Ninety-six female introductory psychology students differing in terms of the dimensions of neuroticism-stability and introversion-extraversion performed two sets of thirty trials each on a choice reaction time task. On one of the sets of trials the Ss were observed by two female observers and on the other set of trials the observers were not…

In accordance with the goals of the Rehabilitation Counselor Education (RCE) accreditation movement, the Council On Rehabilitation Education (CORE) contracted the research aspects of the accreditation project to the University of Wisconsin-Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute to develop a series of data gathering instruments to assess,…

Relatively little data exist concerning the effectiveness of Navy intercultural relations (ICR) training programs. In addition, much training research in this area is characterized by methodological and design inadequacies. The purposes of this study were to design and test a methodological model, and to provide an objective assessment of ICR…

Overcrowded residence halls at Rutgers University form the basis for this research study on the effects of overcrowding. Subjects were the occupants of 31 rooms (7 triple male rooms, 7 triple female rooms, 7 double male rooms, and 10 double female rooms). Two sets of measures were used to determine whether crowding caused arousal and stress. The…

This monograph describes, step-by-step, a coordinated system for involving former high school students, graduates, and transfer students in the evaluation of educational programs and services in American schools overseas. Although the system has been field-tested in an overseas setting, its use by schools within the United States requires only a…

It has generally been shown that the high school record is the best single predictor of college-level achievement, and that the most valid predictors accrue when high school record information is given more weight than selection-test scores in admissions decisions. In actual admissions practice, however, test scores are often given the most…

This document reports on the results of the Inter-Agency Task Force project to promulgate guidelines and procedures to facilitate counseling services for minority group students in secondary schools that would maximize "other-race" application patterns among the colleges in Maryland. Among the items discussed in the deliberations of the task force…

The first in a series of three reports by the National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services which analyze various components of ESEA, this document discusses reasons students drop out of school, reviews some of the methods being used in dealing with the problem in various states and local school districts, and offers several…

One of a series on the visual information transfer problems of the partially sighted, the report contains a detailed description of the double X-Y platform, a mechanical device used in conjunction with a closed circuit television system to permit users to read printed or handwritten materials and to take notes on or copy from the material. Also…

The purpose of this historical report is to further the cause of rural sociology in the South. It is based on the author's memory of events relating to research activities, minutes of meetings, correspondence in his files, and selected reports from other rural sociologists in the South. Specifically discussed are the limited personnel in rural…

Based on information derived from research resumes of the Cooperative State Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), this inventory of rural development research in the Southern States is part of the Southern Rural Development Center's effort to establish a base of knowledge on rural development and to point to gaps in…

An expanded duties role of the multiple-program evaluator as an integral part of the ongoing decision-making process in all projects served is defended. Assumptions discussed included that need for projects with related objectives to pool resources and avoid duplication of effort and the evaluator's unique ability to provide an objective…

The purpose of this paper was to assess the relative contribution of family background and school contextual factors to the explanation of variance in self-concept among high school students and to evaluate the effect of self-concept on subsequent student achievement performance. Data for the project was gathered from a three-year study of the…

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that if parents are given information about their child, his interests, skills, and competencies, information about the world of work, and practice in simulated career decision making, they will transmit this training to their child. Twenty parents of 10th and 11th grade students were asked to volunteer…

Experimenters photographed 105 couples at a high school dance and obtained detailed self-report measures from each partner. A panel of judges rated each partner's physical attractiveness from the photographs. Partners were found to be similar in attractiveness, and feelings of "love" expressed by the two members of each pair were highly…