The 66 studies in agricultural education completed in the American Vocational Association Central Region during 1967-68 are included in this annotated bibliography. The abstracts are organized according to the study's purpose, method, and findings. Included are masters studies, staff studies, and doctoral dissertations. The 70 studies in progress…

Abstracts of 54 studies in agricultural education completed in the American Vocational Association Southern Region in the years 1967-68 are included in this mimeographed document. Represented are staff studies, doctoral dissertations and masters theses. The individual abstracts include the purpose, method, and findings of the study. (DM)

The 58 research studies in agricultural education completed in 1967-68 in the North Atlantic Region of the American Vocational Association are abstracted in this mimeographed document. Each abstract contains the research study's purpose, method, and major findings. Masters theses, staff studies, and doctoral dissertations are included. (DM)

The National Institute of Mental Health is continuing support of several studies designed to measure trends in the use of hallucinogens. Indications are that the evidence for persisting psychological and birth defect damage from chronic LSD use is minimal. Though they are a continuing problem, admissions to psychiatric units of persons with "bad…

This final report is a brief outline of Phase One in the preparation of a comprehensive reference grammar of Tamil, based on the results of recent linguistic theory and analytic techniques, and designed to be "accessible" to any student of Tamil. The studies which have resulted from Phase One are "strictly preliminary" to a larger study of the…

This research was based on a counseling model of prevention through attempts to influence the behaviors of significant adults. Group counseling was offered to parents of first-, seventh-, and ninth-grade children during the first year of the project. During the second year group meetings for teachers were conducted. Previous monographs have…

This volume has four major sections: (1) Abstracts of instructional and research materials, which present information about authors, titles, availability, and content of documents; (2) subject index, (3) author index, which helps locate relevant documents by author/institution names, and (4) projects in progress, which announces in-progress…

This study tests the hypothesis that persons will express relatively independent degrees of preference for ambiguity in different experiential domains. An original measure consisting of four subscales was developed to assess individual differences in the theoretical, social, economic and aesthetic domains, and was administered to a student sample.…

This study of the present and projected space requirements for book and periodical collections of the State University of New York Libraries, excluding community colleges, is based on the assumptions that the annual rate of acquisitions and the present space dedicated to book and periodical shelving remain constant. The survey questionnaire…

Information on this list of vocational education research projects for fiscal year 1977 includes the following: state name and project number; grant number or contract number; grantee or contractor and project director's address; the title of the project; project time period; and the amount of the grant. A section is also provided for the special…

Adolescent coital activity and the attendant risk of pregnancy is a problem with far-reaching implications. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of family variables on adolescent sexual behavior and contraceptive practices. More specifically, the research question was: Could a set of parent-adolescent interpersonal variables be…

Established by Congressional Act in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is charged with a variety of responsibilities in the areas of education, research, applications of research, data gathering, and information dissemination. The foundation is governed by an appointed director and a national board and is primarily funded by the federal…

An anonymous religious poll and the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) were administered to 168 white University of Maryland entering freshmen. The anonymous poll consisted of 29 items pertaining to religious activities, beliefs, and issues. The SAS is an instrument designed to measure attitudes of whites toward blacks in 10 situations. The results…

Ninety-two graduate students in counseling and psychology were asked to respond to tasks measuring creative expression and certain value constructs. Significant, although minimal, correlations occurred between some factors of creativity and values. The value scale produced two opposing value factors for this sample of counselors. Results suggest…

This paper presents Project C-BE suggestions for those investigating the possibilities of using computers as an instructional resource. Topics are suggested to stimulate thought with regard to both the problems and the potential of computer-based education. (Author/CH)