Describes characteristics of computer assisted educational research (CAER) system. CAER provides a practical and feasible means of automating mundane aspects of educational research, such as selecting a problem, designing the study, and analyzing data providing the researcher time for more rewarding activities. (EK)

Reviews and evaluates the past three attempts at organizing NSF's applied research programs, the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) in 1977, the Applied Science and Research Applications in 1978, and the Engineering and Applied Science Directorate in 1979. Discusses the National Technology Foundation now being proposed. (CS)

Reports on dissertations in progress in theater arts in the United States, classified by subject according to geographical divisions. Classifications include researcher's name, title of the project, institution, academic department, supervisor, and expected date of completion. (JMF)

Reviews programs sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, a private operating foundation, to combat deterioration of library materials. Research grants, assistance to conservation laboratories, and support for new equipment and tests are supplemented by efforts to establish cooperative programs and establish a national strategy for…

Three groups of women--wives with no outside employment, wives employed in non-professional occupations, and wives employed in professional occupations--were administered the Derived Identity Questionnaire and the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The two working groups revealed less "derived identity" than did the non-employed group. (Author)

This analysis tested for the effects of age vs social composition in explaining variation in four attitudinal dependent variables. Using a sample especially drawn to study generational differences, and employing a multivariate statistical model, it was found that age differences were only modestly reduced by social composition variables. (Author)

Variation in temporal experience among the aged has been found to be a function of a number of variables. The sociological and phenomenological literature suggest two as being of crucial importance: work and retirement, and health and illness. These were investigated in this study. (Author)

This article suggests some approaches that the emerging scholar can use in efforts aimed at building a record of scholarly publication. Some of the suggestions include: (1) determining areas of strength; (2) deciding on the project; (3) choosing the appropriate journals; (4) preparing the manuscript; (5) waiting for the results; and (6) accepting…

Findings indicate that it is both feasible and important to draw a distinction between high- and low-risk self-revelation in group psychotherapy. Vulnerability of members appears to be perceived as a function of the amount and quality of their own self-disclosing utterances. Institutionalized patients may be less capable of appropriate…

Studies deception in social psychological research by using group members rather than audience as data-generating subjects. Use of confederates, if chosen with care, does not appear to increase suspicion from group members. The more conspiciously deviant a confederate, the more he is suspected. (Author/BEF)

Results of a self-report questionnaire listing eight job activities showed that staff counselors in colleges and universities across the country spend about half their time in direct counseling services. Respondents use about 90 percent of their time providing direct personal service (method) focused on an individual (target) for either…

Alternative ways of categorizing persons are investigated by a pretest-posttest control group design with ten subjects. Inconsistency in trait combinations during treatment produces more discrimination of others but the effect is limited to constructs directly involved in inconsistency. Alternative ways of categorizing others are also produced by…