This report describes the design and results of an experiment to test whether a $10.00 payment to participate in the national Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES) would significantly increase the response rate for the survey. The design and findings of the study, as well as a comparison of response rates prior to and following…

There has been a decrease in research and development activities focused on agricultural education probably due to expanded research in other areas. The document consists of 24 abstracts of completed studies and a list of 23 studies that were in progress during the preparation of this document. The studies are arranged alphabetically by author.…

This report contains one-page summaries of a majority of the 134 research studies funded through the Oklahoma Consortium on Research Development. The research covers the whole spectrum of academic topics , from nursing to ecology to art to politics.. Brief summaries of a majority of the 37 development seminars funded through the Consortium are…

The report describes the results of a study of the extent and characteristics of coverage of the agricultural literature by the "Bibliography of Agriculture" (B of A). Statistical details regarding the language, national origin, form of publication, and subject coverage were derived from a sample of over 5000 citations from the 1967…

A survey collating information on educational research in member states was carried out by questionnaire; this volume contains the replies from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The report from each country is divided into two parts: (1) Governmental Activities, and (2) Activities of Educational Research Institutes. The sections on…

A survey collating information on educational research in member states was carried out by questionnaire; this volume, written in French, contains the replies from Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Holy See, and Switzerland. The report from each country is divided into two parts: (1) Governmental Activities, and (2) Acitivities of…

A survey collating information on educational research in member states was carried out by questionnaire; this volume contains the replies from Austria, Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, and Turkey. The report from each country is divided into two parts: (1) Governmental Activities, and (2) Activities of…

This report surveyed the activities of the Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) at Colorado State University from June 1966 to August 1969. The RCU was responsible for coordinating data collection at several State agencies and research of the State Board and teacher training institutions. Information dissemination activities included the preparation…

This document is the second part of the report of the African Education Research (AER) project. It presents a classification of 416 research projects undertaken by Africans on education issues in Africa during the period from 1970 to 1974. It is designed to provide Africans and Africanists with a resource to assess the state of the art and to…

Recent developments in Northwestern University's Computer Aids to Teaching Project are reviewed in the first section of this issue. Included are pieces of information about the use of the PLATO IV system, and about increasing access to System Development Corporation's Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) files, along with news about…

Eighty-one references selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts are included in the annotated bibliography on cerebral palsy, one in a series of over 50 similar listings dealing with handicapped and gifted children. For each listing, bibliographic and availability information, indexing and retrieval descriptors, and an abstract are…

Compiled from data gathered in fiscal years 1969 and 1970 by the Science Information Exchange, Smithsonian Institution, this inventory of more than 4200 federally and non-federally supported environmental research projects represents an attempt to provide a meaningful look at the shape, complexity, and direction of current and recent research.…

The Educational Research Training Center has trained 54 professional educators in a period of 5 years. It employed a consortium of four universities and 20 public and parochial school districts to accomplish research needed by the member institutions and to train research personnel for the member school districts and universities. Trainees,…

Drastic changes in the teaching market, the nature of our times, and the support of universities demand an examination of present teacher education programs. This investigation set out to examine selected aspects of teacher education programs as a basis for establishing the future direction of the total teacher education program of the Department…

The bibliography of research on the visually handicapped covers approximately 1,300 entries published between the years 1953 and 1971, inclusive. Only those references containing reports of research on the visually handicapped in which empirical data of some kind were collected are included. Studies of single cases are included, with most studies…