The 1970-71 activities of the Research Department of the California Teachers Association are summarized. The activities of the Department are categorized as follows: (1) publication of research articles, reports, and the California Journal of Educational Research; (2) handling of information requests through the department's Research Information…

Supported by funds from the Federal Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, staff members of West Virginia University's Appalachian Center designed and implemented a 5-year experimental program designed to improve the economic conditions and the quality of living in 2 Appalachian communities. The approach was that of community and…

After tracing the rationale, development, and activities of this project on problem areas in Mexican American education--from initial identification of 26 problem areas, to a review of 19 position papers, to the final delineation of 10 priority areas for research and/or development--this report presents for each of these top-priority areas…

During fiscal year 1970, the states received $1.1 million for research under Section 131(b) of Part C of the Vocational Education Amendment. This amount was sufficient for states to keep their Research Coordinating Units (RCU's) functioning, but provided very little for new research. The main activities of the RCU's were to disseminate results of…

Contracts awarded during the 13 fiscal years of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 in the Language and Area Development Program are listed in this bibliography. The program, authorized to support research, studies, surveys, and the preparation of specialized materials to strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, awarded 618…

Future community changes in Pittsburgh over the next five years are predicted in this study, the purpose of which is to determine the extent of community consensus regarding changes and the extent to which widely differing perspectives of community leaders might contribute to conflict. One hundred and six selected, prominent, community leaders…

The purpose of this literature review is to assist teachers and curriculum developers in the practical definition and implementation of career education in their respective school systems. As a part of a larger federally-funded career education curriculum development project, this work is being carried out by a consortium of eight California…

The purpose of this research was to study the effects of men's attitudes toward the principles of the women's liberation movement as a function of their own self-esteem. The author hypothesizes that males found to have high levels of self esteem will have favorable and positive attitudes toward women's liberation while men with low levels of self…

The study attempts to test hypotheses derived from the model of interpersonal attraction suggested by Kerckhoff and Davis, who investigated the issue of need complementarity versus similarity in their longitudinal research upon couples who were engaged or otherwise seriously attached and who proposed that homogamy in social attributes is…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of indiscriminate use of counselor reflection, probe, confrontation, and free style on client behavior and client perceptions of counseling. The experiment was conducted at the University of Tennessee with 20 female volunteers from undergraduate education courses serving as subjects and four…

The study explores the effect of the teacher's personality on the evaluation of students. The personality concept applied here, internal vs. external control of reinforcement, has evolved out of Rotter's social learning theory; internals (I's) tend to feel that they control their own destiny while externals (E's) tend to see forces beyond their…

The paper describes trends in student learning style preferences and identifies various characteristics of students associated with these preferences by examining data gathered from college students on three different occasions: at the time they entered college; at the end of their freshman year; and at the end of their sophomore year. By…

This report discusses the alternative program structure developed independently at the University of Georgia, by dealing with a particular phase of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) work, i.e., their Program Classification Structure (PCS). Three primary programs presented by NCHEMS are considered as primary…

This document reports the results of the fall 1972 racial census at the University of Maryland. Only new freshmen, transfer students, and readmitted students filled out the racial census cards. All returning students constituted the data base of the student body. By adding new and deleting old racial census cards, counts could be made. Results of…

Volume II of a study of the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) training program for higher education personnel indicates the first of a three-faceted approach to assess current training needs. The approach, a survey, employed two questionnaires: the Presidential Questionnaire, designed to elicit background data and judgments concerning…