AN EXAMINATION OF 29 STUDIES REVEALS A GREAT VARIATION IN THE PROCEDURES AND FINDINGS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS IN JUNIOR COLLEGE CURRICULA AND INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, THE STUDIES USUALLY DID ONE OF FOUR THINGS--(1) CONSIDERED PROGRAMS AT A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS, (2) SUMMARIZED THE RATIONALE AND PROCEDURE OF AN…

THIS STUDY IS AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE USE OF BELOW-CHANCE SCORES CAN BE EXPECTED TO GIVE DIFFERENT RESULTS IN PREDICTION OF GRADES THAN THE USE OF ABOVE-CHANCE SCORES, THAT IS, WHETHER IT IS SOUND TO USE BELOW-CHANCE SCORES IN AN ACADEMIC-PREDICTION REGRESSION EQUATION. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM THE THREE PUBLIC, PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO…

HOW TO MOBILIZE STATE COLLEGE FACULTY RESOURCES TO STUDY THE MEANS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION WAS THE CONCERN OF THIS PROJECT. THE PROJECT WAS A 2-DAY CONFERENCE ON LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, HELD IN JANUARY 1965 WHICH WAS FOLLOWED IN APRIL, 1965, BY A MEETING OF A SMALL NUMBER OF THE CONFERENCE DELEGATES TO DEVELOP FURTHER THE…

These summaries of research and development reports are issued by the Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor (DOL) and are designed to provide pertinent information about specific research and development (R&D) studies. Each of the 10 summaries includes availability and cost (where applicable), source of the report,…

This collection of speeches and essays concerns various viewpoints on the subject of adult education research. The first paper, Lifelong Learning: Problems in Research (Apps), examines the viewpoint that the majority of research as now practiced is not consistent with the major assumptions in the field of adult education. The next essay,…

The role of co-investigator, in which the teacher leaves the classroom for half a day to work on a selected research project, is delineated. Teacher collaborators become involved as active participants with professional researchers in all phases of the research project in progress. The issues involved in collaboration, including the…

A format is drawn for planning, writing, and assessing a collaborative research proposal. A description is given of the essential sections of a research proposal, and a brief explanation of each is provided. A suggested evaluation procedure is included to use for evaluating and ranking each proposal against established, published standards. These…

A group of 45 undergraduates discussed a moral issue with a confederate who had the same opinion (no-controversy) or opposite opinion (controversy). Subjects in the controversy conditions were induced to have a high level of defensiveness by a disconfirmation of personal competence or a low level of defensiveness by a confirmation. Subjects in…

THE WASHINGTON RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT (RCU), ORGANIZED IN THE WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ON JUNE 1, 1965, AIMED TO INITIATE, COORDINATE, AND RELATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, ACTIVITIES, AND INFORMATION TO MEET THE VOCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE STATE'S YOUTH. MAJOR PROJECTS CARRIED OUT UNDER CONTRACT BETWEEN THE RCU AND…

THE PROJECT METHOD OF FUNDING RESEARCH PLACES IMPORTANCE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SUCH RESEARCH IN BOTH PLANNING AND OPERATIONAL STAGES. TYPICAL RESEARCH PROPOSALS DO NOT DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH THE SCHEDULE TO BE MAINTAINED, THE COMPLEX OF INTERRELATED ACTIVITIES, THE NATURE OF THE TASKS TO BE PERFORMED, OR THE TIME AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO DO THE TASK.…

THE SIXTH-QUARTER ACTIVITIES OF THE WYOMING RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT ARE REPORTED AS COMPLETED, PROJECTS UNDERWAY, AND PROPOSED. SIX COMPLETED PROJECTS INCLUDED A NATIONAL SURVEY OF TRAVEL REGULATIONS GOVERNING STATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS, A STUDY OF THE REASONS FOR PRACTICAL NURSING STUDENTS DISCONTINUING THEIR TRAINING AT THE…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE FOLLOWING FOUR FACTORS, SIMULTANEOUSLY AND SEPARATELY, AFFECT THE RATES OF CHEATING AMONG 10TH GRADE STUDENTS--(1) INDIVIDUAL ROLE ADAPTATIONS, (2) PEER GROUP INFLUENCE, (3) SOCIAL CONTEXT, AND (4) FAMILY INFLUENCE. A PARADIGM (MERTON'S) THAT RELATES INDIVIDUAL ANOMIA, SOCIAL…

The third appendix to "Research and Development in Vocational and Technical Education for Non-Metropolitan Areas" (VT 007 214) contains four major subdivisions: (1) a survey of projects funded by the U.S. Office of Education during 1965 and 1966, (2) a selected bibliography of books listing 329 references on occupational training and career…

"Micro-counseling" is a video method of training counselors in basic skills of counseling within a short period of time. This research studies the effects of micro-counseling training procedures upon three groups of beginning counselors. These three different skills, attending behavior, reflection of feeling, and summarization of…

This catalog describes the status and content of research programs which were either developed or administered by the Office of Manpower Research under Title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) or the Economic Opportunity Act for the fiscal year ending June 1968. Brief summaries are given for 71 active MDTA research contracts,…