The relationship between life satisfaction and voluntary association membership is passing through its descriptive phases and is now being examined in depth. As part of a three-year longitudinal study to evaluate a Title VII program, this data reports on an analysis of life satisfaction, voluntary association membership, health status, and SES…

This paper explores the relationships among ethnicity, age and inherent social dilemmas. The study examines selected dependent variables (economic and health indicators, social interaction, and life satisfaction items) in an effort to determine the extent to which different configurations of age, ethnicity and socioeconomic status produce varying…

The Future Farmers of America (FFA) Achievement Award Program is designed to increase the involvement of all students of vocational agriculture in the activities of the Future Farmers of America by offering a realistically attainable level of recognition and motivation for each student. The certificate is awarded to students having satisfactorily…

An attempt was made in 1974 to locate a group of boys originally studied in 1969 when they were ninth graders in the Fort Wayne, Indiana public schools. In 1974, information about high school academic performance was obtained for over 90 percent and educational attainment data were obtained for about 80 percent of the sample. Information obtained…

This report describes the methods and instruments used by the New York City Infant Day Care Study to measure: (1) the functional status of infant day care families over time and (2) the relationship of those families to existing infant day care programs and to their communities. Background information on the development and theoretical basis of…

This study examined the stability and across time changes on mean scores on eight educational outcomes including cognitive and non-cognitive areas as measured by the Pennsylvania Grade 5 Educational Quality Assessment Inventory. Data, collected on children tested as fifth graders in 1969 and retested in 1971 and 1973, are presented separately for…

Using data sets from several American and British studies, this study compares the process of status attainment in the U.S. and Great Britain. The overall social mobility from generation to generation is very similar in both countries, as are the relative effects of social origin and individual ability on educational attainment and social status.…

This report, the first of several to be published on the results of the 1972-73 assessment of mathematics, begins with a brief general discussion of the project. The findings with respect to pure computation and computation with translation are then presented in some detail. Data collected from subjects at four age levels (9, 13, 17, and adult)…

The 66 annotations given in this bibliography are from status projection literature resulting from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Regional Research Project S-61 "Development of Human Resource Potentials and Mobility in the Rural South" completed by the summer of 1971. Most of the studies reported conform to the following…

Findings in industrialized countries, such as those of Jencks and Coleman, indicate that socioeconomic status has a strong influence on academic achievement and that school effects are of lesser importance. This study of socioeconomic influences and school influences on the performance of 23,615 Ugandan children taking the Primary Leaving…

In contrast to previous research, this study assumes a range of aspirations for individuals, rather than a single level. The basic hypothesis is that social class is related to the width of the range; that is, the lower the social class level the wider the range of aspiration. Interviews were conducted with parents of 255 Negro kindergarten and…

This paper describes an approach to school district planning that examines overall objectives, ongoing operations, values, performance criteria, performance outcomes, and costs. The method utilizes seven general data files to assess school district activities in terms of educational and economic criteria. These files consist of: three structural…

The author of this book summarizes his philosophy of teacher education in four chapters. The first chapter, "Some Problems of Teacher Education," discusses the difficulties teacher training institutions have in implementing their new ideas in the schools, and attributes the difficulty to the middle class values and clannishness of teachers, which…

Three different approaches to the creation of popularity indices from sociometric data are described. One involves a factor analysis of the sociometric matrix and the other two are different approaches to the weighting of sociometric choices. All turn out to have the same mathematical solution when the relationships are symmetric; it is certain…

A study undertaken among commercial strawberry growers in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, sought to define the network of personal contacts as used by the farmers in obtaining information relevant to growing practices. Growers were divided into four adopter categories: laggards, late majority, early majority, and innovator-early…