, preliminary frame of reference for seminar participants who desire to develop procedures for studying major social problems through the use of the urban community as a laboratory. Broadly, the seminar concentrates upon providing access to data and facilitation data collection and analyses. Although…

A three-dimensional model was developed to assist researchers in conceptualizing the research-study-impact process. Drawing on communication and decision making literature, the model relates time, action, and audience dimensions. The results of these relationships is labeled "institutional study impact." Impact is viewed as the outcomes…

A time-sharing FORTRAN program is described. It was created to allow a student to design and perform classical thermodynamic experiments on three models of a working substance. One goal was to develop a simulation which gave the student maximum freedom and responsibility in the design of the experiment and provided only the primary experimental…

A study based on an individual tracking design for both teachers and pupils was conducted. It reports teacher and pupil continuance and transience data for each of the seven models as well as for the total program. A review of relevant literature was conducted. Four sources of information were used to pinpoint the total Follow Through pupil…

Research into problems associated with job training programs resulted in a method for defining on-the-job training where a substance organization must serve as the training base for the organization in which the trainee ultimately will serve. The method involves determining the tasks required by the jobs men do in the target organization and…

In this report, previous studies are reviewed in order to reconsider the assumption that lower class black children are generally deficient in their ability to produce syntactically elaborated speech. Though several studies have seemed to confirm the elaboration-deficiency hypothesis, the evidence presented is not convincing. Specific critiques of…

This investigation sought to study the socioeconomically disadvantaged child and his levels of achievement as related to the control of positive and negative reinforcements, personality constructs, classroom behavior, and parental attitudes about classroom behavior and school achievement. The sample consisted of 50 matched pairs of eighth grade…

This report, developed over a 17 calendar-day period, was prepared to quantitatively present the status of vocational education for use in identifying major issues and problems, and in indicating implications for the future. Findings and recommendations are to be used as a background for considering alternative policy decisions regarding…

This document contains the appendices for the report prepared by an analysis group that quantitatively presented the status of vocational education and implications for the future. Appendixes A-F contain: (A) documentation supporting the discussion of the vocational education system, (B) documentation supporting the discussion of measuring…

An analysis of data is provided relating to the withdrawal of secondary school students during the 1969-70 school years. These findings are compared with those of 1961-62. Data concerns age, sex, program enrollment, intelligence quotient, achievement ratings, financial problems, lack of interest, and other lesser reasons for withdrawing. (MS)

A first-year report of the South East Education Development (SEED) project, an organization between the community-at-large and the schools in a disadvantaged section of San Francisco, California, is presented. The author first lists major findings about the primarily Negro first-grade students as a group and an introduction which refers to the…

The investigation examined the relationship among role conflict, role ambiguity, and motivation to work of teacher-negotiators. The theoretical rationale for the study was formulated from the finding of Walton and McKersie, Deutsch, Vidmar and McGrath, and Blum concerning the negotiator's conflict with his adversary, his dependence on his…

A study of Haldimand County (Ontario, Canada) farmers' use and understanding of soil test reports and the relationship of these variables with certain personal and social characteristics of the respondents are summarized. The objectives of the study were to indicate the extent to which farmers use the soil test report, the quality of fertilizer…

To determine the status of ethnic groups' self-concepts in a desegregated integrated urban school, a pictorial semantic differential instrument which measures self-concept was given to a quota sample of intermediate classes (4-6 grades). One hundred and fifty-nine children were sampled representing black, Asian and white ethnic groups.…

Similarities were noted between techniques used in a new curriculum method, "Structural Communication," and research techniques used to study the relationship between "subjective organization" and recall of word lists. To explore these similarities, 8 groups of 24 high school students read instruction units under different…