The paper briefly outlines the current status of adult education literature, shows some trends, indicates what is needed, and offers some suggestions on how to meet these needs. The current literature in the field falls into three general categories: published books and pamphlets, fugitive documents, and periodicals. Based on a study of documents…

The article suggests that many uncertainties exist with regard to the use of the "mega-hallucinogen" STP. Discussion centers on the history, chemistry, and pharmacology of the drug and its patterns of use. The subjective effects on humans as well as on animals is reviewed. Psychological and physiological effects of STP continue to be researched,…

This document praises the Comprehensive Preschool Education and Child Day-Care Act and advocates an equally comprehensive collateral program of research and evaluation. In order to avoid delay in starting preschool and child care programs, the research undertaken should be of the kind called evaluative research in which program and research are in…

This document enumerates and discusses needs for community service and continuing education programs in the state of Tennessee. Its contents are based on the Statewide Report drawn up by the State Agency for Title I in Tennessee, and on responses to 800 questionnaires mailed to recipients of the Report requesting the identification of other…

This paper provides an overview of recent development in the teaching and study of the uncommonly taught languages and attempts to provide a rationale for a continuing interest in the field. General trends are noted and important recent publications are mentioned. The types of pedagogical materials being developed and their relative value is also…

This report analyzes the nonverbal performance of 100 children (3 1/2-4 1/2 year old) on tasks of discontinuous quantity. The children are part of a larger group of subjects participating in a longitudinal study of educational and social programs for disadvantaged children currently being conducted by the Educational Testing Service. The purposes…

The bibliography lists materials dealing with the communicative behavior (speech, hearing, language) of the mentally retarded. Each entry is classified according to one or more of the following categories: speech and language behavior; assessment of speech and language; hearing (assessment, problems, rehabilitation, research); habilitation…

Earlier research has demonstrated that verbal teaching behaviors can be modified through the Teaching Laboratory (TL), which consists of peer group microteaching experiences. This study investigated whether or not these behaviors would persist into later student teaching. Each of 50 secondary student teachers, who were divided into control and…

The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework to describe and account for dynamic properties of status projection phenomena. The effort is limited in the main to consideration of occupational and educational status projections, and emphasis is given to the particular characteristics and attributes of the rural social milieu…

This paper begins with a discussion of the assumptions basic to the study of both language and social dialects: verbal systems are arbitrary, all languages or dialects are adequate as communicative systems, they are systematic and ordered and learned in the context of the community. A survey of current work and findings in dialect studies follows.…

Only as psychologists participate in all aspects of teacher-training programs can a laboratory be created to test how psychological ideas are translated into teaching actions. Psychologists have information, ways of thinking, and ways of attacking problems that will improve teaching, but that information has to be learned to be used by the…

The Utah Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) was established to conduct and supervise vocational research, develop research competency in the State, disseminate vocation research information, and provide help in preparing research proposals. The research needs of Utah were established by workshop and teacher briefings and interviews with district and…

The projection of space needs for research is a function of--(1) graduate student enrollment, (2) the particular academic discipline, and (3) the level of research activity. It is proposed that the full time equivalent graduate student population be used as being representative of the overall requirements, with some exceptions. A later paper,…

Retrospective searches provided by a NASA Regional Dissemination Center (RDC) were found to be of substantial value to researchers during a six-month experimental period at the University of Denver's Research Institute (DRI). The purpose of the experiment was to gain a better understanding of the usefulness of an RDC to a user organization. DRI…

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a Federal agency started in August 1972, is concerned primarily with educational research and development. Before NIE was actually established, a Planning Unit within the U.S. Office of Education generated many papers on what the objectives, activities, and organizational structure of NIE should be. This…