An evaluation of extension education at Haile Sellassie University is presented. It includes the following focal points: (1) extension development, (2) present extension services, (3) the need for a new concept of university extension, (4) extension in a developing country, (5) recommendations, and (6) future research. (CK)

This paper proposes the idea that dissertations may be used as data in a model for analyzing the research aspects of the graduate program. The model simply states that characteristics of dissertation research provide estimates of research patterns and training in the college of education. The data from such an analysis can show the professional…

When judiciously interpreted, the findings of the Report to the Surgeon General on Television and Social Behavior cannot support any conclusion other than that televised violence is a cause of aggressiveness in children and young people. Given this interpretation, policy guidance research into the effects of television on society should include…

Discusses the formation of the Committee on Mass Communication and Political Behavior by the Social Science Research Council in 1974. Describes the committee's proposal to alleviate the need for broad-gaged coordinated studies covering the entire process and range of the media-political spectrum. (MH)

Expands Elihu Katz's proposals for social research on broadcasting with suggestions for "decentering" the media, studying the effects of society on the media, and looking at what researchers do to, for, and against television and its viewers. (JMF)

Predicts that the use of simulation games will again pick up momentum and will earn deserved recognition as an instructional technique. This is because it has come to be evaluated in appropriate ways and because it is linked directly to computers, and more specifically, microcomputers. (VT)

This paper examines one conception of the competent student, discusses some of its features, and highlights research possibilities. (Author/AM)

The photoelectronic image is in urgent need of comprehensive study as a possible evolutionary phenomenon reflecting and shaping the mental and physical development of people all over the world. Researchers with non-traditional backgrounds may be necessary to achieve this goal. (Author/STS)

A 1976 conference on "The Arts and Aesthetics: An Agenda for the Future" examined the progress of arts activity since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and charted an agenda for research in eight primary areas. (MJB)

Replication studies and studies involving personal values are identified as research needs in the fields of physical education, health education, and athletics. (GW)

Three basic assumptions underlying learning disabilities (such as the belief that it is a condition which can be defined, identified and remediated) are critically reviewed. (CL)

Examines the concept of intrapersonal communication in order to illustrate the tendency and the error of ignoring the sociality of communication. (MH)

Contends that the transmission model of communication currently used by business communication teachers is too narrow and mechanistic in concept and suggests the need for a new model that is more descriptive of the communication process. (MH)