This study determined the reasons that students who were classified as sophomores and juniors in the spring 1972 semester failed to return to Indiana University at South Bend for the fall 1973 semester. A review of the literature and a survey adapted from one used by Grossman College indicates: (1) Recreational facilities and vocational and…

This inquiry ascertained those environmental and personal variables that best predict publication output of liberal arts faculty in four-year and graduate insitutions. Data came from 7,484 faculty randomly selected on a national basis. Multiple Classification Analysis was used for hypothesis testing. Personal interest in research, frequent…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the magnitude of individual differences in time-to-criterion and the stability of these differences. Time-to-criterion was defined in two ways: the amount of elapsed time required to attain the criterion level and the amount of on-task time required to attain the criterion level. Ninety students were…

Subjects, differing in imagery ability, learned a list of paired associates with the presence of a verbal context related to the stimulus item, with a pictorial context related to the stimulus item, or without the presence of any context. Following testing for recall, the subjects were required to learn one of two transfer lists. Both lists were…

In 20 groups of secondary teaching majors discussing a school-related problem, male subjects dominated the decision-making process, initiating more verbal acts, exerting more influence, and displaying an interaction style different from that of the females. It is concluded that mixed-sex teacher groups are likely to develop status orderings based…

This study examines four hypotheses concerning the nature of fear of success (FOS). Data were gathered in two stages. First, respondents in a large sample survey of metropolitan Detroit area residents were asked to tell a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) story. In the second stage, white currently-married females aged 18 to 56 whose households…

The purpose of this study was to examine differences among reflective, impulsive, fast-accurate, and slow-inaccurate fourth-grade children who were either in the high or low socioeconomic status (SES) category. The subjects were 180 fourth-grade children who were administered eight different tests during the mid-point of the school year. It was…

Sixty kindergarten, 60 second-grade, and 60 fourth-grade students performed several memory tasks under one of six conditions. The conditions differed as to the method of presentation of information. The study was focused on developmental changes in children's use of verbal, nonverbal, and spatial-positional cues for memory. The results, in…

The purpose of this study was to estimate, empirically, the quality of published experimental research in the fields of counseling and counselor education and to determine whether there has been an improvement over time of that quality. The sample of 152 studies was randomly chosen from the experimental studies published from 1962 through 1973 in…

The endeavor described in this report was designed to fill the need of providing accurate, comprehensive data on the total number of county graduates by systematizing the process of collecting, organizing, summarizing, and disseminating informational data on the Baltimore County high school graduate. This report is organized into five chapters.…

In order to instill in children the skills which will be basic to their school experience, words implying a process (such as "hemp,""parasite," and "vanilla") may be "researched" by third and fourth graders through the use of a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a supplementary book on the subject, and an interview with an adult. The child makes a…

The convergence technique developed by Carrese and Baker is described, and an application to reading of this research technique is made. The use of the convergence technique includes (1) a planning session which delineates the final goal of the program, the intermediate goals and their sequence for achievement of the final goal, and research and…

The purposes of this bulletin are to summarize selected ESEA Title III projects in elementary school mathematics; to draw implications from them for improving mathematics teaching and learning throughout the nation; and to provide assistance to local elementary school personnel involved in the teaching of elementary school mathematics, state and…

To identify current program characteristics, the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in New York State sent a questionnaire to the administrators of 57 BOCES programs. The questionnaire sought basic enrollment data pertaining to occupational education programs in agriculture, distribution, health, home economics (gainful), office,…

This paper describes the goals, model, programs and organization of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education, which was established in 1967 as the first national research and development program focused on early childhood education. The central goal is the development of specifications for the best learning environments of children…