Presented in this report are the Illuminating Engineering Research Institute's fundamental scientific concepts in a new frame of realism while relating them to an up-to-date accounting of the search for new basic knowledge. In addition to being an annual accounting, it is also intended to provide orientation. Its presented in dramatic and…

The paper explores the dual role of the advocate for physically disabled students in higher education. Considered is the advocates responsibility in helping the student deal with five principal groups: peers, professors, administrators, family, and the community. The dual mission of advocates is seen to include acting as the one who argues on the…

This paper discusses recent studies of the adult visual evoked potential (VEP) which have indicated that specific components of the complex waveform obtained are related to the three basic color processes, and that these components interact in ways that seem to agree with opponent-colors phenomena. The components identified as being related to the…

This study evaluates the relationships that exist between three types of visual and perceptual-motor tasks (coincidence-anticipation, tracking with rotary pursuit, and a unique two-dimensional discrete motor task) and investigates the nature of learning demonstrated by the subjects on each of the three tasks. Thirty male students were given 20…

If a student's perception of his environment affects his behavior in it, the college should have a measure of it as additional data for educational decisions. This would be added to the student's personal data file already maintained by the college, and used in developing new programs and policies; in self-study; to compare with normative data; to…

This state director's view of a junior college president was given at the Presidents' Institute (May 1969). In Colorado, the State Board prefers that the president be chosen at the local level by faculty, students, and local board members. His qualifications must fit the climate and values of the state system; e.g., he must de-emphasize the…

This paper attempts to trace the historical and societal development of sex roles as related to women in today's society. Discussions include the role of the female in tribal societies, the development of monogamous marriage, and the societal influences which identify a woman primarily as a housewife and mother from the 16th-20th centuries.…

This study tests the social facilitation hypothesis that the mere presence of others is a sufficient condition for the production of audience effects upon learning by controlling the manner in which the subject perceives the audience. Seventy-five high-anxious and 75 low-anxious subjects were divided into three groups of 25 and tested under alone,…

It has been found that an information-processing analysis of latencies collected in an immediate sentence recall task using children with median age 4 years 4 months favors a serial processing mechanism. This mechanism consists of three major parts: (1) The detection of a clausal boundary, (2) the assessment of whether or not the observed…

This paper was concerned with the perceptions that can result from a change in the length of the retinal image of a line. Conditions that lead either to the perception of a line of changing length and the perception of a line of constant length undergoing covering or uncovering by another object were examined. (Author/RK)

In this paper three experimental techniques are described for studying ambiguous characters and for investigating the relationship between physical attributes and functional attributes. (Author)

The multitrait-multimethod matrix technique was used to evaluate student responses to two tests of spatial orientation and visualization. The Eliot-Price tests met all criteria for convergent and discriminant validity. The Guilford-Zimmerman did not meet one of the criteria for discriminant validity. (Author/BJG)

Results do not support the proposition that perceived role conflict and role ambiguity are uniformly unfavorable role perceptions. Rather, they suggest the differential influences of these role perceptions are dependent at least in part upon differences in the outcomes under consideration and the characteristics of the roles in question. (Author)

Children of ages two and one-half, three, and three and one-half years were tested for their understanding of object hiding. Results indicated that children of this age can be both nonegocentric and skillful at estimating what other people do and do not see under various viewing conditions. (JMB)