The eight projects of the 1971-1972 operations of the Institute are described in this first annual report. Scientists from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska have designed and developed each project, working on a performance contract basis to facilitate and improve the quality of the application of educational technology. Each project is…

This publication contains a listing of the exemplary projects supported during the years 1970 through 1972 in each State through grants and contracts funded under a section of the 1968 Vocational Education Amendments. Arranged alphabetically by States, the listing gives the title of each project, as well as the name of the recipient and the…

The purpose of this research study was to determine the need/demand totals and characteristics concerning health personnel for Green Bay and eastern Wisconsin; and to stimulate an effective, efficient approach to the problem of supplying and organizing such health personnel. A delineation of the population served by health personnel in the Green…

The study was designed to develop and validate a set of measures that might be useful in predicting "success" in orthotic and prosthetic educational programs. Two hundred and eleven entering students from four institutions were administered the screening battery. The institutions were: Cerritos College, New York University, Northwestern…

This paper is essentially an interpretive review of the literature on accountability as related to instructional programs in higher education. It is directed toward academic administrators, although others in higher education may find it useful. Accountability was treated as an essential set of transactions present in every relationship involving…

The four colleges participating in the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley initiated a project to stimulate the involvement of their faculty in the development of research, development, and evaluation projects on a scale comparable to that at larger institutions. The specific objectives were as follows: a) to organize and implement…

This document reports a study of the financial viability of private institutions of higher education in Maryland. Study findings indicated that the present level and form of State assistance is not adequate in terms of the private institution's needs and that both should be altered. Also an ongoing aid program should be developed which might more…

Research conducted by the British Broadcasting Company on the incidence of violence on television and its impact upon society revealed that an objective analysis of program content by trained observers showed a considerable measure of violence, amounting to an average of a violent sequence every half hour. It also showed, however, that most…

This study, commissioned by the New York Board of Regents, concerns the evaluation of doctoral programs. Part one discusses critical problems in the assessment of excellence. Part two reviews a catalog of criteria and assessment techniques. Emphasis is placed on reputational studies, objective indicators of excellence, efficiency as an index of…

This study sought to probe the contention that curricular specialization in higher education produces a polarization between the scientific and humanistic cultures. Two randomly selected panels of men enrolled at 25 universities were identified from student directories, and followed by mail surveys during three successive summers. Results were…

This study investigates job mobility of men and women psychologists in the southeast. The sample consisted of 300 male and female regular members of the Southeastern Psychological Association whose names were taken from the 1972 membership list. Each person in the sample was sent a one-page questionnaire which asked for the date of their doctorate…

This document is a general presentation of the problems involved in obtaining student evaluation of university teaching, and of the types of decisions that must be made by those setting up the evaluation process. The presentation is illustrated by a description of the questionnaires and data processing methods employed in PATS (The Physics and…

This paper presents an analysis of factors related to student absenteeism. Absenteeism, long utilized in industrial and business settings as an indicator of employee adjustment and satisfaction, is suggested as a similar indicator in studying the school as an organization. Characteristics of absence as a variable are explored. The influences of…

This annual report summarizes all Manpower Administration-sponsored research projects active or funded during fiscal year 1970 and lists all reports completed since the research program was begun in fiscal year 1963. Guidelines are included for submission of research proposals for research contracts, dissertation grants, and research project…

This study compared various instructional practices and problems in open plan classrooms with practices and problems in conventional plan school buildings. One secondary and three elementary schools having open plan classrooms were each paired with a comparable school having conventional classrooms. Instruments were used to record: teaching…