A one-third random sample survey of 1,128 nonteaching, full-time employees (clerical, trades, technical, professional, managerial, and instructional support categories) of the Toronto Metropolitan Board of Education was conducted to determine their degree of interest in part-time work. The analysis, based on questionnaire responses of 458 current…

To investigate developmental differences in timesharing performance, 60 boys, 20 in each of three age groups (7-, 10- and 13-year-olds), performed an auditory matching task and a tracking task alone and concurrently, the latter under two sets of instructions. Decrements produced by concurrent performance were compared for the three age groups.…

What is the relationship between salaries and the functioning of the academic marketplace? Are the salaries of faculty members determined to a substantial degree by market valuation of their skills. The skills market, however, may differ across disciplines and sexes, and therefore the reward for a given skill may differ correspondingly. Findings…

The perceived occupational goal blocks of 614 employed young adults from five Southern States were examined in 1972 and compared with goal deflection data derived from the same sample in 1966. Respondents were asked to rate 10 goal block items on a 1 to 4 scale. These 10 items were ranked according to total scores and percents of possible high…

Children with histories of high and low exposure to television (and the violence therein) were exposed to a moderately violent film. Measures of autonomic response (skin conductance and blood volume pulse amplitude) were taken before and during their exposure to the violent film. Over both measures and in another replicated study, the high TV…

The 1973 broadcasting industry employment report consists of State reports, organized alphabetically according to community or city, from broadcasting stations with more than 10 full-time employees. Information has been compiled from the annual employment profile report (Federal Communications Commission Form 395), required of broadcast licensees.…

The Cub Scout Leader Development Guide is designed to train adult leaders to conduct discussions and set up activities that foster understanding and involvement of the handicapped in den and pack programs. Stressed are development of the handicapped individual's ability and potential as well as similarities between handicapped and nonhandicapped…

This volume examines a number of facets of the labor market experience and behavior of middle-aged men. It is based on a unique set of longitudinal data collected by personal interviews among the same sample of men in 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1971. The data contain a complete record of the labor market activity of the men over a five-year period,…

This progress report summarizes the findings of a second round of interviews with a cohort of young men between 14 and 24 years of age. These 1967 interviews provide data on the magnitude and patterns of changes in educational and employment status during the 12 months following the first round of interviews. The data suggest that family income…

The careers of 799 male and 1,265 female teachers employed in Oregon school districts were traced for 4 years from 1962 to 1966 to determine the teachers' survival rates. The primary method of analysis chosen was an actuarial approach which involves construction of a survival curve showing numbers of teachers surviving after each period of time…

Described here in extensive detail is the second year of a talent development summer high school at Yale University. A compensatory program was provided for 117 underachieving Negro and white boys, judged to have unrealized intellectual potential, who came from both urban and rural areas. The report discusses the students, teachers, tutors, and…

To investigate the effects of goal setting upon the spelling performance of educable mentally retarded male adolescents, comparisons were made between institutionalized and non-institutionalized subjects on the effects of goal setting and of task difficulty upon performance. A pilot study developed appropriate educational tasks for use in later…

The first half century of the Council of the East Midlands District of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) is reviewed, beginning with the early WEA and other antecedent adult programs in the Midlands. The rapid growth in tutorial classes and other liberal studies programs during 1919-29, continued expansion during the years of the…

Relationships were sought between selected background factors and college academic success of 186 male high school graduates of 1957 from five Wisconsin counties who attended college a minimum of one year. Background data came from high school academic records and by five questionnaires administered over a five year period. College academic data…

Statistics on job tenure of American workers are presented which are based on a January, 1973, survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Three tables are presented: length of employment of workers on their current job, by sex; median years on current job, by sex, age, and race; and median years on current job, by occupation, industry, and sex.…