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Download full textAhlschwede, Margrethe P. – 1970
Conducted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this study investigated whether low income Negro homemakers would be more receptive to an information bulletin that reflects their way of life than to a bulletin that did not. Subjects (16 in the first phase and 29 in the second phase of the bulletin pretest) marked the booklet ("Moving to the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Blacks, Bulletins
Peer reviewedTrent, Curtis; Kinlaw, Rachel – Journal of Extension, 1979
Stating that comic books are an effective way to present instructional materials, the authors sent food and nutrition subject matter using characters in a daytime television serial in a set of comic books to a sample of extension homemakers. Survey results and implications for extension education are discussed. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comics (Publications), Extension Education, Foods Instruction
Brown, Minnie Miller; And Others – 1964
This statewide study of the home demonstration program in nine representative counties was designed to determine home economics extension program needs, to discover the degree of participation, and to locate people who might profit from the program. Personal interviews were conducted with 498 home demonstration club members and 572 nonmembers.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Black Mothers, Blacks, Clubs
Dixon, Lois Claudine; And Others – 1973
A study was conducted to investigate certain characteristics of respondents who renovated furniture during a Washington County educational television 19-program series on chair renovation, who had previously renovated furniture, and who planned to renovate a chair following the series, and to compare them with those respondents who had not. Data…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Educational Television, Extension Education, Furniture
Stroud, Maidred Morris – 1968
This study sought to determine the stage (awareness, interest, evaluation, trial, or adoption) reached by homemakers in adopting the water blanching of vegetables for freezing; to identify information sources (mass media, agencies, experts, informal personal contacts, and organizations); and to assess the relationship of certain personal, social,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Cooking Instruction
McCann, Glenn C. – 1961
The purposes of this 1961 study were to identify attitudes and goals of farm people in low income areas and to relate these factors and selected social and personal factors to patterns of adjustment to economic and situational conditions. The sample for the study consisted of 296 farm families in Watauga County, North Carolina. Results of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Educational Background, Family Characteristics
North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges, Raleigh. – 1989
This performance report, required by federal regulations, indicates the level of achievement of the goals and objectives in the FY 1988-90 State Plan for Vocational Education in North Carolina. The first section of the report covers secondary education. Part 1 describes accomplishments in providing programs, services, and activities for special…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Community Services
