The authors report the results of a pilot research program in Texas involving the use of local low-income farmers as agricultural program aides to bring about changes in agricultural production and management and level of living. (Editor)

The relationship between locus of control and drinking behavior in a population whose drinking behavior ranged from abstinence to problem drinking is examined. (Author)

An analysis of the patterns of use that were observed in 28 computer-based conferences involving scientists and engineers is presented. In the initial chapter, computer conferencing is discussed as a medium of communication and a description of the analytical approach is provided, as well as an overview of the 28 FORUM conferences observed. In…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES RESEARCH STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION--BOTH RESEARCH IN PROGRESS AND RESEARCH RECENTLY COMPLETED. INCLUDED ARE (1) THE AUTHORS' NAMES AND ADDRESSES, (2) A SUMMARY OF THE PURPOSE, SCOPE, METHOD, AND MAJOR FINDINGS OF STUDY, AND (4) THE ADDRESSES FROM WHICH COPIES MAY BE SECURED. THE CONTENTS ARE DIVIDED INTO 13 BROAD…

Several of the more familiar Illuminating Engineering Research Institute projects which have been chronicled progressively during the past several years are discussed in this report. Those elaborated on are--(1) visual performance and illumination, (2) roadway visual tasks, (3) color preference studies, (4) glare from large sources, (5) discomfort…

Twenty-three documents on the field of linguistics are abstracted in this bulletin. Information given for each document includes the author, title, date of publication, publisher, information retrieval descriptors, and an abstract. The availability of each document is noted. Information is supplied at the end of the bulletin for ordering documents…

One hundred and fifty-two terminated research grants are listed. Information includes grant number, investigator, institution, and title of research. Requests for reports or publication are to be made directly to the investigator. (JK)

The report describes the third in a series of Conferences for New Manpower Researchers. The purpose of the conference is to serve as a forum for the interchange of ideas among 1969 Manpower doctoral grant recipients as a means of broadening their perspective on manpower policy issues. The Conference setting provides participants an opportunity to…

This compendium contains 100-word abstracts of most of the papers presented at the 1971 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The approximately 300 abstracts are divided into seven categories: administration, curriculum and objectives, instruction and learning, measurement and research methodology, counseling and human…

A LISTING OF RETRIEVAL TERMS FOR DOCUMENTS IN MUSIC IS PRESENTED IN THIS EXPERIMENTAL THESAURUS. INCLUDED IN THE LISTING ARE "USE" ENTRIES WHICH DIRECT THE THESAURUS USER TO PREFERRED TERMS. (SEE ED 010 298.) (GC)

Fear of death was measured in 60 subjects at conscious, fantasy and nonconscious levels using two different instruments. Most individuals were seen as denying fear at a conscious level, being ambivalent at mid-level, and exhibiting a fear pattern at the nonconscious level. (BP)

Much of the material presented here derives from a study of the termination phase of group development undertaken to test the validity of a portion of a stages model developed by Garland, Kolodny, and Jones (1965). This model for stages of group development postulates five stages of group life. (Author)

Subjects were 296 Introductory Psychology students. Pre-test and post-test measures were obtained as a measure of opinion change. Contrary to most previous research, results indicated that there were no significant sex differences or interactions in persuasibility using topics of low or high involvement. (Author)