Brief summaries are given of the research activities of the Research Committee of the Texas Association of Junior College Instructional Administrators. The reports are on investigations of how transfer students succeed in four-year colleges and universities, new methods of teaching various sciences, new curriculum designs, and how to develop…

An attempt was made to reduce or eliminate rule effects in attribute identification (AI) tasks through AI pretraining. Thirty-six 12th-grade volunteers received 0, 4, or 8 AI problems prior to transfer to a final AI task. Results showed that even at the highest level of pretraining, rule effects were present at transfer. These findings were…

The relationship between learning ability and intelligence has continually been a focus of theory and research. It is argued in this paper that the inconclusive results of studies relating individual differences variables such as intellectual abilities to learning are due to a too pragmatic, theoretical orientation. Theoretical models explicating…

Objective job satisfaction questionnaires were administered to more than 26,000 U.S. Marines, as part of the Marine Corps' occupational task analysis of 16 separate occupational groups over a three-year period. Results indicate that intrinsic job factors are more potent than extrinsic factors, both as satisfiers and as dissatisfiers. Satisfaction…

This study explores a range of issues characterizing prisonization research based on male populations but does so utilizing cross-sectional questionnaire data gathered from 172 female felons and misdemeanants incarcerated in a prison for women in the southeastern United States. The analysis concentrates on three major issues: (1) the relation of…

The project summarized by this report involved a preliminary design of a model for estimating and predicting the quantity and composition of solid waste and a determination of its feasibility. The novelty of the prediction model is that it estimates and predicts on the basis of knowledge of materials and quantities before they become a part of the…

Included in this issue of the newsletter are details about the usage of the currently available computer terminals, information about equipment soon to be added to the Computer Aids to Teaching Project, and an announcement describing a workshop and open house held in March of 1973. Some recent publications are cited and a student guide to…

The University Opinion Poll conducted a poll to obtain an estimate of student opinion on issues related to foreign students on campus. Four hundred eighty two, 79% of a random sample drawn from all students registered at the University of Minnesota, were contacted for their opinions. Most respondents favored keeping the number of foreign students…

Whereas threatened punishment proves effective under conditions where the instrumental value of aggressive behavior is quite low, the following techniques of control may work better in situations where the value of aggression is relatively high: (1) the use of restrained, non-aggressive models; (2) empathic arousal among aggressors; or (3)…

This document reports demographic information about the students of Empire State College (ESC), a new, nontraditional college without a campus of the State University of New York. Results indicate ESC students differ from their counterparts at other institutions in several ways including: older, higher percentage married, and higher percentage…

This study: (1) determines and quantifies the degree of fear expressed by graduate students at Arizona State University toward a research methods course (EF 500); identifies graduate students who indicate a high measure of anxiety for EF 500; and (3) compares them with students in whom measured fear is expressed to a low degree, is absent, or is…

The American Sociological Association's sub-committee on liaison with East European sociologists has started publishing this newsletter 6 times a year to inform social scientists of professional events. Sections in the newsletter are directed to professional meetings in countries of this area, research opportunities, grants awarded, publications…

This report describes a multivariate analysis technique that approaches the problems of educational production function analysis by (1) using comparable measures of output across large experiments, (2) accounting systematically for differences in socioeconomic background, and (3) treating the school as a complete system in which different…

How farmers evaluate farm information sources, the views they hold of sources, and the relationship of views held to the use made of them were studied. The research was undertaken from two different vantage points: (1) determining how farmers view farm information sources, and (2) determining how views of farmers about sources are related to the…

The 10 chapters of this book are a compilation of 37 articles, by various authors, that are related to one of the following subjects: The Nature of Listening; Relationships: Listening and Reading; Relationships: Listening and Other Psychometric Factors; The Teaching of Listening; Testing Listening Skills; Critical Listening; Listening and the…