To determine if training in argumentation could affect the bases for student evaluation of communication aimed at changing opinions, students from Michigan State University formed an experimental group (those in an argumentation course) and a control group (those in a business letter writing course). The treatments consisted of four varying…

The study involved the collection of (1) research reports, published through 1968, including journal articles and dissertation abstracts, and (2) information on developmental projects, supplemented by ERIC documents on funded research and Title III project reports. The journal articles were analyzed, categorized on ten aspects, evaluated, and…

This volume of the Final Report on the Interpretive Study of Research and Development in Elementary School Mathematics contains materials which are most appropriate for the researcher. Whether he is working at the pre-doctoral level or the post-doctoral level, the researcher has a recurrent need to know the results of previous research, and the…

To gather the information for this section, visits were made to each of ten major curriculum development projects. These were selected because of the impact which each has had on curriculum reform--past, present, and future. It was not possible to visit every project, and several of the more significant ones, such as the Greater Cleveland…

All reading-related projects and reports were selected from "Research in Education," July 1967 to December 1968, for inclusion in this abstract bibliography. The reports included were processed by the staff of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and were submitted to "Research in Education." The total list of 617 document references is divided into…

The research reported in this paper is the result of a project to develop a preschool mathematics curriculum for economically deprived children in Hawaii. The developed materials were tested with preschool children in Head Start classes and a preliminary assessment of the curriculum was made. An attempt was made to evaluate the curriculum which…

This final report of the Massachusetts Vocational Education Research Coordinating Unit (RCU), covers the activities during the period, April 1967 through October 1969. During the first year (April 1967-June 1968), the RCU concentrated on establishing an information system and announcing its existance. One third of the staff time was devoted to…

This compilation of research in agricultural education includes abstracts of 82 studies completed during 1968-69 in 11 of the 13 states of the American Vocational Association Central Region. They are arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by subject. A list of studies in progress in 1969-70 is also included. The abstracts are organized…

Abstracts of 41 studies in agricultural education completed in the American Vocational Association North Atlantic Region, in the years 1968-69, 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 each study.…

The register of research currently underway in Europe on visual impairment contains a scan-column index of approximately 60 research topics and an alphabetical list of 204 research workers. Criteria for selection are explained to have limited project inclusion to studies of conditions which have so far proved intractable to amelioration through…

Twenty-nine institutions of higher education operating in Nebraska in the fall term of 1972 were surveyed with regard to enrollment statistics. Statistics indicate by county and institutions the head-count enrollments by type of institution, academic level, counties of origin, size of 1967 county 12th grade enrollment, regions, and states.…

Professionals in the fields of counseling and counseling psychology do not have a clearly defined role that helps them to form a professional identity. Many of the functions presently performed by professional counselors are within the capacity of trained, mental health paraprofessionals. However, research indicates that professional counselors…

Ninety-seven new residents entering five randomly selected residence halls at the University of Maryland, College Park, completed a questionnaire on their first impressions (2 to 4 weeks) of their dorm and changes they would like to see. Fifty-six had never lived in a residence hall before and 44% had, and 59% did not know anyone on their floor…

In 1971-72, 334 students in 16 sections in beginning French, and in 1972-73, 331 students in 24 sections in the same course, rated their graduate student instructors on a 35-item scale. Student performance data on the first, midterm, and final departmental examinations and on SAT-V (1972-73 only) were taken, and residual learning gain (final exam…

The study was designed to assess the impact of three predominantly black colleges upon Family Independence (FI), Peer Independence (PI), Liberalism (L), Social Conscience (SC), and Cultural Sophistication (CS), as defined and measured according to the College Student Questionnaires (CSQ). The CSQs were administered to students as entering freshmen…