Fifty-five vocational educators participated in the 18th Annual Southern Research Conference in Agricultural Education at Louisiana State University. Presentations included in the document are: (1) "The Research Problem in Agricultural Education" by L. L. Pesson, (2) views on organizing a vocational agricultural education department for effective research by C. L. Mondart, James F. Shill, and Earl T. Carpenter, (3) "The Function of the R.C.U.--Relationship to Teacher Education Institutions, State Departments of Education and Local School Systems" by W. W. Stevenson, (5) "Research Strategies for the Seventies" by J. K. Coster and J. K. Dane, (6) "A Research Report--Texas" by Earl Webb, (7) "The Center for Research and Leadership Development for Vocational and Technical Education" by Roy Butler, (8) "The Construction of Standardized Achievement Tests for Off-Farm Agricultural Occupations" by J. Alex Hash, (9) "The Influence of Selected Family and School Related Factors on the Educational and Occupational Levels of High School Boys and Girls" by C. M. Curtis, (10) "Working with Local Systems in Implementing Research" by William C. Boykin, and (11) "Arkansas Vocational Education Evaluation Project" by Robert E. Norton. (GB)