This booklet contains the annual report for 1971-72 of the Scottish Council for Research in Education. The first section lists the officers, members, principle officials, and staff responsible for special projects. The second section presents reports from the various committees of the council, stressing the reconstruction of the council's…

As a member of a significant helping profession, the Social Worker is engaged in relationship activities not unlike those of the counselor of guidance worker. The present study set out to investigate certain performance aspects demonstrated to be important to the level of relationship functioning in the social work field. Specifically the research…

This report summarizes the characteristics of 1971 and 1972 Hofstra freshmen as determined by the American Council of Education survey of freshmen. Responses to almost all of the questionnaire items are summarized in tabular form. In the tables, comparative data are also presented for the 110 freshmen at New College. In addition, comparative data…

This investigation probed characteristics of students attending nine Wesleyan colleges (five liberal arts and four Bible). Characteristics of collegiate learning environments were also explored to see how well-suited these were to the students served. Following a review of more than 200 articles, books and evaluative instruments, a 6-page…

This document is a delineation of student enrollments for the fall semester 1972 from the 42 accredited Kentucky colleges and universities. The enrollments are aggregated by institution, state, foreign country, and Kentucky resident students by county of origin. A few general findings related to the overall enrollment characteristics of the…

This study investigated the academic pecking order myth. Focus was placed on the concepts that whether certain programs within a single-purpose college attract the "better" students, that certain schools or departments maintain the "highest" standards, and that the student in-migration or out-migration patterns within certain groups are either…

This article establishes guidelines for conducting and evaluating research projects according to a scientific methodology. The organizational format suggested here follows an outline with elements and details that should be considered in an investigation. Each part of the proposed outline is explained, and terms are defined. Project evaluation is…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TRANSFER OF LEARNING STUDIES WAS COMPLETED FOR U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION CONTRACT NO. 4-20-002 AS APPENDIX "A" (SECTION TWO) TO THE FINAL REPORT. IT CONTAINS 1,775 TITLES FROM THE PERIOD 1890 TO 1966 ON TRANSFER OF LEARNING. THE CONCERN WAS TO COMPILE THE EMPIRICALLY BASED PRINCIPLES RELATING TO TRANSFER OF TRAINING…

IN THE SUMMER OF 1965, A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM WAS ASSEMBLED AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY TO CONSIDER THE PROBLEM OF IMPROVING INSTRUCTION IN ART APPRECIATION IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO PRODUCE NOT LESS THAN EIGHT CORRELATED STUDIES FOCUSED ON SOME OF THE CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN FUTURE RESEARCH…

Twenty-six public interest research groups (PIRGs) were surveyed on aspects of their organizations. Key findings include: (1) most PIRGs concentrate primarily on public interest issues rather than campus-specific issues; (2) most have four or fewer full-time staff and annual budgets of less than $50,000; (3) most are supported by six or fewer…

Male and female bystanders witnessed a violent theft in the course of a bogus "ESP Experiment." In addition to the subjects' sex, two experimental manipulations were orthogonally crossed. The subject was either the only one to witness the emergency, or witnessed it with an additional participant (diffusion of responsibility), and the subject's…

High school students (N=81) were surveyed regarding their attitudes on nine factors regarding the alcoholic and his alcoholism, and the drug abuser and his drug abuse. Analysis of the data indicated that on eight of the nine factors the students tended to view the two pathologies in essentially the same way. (Author)

This study investigated the tendency to view one's chosen occupation as ideal, the meaning of an ideal occupation, and the consequences of choosing an ideal occupation. It was found that the most likely students to consider their chosen occupation ideal were high in both self-esteem and career salience. (Author)

The constructs in Holland's theory were compared for male and female college students using the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and an adjective checklist (ACL). The correspondence between the VPI for male and female college students' was high. The correspondence between the variables as measured by the ACL for male and female students was…

The hypothesis that drug attitude effects of drug education would vary as a function of the valences of the facts learned was tested. Undergraduates (N=48) interacted with a computer to request and receive pseudo-facts about a bogus drug. As predicted, students who received all positive facts evaluated the drug more favorably. (Author)