This article reviews effects of exposing rural welfare recipients to traditional rehabilitation center services. The author concludes that traditional rehabilitation services are effective with this type of client. (Author)

This study compared a physically disabled population with a nondisabled population of college students in a survey that explored attitudes about various sexual behaviors and the participants' own feelings of sexuality. The disabled group scored significantly lower in regard to their own feelings of sexuality. (Author)

Studies the social status that the general population accords occupations. Concludes that the prestige order of occupations in our society has changed very little, despite significant changes in employment opportunities. (Author/HMV)

Tests the hypothesis that biographic variables can be used to identify student career expectations. Subjects were 111 undergraduate, minority students. Results support the hypothesis. (Author/HMV)

Elementary school teachers (N=140) completed a questionnaire on school referrals which asked them to rate the likelihood of referral of a child in five behavioral anecdotes. Results indicate teachers would be more likely to refer boys than girls with identical problems. (Author)

Multiple discriminant analysis of husbands' and wives' (N=430) 16PF scores resulted in significant overall groups differentiation and in two significant discriminant functions labeled tender-mindedness and self-confidence. Social and Enterprising men were significantly similar to their wives on personality dimensions consistent with the defining…

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A typology of styles of loving is applied to the search for partners among gay males, using a sample of advertisers in a gay newspaper. The impact of gay liberation ideology on gay male relationships is considered as a model of predicted changes in heterosexual mate selection patterns. (Author)

This report describes the processes and findings of a north east Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) research project. This was a collaborative research study, which followed from a similar, much larger project in the north west, which looked into how learners view their own progress and achievement in the acquisition of literacy and…

This document contains the text of 1997 legislation to amend and reauthorize the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Act. The act contains five titles that cover the following: Coordination, Planning, and Definitions regarding Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education; Reform of Existing Research, Extension, and Education…

Senior Project is a culminating assessment for 12th graders that determines what they know and can do as they prepare to graduate from high school in North Carolina. It consists of a research paper on an approved topic of the students choice, a product and portfolio related to the paper, and a presentation before a review panel of community…

The fifteen articles in this anthology examine the process of collaboration as it fits into questions of gender. Articles include: "Educate, Organize, and Agitate: A Historical Overview of Feminist Collaboration in Great Britain and America, 1640-1930" (Melodie Andrews); "Beyond Feminism: An Intercultural Challenge for Transforming the Academy"…

Harvard Family Research Project's series of Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshots distills the wealth of information compiled in our Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Database into a single report. Each Snapshot examines a specific aspect of out-of-school time (OST) evaluation. This Snapshot describes the common data collection methods used…

This brief will look at the reasons the state should continue to invest in research. In addition, the paper will provide information about how funding is used for a typical laboratory, and it will highlight a few of the exciting research projects currently being carried out at Ohio's universities. There are three primary reasons why the state…