A study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examined problems surrounding the socioeconomic and cultural status of the Sioux on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations. Study of economic status revealed the similarity of Indian problems to those faced by emerging underdeveloped colonial or ex-colonial peoples around the…

Subjects were 44 males and 44 females. They were presented with a photograph showing a female with either an attractive or an unattractive male and with background information concerning the status of the male, (medical student or sales clerk). After receiving the information, subjects evaluated the female. Results revealed strong effects for…

This report presents the childbearing experience and fertility expectations of American women based on data collected in the June, 1976, Current Population Survey. Survey findings include the birth expectations of young single women who, as they marry, will contribute a major portion of the births in the United States within a few years. An…

The Interstate Association of Commissions on the Status of Women has prepared this revised "Handbook for Commissions on the Status of Women" as a service to the growing number of Commissions across the country. Because both government and citizen groups are increasingly aware of the problems women face and are addressing them with new…

This progress report on the status of women presents: (1) the general background including structure (state, local, regional, and national), membership composition, and funding methods of such commissions; (2) general and special (Equal Rights Amendment, International Women's Year) program activities; and (3) lists of currently active state and…

The main and interactive effects of classroom openness on the achievement and creativity of 103 third graders and 97 fourth graders were assessed by multiple regression analyses. After controlling for student IQ, socioeconomic status, sex, age, anxiety and "family openness," classroom openness was found to be negatively related to achievement and…

Following an exhaustive review of the literature, over 60 items relevant to the relationship between authoritarianism and prejudice were identified. They include such "fugitive" items as conference papers and master's theses. This paper reviews the findings of these studies regarding prejudice. It concludes that, while some writers have stressed…

Investigations about attitudes toward mathematics carried out in the past decade were revised. The instruments used to measure attitudes toward mathematics were analysed as well as the attitudes toward different aspects of mathematics, their relation with other school subjects and their stability through time. Opinions about the influence of…

This annotated bibliography contains evaluations of selected source materials in ethnic studies for teachers and students. It is divided into Multi-Ethnic Resources, Italian-American Resources, Polish-American and Slavic-American Resources, German-American Resources, and Norwegian- and Swedish-American Resources. At the end of every annotated…

In order to measure the importance of financial assistance to part-time students and develop a profile of part-time students at Worthington Community College (WCC), a questionnaire was designed and mailed to each of the 255 persons who had enrolled at WCC as part-time students during the 1974-75 college year. Although the response rate was low…

In response to the current shortage of rural physicians and the difficulties encountered in studying this problem, this paper attempts to apply a specific multivariate technique (path analysis) and the socioeconomic careers model of Featherman and others to the study of the physician's choice of practice location. The socioeconomic careers model…

False recognition responses of high and low SES kindergarten subjects to associatively and acoustically related words were measured. Acoustic attribute dominance for all subjects, and relatively greater acoustic attribute dominance for low SES subjects was predicted. Results indicated that subjects encoded on both attribute dimensions, with low…

This study examined the effect of the amount of time preschool children spend in preschool programs on the development of their self-concept. The preschool-aged subjects were from three groups: (1) 46 children with no preschool experience, but whose parents were "highly motivated to provide for their welfare;" (2) 177 children attending…

Data derived from the Southern Youth Study (a randomly stratified sample of 250 black and 409 white males from Southern rural counties with lower than average annual incomes) were utilized to analyze veteran status as a determinant of occupational and educational attainment via the interaction effects between race, veteran status, and residential…

The purposes of work measurements are to provide an economic indicator for developing counter cyclical fiscal and monetary policy, and to facilitate the development and implementation of more full employment measures. This report presents five part recommendations or guidelines that would improve the use of labor statistics as a vital tool for…