To determine the relationship of dogmatism to job performance and other aspects of a county Extension agent's situation, a study was made of 486 agricultural extension agents and 23 Extension supervisors in five states. Supervisors provided performance ratings, and both groups responded to mailed questionnaires. Personal information (age, tenure,…

The Physical Performance Test for California is a revision of the publication prepared in 1966 by a committee representative of the offices of the county superintendents of schools. The test events which compose the Physical Performance Test were studied, and new norms were established during the 1969-70 school year. This publication contains the…

A study was conducted to identify some of the eating habits and factors influencing food choices of selected junior (9 to 13 years old) and senior (14 to 19 years old) 4-H club members enrolled in Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1968. Data were collected through group interviews with 200 juniors and 70 seniors--116 boys and 154 girls.…

To determine the objectives and priorities of the northerners for community development in the North, as expressed by their hopes and aspirations for their own future, the Man in the North (MIN) Project of the Arctic Institute of North America decided to bring together community-development specialists and residents of the Canadian Arctic and of…

Two studies investigating auditory information processing abilities of children are reported in this document. The first study analyzed the preferred specific acoustical dimension in an auditory discrimination task of preschool and sixth grade children from low and middle socioeconomic groups. Results indicated that children at both age levels do…

Three third-grade, three sixth-grade, and three adult female examiners tested 108 kindergarten and third-grade girls, half of whom were familiar to them, on three individually administered measures. No differences in performance on any measure as a function of familiarity were found at either grade level. No differences by examiners of different…

Research was conducted to determine the continuing education needs of clergymen in Michigan, particularly their most crucial ones, and to ascertain which needs might be met by programs of state-supported colleges and universities. Another objective of the study was to have the clergy identify major roles in their profession. From a total of 1,504…

The purpose of this study was to combine knowledge of teacher demographic data with time-series forecasting methods to predict teacher turnover. Moving averages and exponential smoothing were used to forecast discrete time series. The study used data collected from the 22 largest school districts in Iowa, designated as FACT schools. Predictions…

This document reports on a pilot study undertaken to determine what patterns of self-esteem would be found in a comparison of the self-evaluations of white, black, and Chicano adolescents and adults. The goals of the study were: (1) to test the hypothesis that the self-evaluations of minority adolescents would display more positive self-esteem…

Forty-eight middle-income children, equally divided as to sex, looked at a sequence of animated films in which a pair of male figures underwent a change in facial affect. Three questions were posed: (1) Could a qualitative-structural analysis be applied to the kinds of explanations given by the children to account for changes in facial affect? (2)…

This study investigated the relationships between symbolic play, reading readiness, drawing, Piaget's principle of conservation, and age, in 41 preschool children. Subjects were participants in a pre-first-grade summer program; they had had kindergarten experience but no formal reading instruction, and they ranged in age from five years, six…

This paper describes a one-year longitudinal follow up study of the long term effects of role taking training procedures (in which children assumed a number of perspectives) on children's social and cognitive behaviors. Longitudinal and cross-sectional age effects were also analyzed. In an earlier study the effect of two types of role-taking…

Examined was the language and communication development of 1,381 severely subnormal students in 19 schools in northwest England. (CL)

In 1975, questionnaires were given to 587 sophomores and seniors in 12 rural high schools. Findings included significant differences between ethnic groups on expected and desired family size and marriage age; but no differences between age groups. (Author/SJL)

The authors discuss the increasing interest in adult education and lifelong learning, the differences in and the differing needs of adult students, and the need for qualified lifelong educators who can work with adult students. (MF)