As an aid to foreign visitors and educational researchers overseas, this survey presents an overview of current educational research in Sweden's research departments in education. The booklet's introduction first summarizes the historical development and present organization of Swedish educational research and describes current trends, interest…

A group of depressed women outpatients who were attending the outpatient clinic of a Midwestern state hospital were assigned women volunteers who had been trained in either problem solving and Rogerian relationship techniques or cognitive-behavioral therapy. Volunteers met with patients at least one hour per week. Patients were assessed on various…

Utilizing questionnaires, this study investigated the possible relationships among sex role ideology, sex role socialization experiences and motivation for parenthood. Subjects included 174 adopting (the traditional homemaker-mother role) and 126 dual-career parents. Adoptive subjects tended to express traditional sex role ideologies, while…

Commuter students completed the Interpersonal Conflict Questionnaire which asked about four interactions involving hostility ranging from silent anger to physical violence. Results showed that intense episodes typically occurred longer ago, and most opponents were known for more than a year. Intense episodes were more likely to occur at one's own…

A locally-constructed family planning questionnaire and a series of personality instruments were administered to 100 sexually active, unmarried, undergraduate students (60 females, 40 males). Responses to a question of "whose responsibility is it for using birth control measures" showed that 80% of the women and 83% of the men see that…

The stereotype of women athletes in college is predominantly positive rather than negative. In one study, female athletes were seen to be strong, strong-willed, leaders, brave and healthy. In the second study, women were judged to be significantly more attractive when the interviewer was male, and males gave significantly higher ratings than…

The interactions of 10-month-old infants and their mothers were observed using mathematical models of interaction which state that the child's behavior depends on recent characteristics of mother's behavior, and that the mother's behavior depends on recent characteristics of the child's. Therefore, changes in the intensity of the behavior of one…

An experiment was performed to test two hypotheses. One was that there would be a curvilinear relationship between increased degrees of a negative communication and persuasion, and the other was that there would be a positive and linear relationship between a positive communication and persuasion. College undergraduate smokers and nonsmokers were…

The reactions of observers (N=168 college students) to an actor's embarrassment were examined by manipulating the perceived link between actor and observer (cooperative, competitive, or independent) and the observational set of the observer (empathic or nonempathic). The observers' self-ratings of embarrassment and measures of their skin potential…

This paper proposes a user designed system, HUC, intended to provide a single index and retrieval system covering all recorded knowledge and information capable of being retrieved from all modes of storage, from manual to the most sophisticated retrieval system. The concept integrates terminal hardware, software, and database structure to allow…

THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER, BEGUN IN 1958, CONSISTS OF SCHOLARS WHO ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON THE PROBLEMS FACED BY YOUNG PEOPLE GROWING UP IN A CITY, AND WHO ARE SEEKING WAYS TO ELIMINATE OR REDUCE THOSE PROBLEMS. THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER IS A RESEARCH-EDUCATION-DEMONSTRATION ORGANIZATION WHOSE RESEARCH IS DIRECTED AT GAINING A BETTER…

PROGRAMMATIC RESEARCH IS DISCUSSED AS ONE OF THE BASIC NEEDS OF READING RESEARCH. OTHER NEEDS ARE--(1) FOR BASIC RESEARCH THAT FOCUSES ON THE READING PROCESS, (2) FOR LEADERSHIP THAT VALUES SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY AND INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, AND (3) TO INFORM AND CONVINCE THE PUBLIC OF THE POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF READING RESEARCH. PROGRAMMATIC…

THIS CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTATION AND INNOVATION DEALT WITH THE FOLLOWING TOPICS--(1) "EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGES IN AMERICA," AN OVERVIEW OF THE DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS OF INNOVATION, (2) "THE EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE AT BERKELEY," DESCRIBING A "PROBLEMS" APPROACH TO AVOID THE "DOMINATION OF... THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE," (3) "THE LIBRARY-COLLEGE,"…

THE LIBRARY RESEARCH CLEARINGHOUSE, ALREADY ESTABLISHED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, WAS EXPANDED TO DEVELOP THE REQUIREMENTS OF A SYSTEM OF RETRIEVAL AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ABOUT RESEARCH IN PROGRESS IN LIBRARY SCIENCE. THE BASIC OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO CREATE THE CLEARINGHOUSES'S SERVICES IN ACQUISITION, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, AND…

A HISTORY OF THE CONCERN FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN BY THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU IS FOLLOWED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF ITS VARIOUS PROGRAMS. HEALTH SERVICES INCLUDE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS SERVING THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, PERSONNEL TRAINING THROUGH GRANTS TO UNIVERSITIES, GRANT PROGRAMS FOR MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE PROJECTS, AND…