A survey was conducted to evaluate tracking procedures used in longitudinal studies. The study grew out of an effort to locate part of a group used in a 1947-57 longitudinal study. A subsample of 320 was chosen from the 2,344 respondents already located. The tracking methods studied were mail, long-distance telephone calls, community visits and…

A study was conducted to examine the structure of leadership and the specific types of leaders as identified by attitudinal characteristics of individuals or groups of leaders. A 7-county development Federation in South-central Montana was studied. A pre-structured interview schedule containing 93 questions was administered to 102 leaders.…

Reported is the third quarter, fiscal year 1974 (March 1, 1974-May 31, 1974) technical progress of Project LIFE (Language Improvement to Facilitate Education), toward developing an instructional system in which filmstrips in the areas of perceptual training, perceptual thinking, and language/reading are used to assist hearing impaired children in…

The activities of the Council for Cultural Co-Operation (CCC) and the Cultural Fund of the Council of Europe during 1973 are described in this annual report. The educational activities are summarized in these areas: organization of education; curricula, content, subjects; training of teachers; educational technology; research cooperation; exchange…

Student governance at El Camino College was studied by means of a review of data related to student characteristics, open hearing with students, a student survey, meetings with members of Student Councils and club representatives, and meetings with the administration and members of the Board of Trustees. These activities showed that there was an…

The report describes the process and content of a cooperative regional approach aimed at introducing environmental education into the Adult Basic Education (ABE) curriculum. Tracing the purposes, planning, development, and design of the conference, the document offers need statements developed to serve as a general guide from which to plan…

A workshop designed to investigate the development of guidelines and recommendations for ways to assist foreign students in the United States to return and fulfill needed roles in their countries of origin was held in October 1974. This report discusses the deliberations and conclusions of discussion groups, combining these with relevant excerpts…

This volume includes materials that clearly indicate the state of the development of the field of higher education. The members of the Association of Professors of Higher Education gathered in their third formal national conference to read and discuss the materials included here. The ideas and information presented in this edited, and relatively…

North Dakota's five-year plan for library improvement, developed under the Library Services and Construction Act, is presented. Included are programs to meet the state's assessed needs for improved library service to specific groups, expanded public library services and construction, and interlibrary cooperation. Ten projects underway for fiscal…

In recognition of the past and potential contributions of American Indian philosophy, this book presents discussions which came out of a week long conference at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Conference participants included Native American elders (representatives from the Navajo, Mohawk, Crow, Kiowa, Pueblo, and Arapaho tribes) and officials of…

The state of the environment and efforts to improve it are reported upon in this Fourth Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality. Broad in scope, the report covers federal and state activities during the past year, the urban environment, economics and environmental management, the law and land use regulation, environmental quality,…

This document reports on a "charrette" held in Phoenix, Arizona aimed at helping community colleges initiate and implement programs and services to solve problems facing women students. A "charrette" is defined as a working conference which includes an intensive effort to complete a project. Teams of one administrator and one faculty member from…

This conference panel report focuses on the identification and validation of essential reading skills and on the organization of those skills into instructional hierarchies. The three approaches to research which the panel recommended are the identification and validation of behaviors essential or supportive to the acquisition of competent reading…

The objectives of this book are to report on current activities in the arts, and to recommend further projects to create a greater public awareness of the arts. The reports are not intended for simple legislative digestion, nor necessarily for executive implementation, but rather are intended to prompt, encourage, and initiate fuller aesthetic…

This report on the operations of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for the 1972-73 period provides descriptions of research activities related to experimental and analytical studies, surveys, curriculum innovations and evaluations, reviews and comparative studies, the (Australian ) Schools Commission, measurement studies, and…