A review of The Social Scientist in American Industry: Self-Perception of Role, Motivation, and Career" (Rutgers University Press), by Matthew Radom. Data were provided by 231 psychologists, economists, sociologists, and statisticians holding a doctorate and employed full time in private industry. (Author/RY)

A summary and analysis of the reports of the Scranton Commission on Campus Unrest. (HS)

Provides a comprehensive outline for a regional environmental and ecological inventory, including archaeological-historical, visual, and land use (including cultural use) components that could well be used in studies of the ecological and historical characteristics of regions." (Author/AL)

An exercise in determining a primary standard for hydraulic fluid volume flow rate. Technical Education is a bimonthly supplement to Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. (Editor/GB)

Some results from the first year of the national assessment of educational progress project. (RA) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

The computer technician must become sensitive to cultural factors at work between the dominant culture--of which computers form a part--and the subculture present in many communities. Otherwise, computer technology will fail to serve those communities. (DM)

It is hoped that this pilot attempt along with other studies based on these same data will encourage further phases of the NOBELS Project. (Author)

U.S. Department of Education (ED) activities relating to the utility of Title I evaluations are discussed within the context of an overview of the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System (TIERS) and a history of Title I evaluations. Implications for Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981 are considered. (LC)

The authors argue that self-report measures and transcriptions of conversations are ineffective means of gathering data about self-disclosure. Influenced by Kenneth Burke and Hugh Duncan, they illustrate--with a discussion of Shakespeare's character of Richard III--the advantages of using soliloquies as examples of self-disclosure. (PD)

The Special Education Management System (SEMS) is a microcomputer program designed to collect data relevant to implementation of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and other related educational laws and regulations. (For related articles, see EC 142 959-961.) (Author)

This article explains a performance-oriented approach to outlining technical training needs. The performance improvement cycle is discussed and the three main activities in that cycle are described. They include need detection, task identification, and collection of task performance data. (CT)

A critical guide is offered regarding ethnographic evaluation data: the analytical descriptions or reconstructions of intact cultural scenes and groups which delineate the shared beliefs, practices, artifacts, folk knowledge, and behaviors of some group of people. (PN)

Populations where free access is denied pose special problems to the survey researcher. In attempting to make general estimates of the size of the composition of the audience in the USSR to Western radio broadcasts, a simulation technique (Mostellerization) has been developed which provides estimates of underlying data from aggregate results. (PD)