The Austin Independent School District (AISD) Office of Research and Development, presents abstracts of research projects conducted by external agencies or individuals within AISD. For 33 projects, this report contains the AISD project number, project title, project director, project sponsor, schools where conducted, and whether or not a full…

A study is proposed that seeks to use the normally problematic factor of non-response to a survey in a positive way in order to estimate certain characteristics of a population subgroup. A longitudinal database, the Scientific and Technical Personnel Data System (STPDS) measures the educational, demographic, and employment characteristics of the…

This study investigates educational research and development productivity in teacher education among colleges and universities in the United States. For the purpose of this inquiry, productivity was based on contributions to the annual meetings of the Association of Teacher Educators, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and…

Counseling response preferences of graduate students completing internship requirements were assessed. It was hypothesized that at the end of the internship the students would show a significant increase in preference for active counseling responses. Five counseling responses were evaluated, and change did occur as hypothesized. (Author)

Reports results of whether microtraining was more effective than reflective listening in teaching attending behavior skills to introductory counseling students. Found no significant differences between the two techniques; however, reflective listening was viewed as a much simpler procedure. (PC)

The possibility that significant differences exist between college student subgroups, as measured by the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI), was tested with 99 university students and was supported. Intellectual disposition variables consistently yielded significant differences among subgroups. (Author)

This paper reviews the finding of previous research on premarital sexual behavior of the college female and reports the findings of a recent study done by the writers on changing sex standards on the college campus. (Author/PC)

This article presents a psychological definition of values and defines ways of measuring them. It also reports results of a study dealing with the evolution of educational values of different groups of students, and high school and college levels (N=400), and a comparison between the students' values and those of a group of teachers. (Author)

Illustrates how a counselor in his teacher-consultation role was able to model in the classroom the use of encouragement methods to improve the achievement and attending behavior of a seventh grade student. The author describes the specific procedures which were used and provides data to evaluate the result. (Author)

Three studies explored some of the dimensions of the present crisis facing the Catholic church. A scale was developed to assess the liberal-conservative nature of this conflict. Liberal religious attitudes were associated with degree and amount of liberal religious education and with achievement, motivation, and intelligence within a liberal…

Some research suggests that improvement in psychotherapy is related to the degree that a patient adopts his therapist's evaluative attitudes. This article was designed to pursue the possibility of predicting the outcomes of group psychotherapy using attitude theory. (Author)

Three classes of baccalaureate nursing students were administered the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values as part of a longitudinal study, the four times during their three year course of study. The results indicate a decline in Religious Value and an increase in Aesthetic Value. (Author/EK)

The conditions under which college students indicated that the employment of violence would be justified were assessed in open-ended questionnaire. Students were most prone to justify violence against strangers while most reluctant to justify violence against policemen. Responses justifying violence were more common when referring to nonpolitical…

This study represents an attempt to examine ways in which anxiety, achievement and affiliation motivation and dogmatism influence the academic performance of undergraduates under structured instructional conditions. The study provides strong supporting evidence for the notion that personality patterns do influence academic achievement under the…

The essential components of self-paced systems are frequently prohibitive in cost for implementation for all students. Selection of students who can profit most from individualized programs can be made by choosing students in upper and lower extremes in mental ability who possess certain elements in their cognitive styles. (Author)