This paper describes the beliefs and values of a pluralistic approach to social change and of four competing approaches: social Darwinism, functionalism, militancy, and conflict theory. Stressing the alienation and dogmatism of the competing approaches, the authors relate each approach to its operation in community action projects. Social…

The Work Group on Behavior Modification in Education, which issued this report, was authorized by Secretary Elliot Richardson on November 21, 1970. The body of this report includes an analysis of the benefits of behavior modification techniques in education, examples of their successful application with a variety of large student populations, an…

This document contains a compilation of research in agricultural education completed during the 1971-72 year. Presented in abstract form, the studies represent the work of persons in ten states of the Southern Region. The abstracts are arranged alphabetically by author and include the purpose, methodology, and findings. Announcements of topics now…

Depressed and nondepressed college students were frustrated in an incentive task utilizing a nonreward technique. Matched controls undertook a similar task in which the frustration condition was absent. Subjects were 127 undergraduate psychology students. Pre- and post-test measures of hostility and depression were obtained. The Beck Depression…

The purpose of the present study was to determine: (1) How much the development of a student's attitude toward life was affected by different aspects of his achievement and family background; and (2) How the part played by these factors compared with that played by different aspects of the school he attended. We constructed an index that reflected…

This study examines the attitude of Jewish adolescents in an American metropolis toward the State of Israel. The study is designed to test two hypotheses: (1) that students who are exposed to a more intensive Jewish education tend to be more aware of Israel than those with a lesser exposure; and (2) that children from homes and/or schools with a…

This brief report summarizes progress to date in a continuing study, now in its sixth year, of Montessori education in Cincinnati. Follow-up tests of Montessori children are focusing on the relation of early performance to grade school achivement four years later. This study represents the first systematic attempt to compare long term effects of…

Eight papers report on the project at Austin State School, funded by a Hospital Improvement (HIP) grant, which used a multidisciplinary team to implement socialization programs for institutionalized mildly retarded persons exhibiting socially inept behavior. Two papers consider social rehabilitation and the task of trying to move residents out…

This inventory of federally supported population research activities for fiscal year 1970 up dates and expands a previous report, The Federal Program in Population Research, which covered projects supported during July 1, 1968 through April 30, 1969. Its purpose is to provide timely and comprehensive information on current population research…

Twelve elementary and eight secondary ungraded schools in various geographical areas of the country were visited and reported upon by members of a selected school system staff. The resulting descriptive analysis established the criteria necessary for the evaluation of ungraded schools. Contained in the research findings are school comparisons and…

In order to study the signal-sight reading learning and the factor structure of intellectual abilities at preliterate moderate and severe levels of mental retardation (IQ 25-55), a test battery of items covering six hypothetical factors was constructed and administered to 80 preliterate mentally retarded subjects. The four factors extracted…

This project report describes the historical research completed for the writing of one of the few single-volume books dealing with modern Serbian history that gives a complete and detailed analytical survey of the past history and its influence on present day Yugoslavia. The two-fold theme of modern Serbian history is: 1) the impact of…

This report summarizes information received from State Research Coordinating Units (RCU's) regarding research activities conducted under Section 131 (b) of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. The purpose of the report is to provide information that will help states to be aware of research and development conducted by other states, thus…

Listed in the annotated bibliography, one of a series of over 50 similar selected bibliographies on exceptional (both handicapped and gifted) children, are 78 references to research dealing with the trainable and custodial mentally retarded. The research treats such subjects as behavior modification, use of reinforcement and operant conditioning,…

Summarized are the results of efforts exerted by the Puerto Rico Research Coordinating Unit to expand the Puerto Rico research capability in vocational education by: (1) identifying relevant legislation and its historical antecedents, (2) identifying the administrative structure responsible for conducting research in occupational education, (3)…