Students (N=35) in a graduate rehabilitation counseling curriculum who opted to take a program in altered awareness and subjective states of experience described themselves initially as more tentative, impulsive, and imaginative on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire than another group of students (N=35) who elected not to participate.…

This study obtained a tentative assessment of the impact on college students of being involved in a decision-making process. Tentative findings indicate a positive relationship between involvement in the decision making process and opportunities to participate and knowledge of the decision-making process. (Author)

Research was conducted to develop an interest inventory corresponding to the interest areas in Volume II of the fourth edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. An inventory of 307 occupational activity items was developed and administered to a sample of 1,115 individuals in a selected number of states. (Author)

This study is one segment of a research project to examine work attitudes and work experience of school personnel and their implications for career education. This article deals with the work-experience portion of that project. Most work experience recorded was temporary and usually in a low-level or menial category. (Author)

Describes an interdisciplinary, seven-week research project for sophomores at Boston University's College of Basic Studies. (DD)

A study involving 32 mother-child (age 3.5 to 6.5 years) pairs was conducted to determine the effect of an explanation prior to or after time-out on child compliance and on child disruptive behavior during time-out and to determine the effect of brief parent training in time-out on child and parent behaviors. (Author/SBH)

Describes a research project where students use a wide variety of resources including the Internet to find information for their presentations on epidemiology. Highlights a few web sites that students have found particularly useful and interesting. (JRH)

Describes a project launched by graduate student volunteers of Let's Talk Science at the University of Western Ontario that introduces senior high school students to research presentations given by undergraduate physiology students. (Author/AIM)

Presents a research grid to help students develop a system for taking and organizing notes on their research projects. The grid allows them to see at a glance what information they have so far and what areas they still need to cover. A reproducible copy of the grid is included. (SM)

Reviews the literature of the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and describes its relevance to Information Studies (IS). Workplace studies, key themes, the use of STS in IS research, and implications of STS for IS are also covered. (Contains 194 references.) (MES)

This article describes converging nationwide changes in the postsecondary education of students with hearing loss during the past 30 years that have led to the drafting of a National Research Agenda. The framework of the agenda is explained, as are its expected goals, criteria for research projects, benefits, and outcomes. (Contains references.)…

Summarizes the development of information retrieval evaluation ideas, describes the design of the TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) experiments, and discusses the Okapi team's participation in TREC. Highlights include the Cranfield projects that tested the principles of information retrieval system design, test collections, weighting functions,…

Reviews the state of the art in performance measures and assessment processes in program evaluation before the passage of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and discusses difficulties in fitting these practices into the GPRA format. Presents a simple logic model for evaluating research programs. (SLD)