This third document in a three-volume summative evaluation report submitted to the National Institute of Education presents a portion of the internal evaluation conducted by the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state region. (The three-volume report presents both an overview of the evaluation design and results and a component analysis as well.) This document includes summary research reports in the following areas: psychological characteristics of entering students, program effects and developmental influences, impact on parenting attitudes, criterion validity of the Child Raising Opinion Questionnaire, and factor validity of the Child Raising Opinion Questionnaire. (The other two documents comprising the summative evaluation report are available as CE 014 682 and CE 014 683.) (BM)