The aim of the CYCLOPS Project research is the development of techniques for allowing computers to perform visual scene analysis, pre-processing of visual imagery, and perceptual learning. Work on scene analysis and learning has previously been described. The present report deals with research on pre-processing and with further work on scene…

This study tested propostions from two theories of the personal change process in sensitivity training, and investigated whether mutually perceived support relationships (MPSR) and confrontation between members of MPSRs are both necessary for personal change. The Person Description Instrument, the Support Ranking Questionnaire, the Tension Ranking…

Three adult education conference papers, together with abstracts, are presented on adult education participation and self-concept. Propositions regarding behavior and motivation are discussed in the context of a theory of self-concept. Curiosity, enjoyment of learning activities, and pleasure in acquiring and/or possessing knowledge are among the…

A program for approximately 100 2- to 5-year-old culturally deprived Nashville, Tennessee, children was conducted in two community day-care centers. The children received instruction in groups of six or seven on a half-day basis for 5 days a week. Both language input and output were the focus of instruction, which was carried out through…

This workshop was planned to review the findings of a study on manpower utilization of professional (M.S.W. degree) and nonprofessional social work personnel in mental hospitals and to determine their application to the demands of a changing mental health program. A literature search and questionnaire survey were used to investigate the proportion…

An exploratory study focused on how, when, and under what conditions clients with long term illness and their families view the Public Health Nurse Home Visit Service (PHNHVS) as assisting them in family health care. Data were obtained from home interviews and nurse records of 68 families served by 13 nurses in one San Francisco Bay Area locality.…

An investigation was conducted to determine the magnitude and direction of the congruence of communicated expectations for teachers and students in the University City (Missouri) American Studies Program (an 11th grade history-literature, process oriented curriculum; (see SP 003 560) and for two conventional American history programs. A previous…

Children of migrant workers, whose employment necessarily entails travel and work during parts of the school year, suffer academically from their truncated schooling and a different cultural background from both those who teach them and those who attend school with them. To counter these disadvantages, the creation of an awareness group time--half…

Factors which function to cool women out of a straightforward, unblocked, and open pursuit of their career choices and life plans were sought in interviews with women in four two-year colleges. The factors were found to be: parents, counselors, uncontrollable circumstances, and the two-year institution. Although the women did not perceive the…

This paper is a preliminary report of findings from a study of racial attitudes toward black/white inequalities, conducted as part of the Social Indicators project at the Survey Research Centers at the University of California at Berkeley. Data were collected from a cross-sectional sample of the adult population of the five county San…

Syntactical rule differences in black dialect that can be more helpful to young adolescents' perceptions than the corresponding rules in standard English were studied. The syntactical rule in black dialect that was identified as being more explicit than the corresponding rule in standard English was the invariant "be" verb form (as in…

The study, involving 178 Mississippi vocational education teachers working in 12 different areas of vocational education who had been teaching three years or less, compared the work values and job attitudes which vocational education teachers hold toward teaching and students. Instruments utilized for data collection were a questionnaire…

Although a large number of studies on supervision have been redundant, some important empirical knowledge has been gained from research in this area. Gwaltney, Andburg, Blumberg, Weber and Amidon, and Marquit have studied the differing perceptions of supervisory behavior by teachers, supervisors, and administrators. Gross and Herriot and later…

The study investigates the nature of the relationship between student evaluations and faculty self-perceptions of instructional procedures. Various characteristics of students and faculty were treated as independent variables in an effort to interpret the degree to which they affected the discrepancies between the two rating groups. The…

The paucity of research and writings about nursing and the urban poor seems to indicate that the nursing profession has not yet analyzed and evaluated itself in this regard. If so, the nursing leadership has accepted its share of the challenge to improve the capabilities of practitioners who work with the poor without having assessed the…