THE WASHINGTON RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT (RCU), ORGANIZED IN THE WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ON JUNE 1, 1965, AIMED TO INITIATE, COORDINATE, AND RELATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, ACTIVITIES, AND INFORMATION TO MEET THE VOCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE STATE'S YOUTH. MAJOR PROJECTS CARRIED OUT UNDER CONTRACT BETWEEN THE RCU AND…

THE PROJECT METHOD OF FUNDING RESEARCH PLACES IMPORTANCE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SUCH RESEARCH IN BOTH PLANNING AND OPERATIONAL STAGES. TYPICAL RESEARCH PROPOSALS DO NOT DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH THE SCHEDULE TO BE MAINTAINED, THE COMPLEX OF INTERRELATED ACTIVITIES, THE NATURE OF THE TASKS TO BE PERFORMED, OR THE TIME AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO DO THE TASK.…

THE SIXTH-QUARTER ACTIVITIES OF THE WYOMING RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT ARE REPORTED AS COMPLETED, PROJECTS UNDERWAY, AND PROPOSED. SIX COMPLETED PROJECTS INCLUDED A NATIONAL SURVEY OF TRAVEL REGULATIONS GOVERNING STATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS, A STUDY OF THE REASONS FOR PRACTICAL NURSING STUDENTS DISCONTINUING THEIR TRAINING AT THE…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE FOLLOWING FOUR FACTORS, SIMULTANEOUSLY AND SEPARATELY, AFFECT THE RATES OF CHEATING AMONG 10TH GRADE STUDENTS--(1) INDIVIDUAL ROLE ADAPTATIONS, (2) PEER GROUP INFLUENCE, (3) SOCIAL CONTEXT, AND (4) FAMILY INFLUENCE. A PARADIGM (MERTON'S) THAT RELATES INDIVIDUAL ANOMIA, SOCIAL…

The third appendix to "Research and Development in Vocational and Technical Education for Non-Metropolitan Areas" (VT 007 214) contains four major subdivisions: (1) a survey of projects funded by the U.S. Office of Education during 1965 and 1966, (2) a selected bibliography of books listing 329 references on occupational training and career…

"Micro-counseling" is a video method of training counselors in basic skills of counseling within a short period of time. This research studies the effects of micro-counseling training procedures upon three groups of beginning counselors. These three different skills, attending behavior, reflection of feeling, and summarization of…

This catalog describes the status and content of research programs which were either developed or administered by the Office of Manpower Research under Title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) or the Economic Opportunity Act for the fiscal year ending June 1968. Brief summaries are given for 71 active MDTA research contracts,…

The 66 studies in agricultural education completed in the American Vocational Association Central Region during 1967-68 are included in this annotated bibliography. The abstracts are organized according to the study's purpose, method, and findings. Included are masters studies, staff studies, and doctoral dissertations. The 70 studies in progress…

Abstracts of 54 studies in agricultural education completed in the American Vocational Association Southern Region in the years 1967-68 are included in this mimeographed document. Represented are staff studies, doctoral dissertations and masters theses. The individual abstracts include the purpose, method, and findings of the study. (DM)

The 58 research studies in agricultural education completed in 1967-68 in the North Atlantic Region of the American Vocational Association are abstracted in this mimeographed document. Each abstract contains the research study's purpose, method, and major findings. Masters theses, staff studies, and doctoral dissertations are included. (DM)

The National Institute of Mental Health is continuing support of several studies designed to measure trends in the use of hallucinogens. Indications are that the evidence for persisting psychological and birth defect damage from chronic LSD use is minimal. Though they are a continuing problem, admissions to psychiatric units of persons with "bad…

This final report is a brief outline of Phase One in the preparation of a comprehensive reference grammar of Tamil, based on the results of recent linguistic theory and analytic techniques, and designed to be "accessible" to any student of Tamil. The studies which have resulted from Phase One are "strictly preliminary" to a larger study of the…

This research was based on a counseling model of prevention through attempts to influence the behaviors of significant adults. Group counseling was offered to parents of first-, seventh-, and ninth-grade children during the first year of the project. During the second year group meetings for teachers were conducted. Previous monographs have…

This volume has four major sections: (1) Abstracts of instructional and research materials, which present information about authors, titles, availability, and content of documents; (2) subject index, (3) author index, which helps locate relevant documents by author/institution names, and (4) projects in progress, which announces in-progress…

This study tests the hypothesis that persons will express relatively independent degrees of preference for ambiguity in different experiential domains. An original measure consisting of four subscales was developed to assess individual differences in the theoretical, social, economic and aesthetic domains, and was administered to a student sample.…