Eighty-four students in the first session of a graduate course were asked to indicate the forces which affected the curriculum in their school. Over the beginning of three terms, the students divided themselves into small groups of five or six persons to list the suggestions offered in response to this question. A recorder in each group listed the…

This project involved the development of a manual for science teachers to use in improving their use of selected inquiry teaching behaviors. The behaviors are asking observation questions, asking interpretation questions, acknowledging and reinforcing pupil responses, extending pupil responses, and probing pupil responses. The manual, Handbook on…

Investigated was whether retarded readers make more gain in reading achievement when taught by the regular classroom teacher using prescriptions written by the diagnostic teacher than they had under the traditional basal reader approach. Subjects were 17 fifth graders in the lowest reading group in a public school classroom. Subjects were tested…

This monograph is the third in a series summarizing the work progress of the Human Services Manpower Career Center, a special research and development project funded by the U. S. Department of Labor. This volume offers a core curriculum for the training of workers in state human services agencies, geared primarily to the use of the community…

ON OCTOBER 19, 1963, SPECIALISTS REPORTED THE FINDINGS OF STUDIES THEN UNDERWAY AND OUTLINED THE RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENCIES. QUESTIONS WERE RAISED ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF BLINDNESS FOR RESEARCH AND SERVICE PURPOSES. SPEAKERS DISCUSSED THE POSSIBLE USE OF SUCH DATA SOURCES AS STATEWIDE REGISTERS OF THE BLIND, THE…

This is the first of several reports on the "Study Methods in Mathematics Project;" the goal of the project is to describe and develop practical study methods which are especially suitable for adults' study of mathematics. In this report, the background of the project is discussed in terms of experience from research on the study habits…

In this newsletter, a description of the "Study Methods in Mathematics Project" is given. Name, place, project leader, time schedule, objective, personnel, subjects, research methods, research data, and the purpose of the project are all briefly described. A short annotated bibliography of publications related to the project is included.…

This study reports the results of a pilot Change Agent Research (CAR) project initiated in the summer of 1975 by the Sports Institute for Research (SIR) for the Windsor Minor Lacrosse Association. The purpose of the project was to audit the association to diagnose the nature of its organizational problems and assist in initiating change in order…

Attribution theory focuses on the differences in perceptions that people have of the causes of behaviors and events. In this study attribution theory was used to determine the effect of role in a counseling interview on ratings of causal attributions for counselor and client behaviors. Counselor trainees (n=42) were randomly assigned to the roles…

This research derives from the proposition that a helping relationship influences the helper's perceptions of the recipient, and that the perceptual consequences are not necessarily positive. It was hypothesized that persons who help tend to underestimate the ability of the recipient. In a 2 X 2 factorial design, subjects (48 college males)…

College students (n=192) read two 1-1/2 page passages on the concepts of autism and trochaic meter. After reading, four independent groups answered questions requiring either a summary, the generation of a new example of the concept, a listing of the critical attributes of the concept, or the identification of a new example. All groups received…

Three studies were conducted to investigate stereotypes of men of various hair colors by middle-class Anglo college students. Study 1 found an increase of perceived blondness with status, while lack of status was associated with red hair. Study 2, using semantic differentials (after Osgood), found blonde males to be significantly more beautiful,…

The Cost and Funding Studies project of the proposed Western Interstate Bibliographic Network began activities in July 1975. The goals of the project were to: (1) determine representative costs of present library services in the West, (2) estimate future costs of library services in the West with proposed network support, (3) evaluate and compare…

A change commonly found in older persons is a general tendency for responses to external stimuli to be slowed. The document includes a review of theoretical approaches to the explanation of slowing on cognitive tasks that occur with age, and reviews the methodology of a two-part experimental study of 45 subjects. The study reports a…

Two studies, the second essentially a replication of the first, were conducted to clarify the meaning of vocational maturity in female career development. The sample consisted of 55 college women in the first study and 145 women in the second study. Correlational analysis examined the relationship of vocational maturity, using the Career Maturity…