The Cooperative Institutional Research Program, the largest ongoing study of higher education in the United States, is discussed in terms of its conceptual framework, technical aspects of data collection, and uses of the data in research and national policymaking. (Author/MSE)

Reviews the environmental research of the California Institute of Technology. Caltech's environmental quality laboratory brings together scientists, engineers, and economists to tackle interdisciplinary problems that have implications for public policy. (Author/CO)

Examines the research participation system in college and university psychology departments. Students in an elementary psychology course were surveyed regarding their opinion of the educational value of participating in a psychology experiment. Nearly all subjects reported positive feelings about their participation. (DB)

Because of the growing significance of R&D expenditures, the importance of some rational approach to planning and budgeting is seen as being imperative. It is proposed that more studies on the question of project cost and duration estimates be conducted. A bibliographical survey is included. (MLW)

With modern agriculture, the growing, processing, packaging, and distribution of food fit well into an industrial arts curriculum. Many areas of this system need closer attention: the high cost of energy in food production, the problems of land preparation, fertilizers, irrigation, food processing, and agriculture in an industrial arts curriculum.…

The use of anabolic agents in meat-producing animals is reviewed. The mode of action, potential hazards, and therapeutic uses are discussed. (BB)

Five educational groups, ranging from high school freshmen to college juniors, were administered the Career Decision Questionnaire, a scale designed to measure antecedents of educational-vocational indecision. It was determined that age was an extremely important factor in career decidedness. Sex was not an important variable in determining…

Offers a method of determining appropriate grade level placement of drug education in the school curriculum; describes the nature and extent of drug use among high school students and identifies variables which predict drug use. Freshman use was lowest; sophomore use increased by 72 percent in this sample of students. (Author/BEF)

Found that American Indian youths tend to experience more serious consequences of drinking than do White youths from the same area with regard to feeling high, getting drunk, passing out, suffering loss of memory, being stopped by police, having automobile accidents, and getting into trouble with parents. (Author/BEF)

Evaluates a specific college drug education course three to eight years later by surveying its educator-participants. The questionnaire is included. Ex-students maintain considerable concern about misuse of all drugs and feel the syllabus was reasonably successful, although topics could be added. (Author/BEF)

A pre-post-test and a Solomon Three Group Design were used to assess the cigarette smoking attitudes of lower socioeconomic sixth grade students after exposure to a special health program. Students in this program developed more positive attitudes toward not smoking. Authors recommend further studies and implementation of special health programs.…

Studies attitudes toward childlessness using questions commissioned on a Gallup survey of voting-age adults in 1977. They regard offspring as socially instrumental. Nonparenthood is a disadvantaged status. Men regard childlessness as disadvantageous significantly more often than women. Less advantaged groups regard reproduction as a social…

Examines the relationship between voluntary childlessness and marital adjustment. Voluntarily childless wives were precision-matched with mothers on education, religion, and participation in the labor force. There was a positive relationship between childlessness and enhanced marital adjustment and satisfaction. The small difference was related to…

Examines the extent to which spouse's level of education hinders or helps the careers of Ph.D. recipients. Findings indicate that having a Ph.D. spouse negatively affected wives' labor-force participation and husbands' offices held and articles published. Marriage to a highly educated spouse has at least some negative career effects. (Author)

Describes a university undergraduate course in community studies which was taught through an historical, geographical, and sociological approach using primary sources and research techniques. (KC)