A substantial survey of a University population revealed a startling lack of knowledge about commonly used drugs. These data are discussed and suggestions are outlined for an effective university level drug education program. (Author)

The generally held hypothesis that a client will be more verbally accessible if she thinks her interviewer is like herself was not supported. In fact, the opposite was significantly true. The authors discuss possible reasons for the unexpected results they obtained. (SE)

Secondary analysis of questionnaire data from the 1973 NORC General Social Survey and the 1973 University of Michigan Youth in Transition Survey tested the null hypothesis that there was no difference between respondents who had experienced stepfather families (N=122) and respondents who had experienced natural-parent families (N=2,747). Findings…

Using questionnaires, it was found that there are differences in perception of academic pressures and university environment between academically least-successful (ALS) and academically most-successful (AMS) black freshman students. ALS students perceived environment more nonintellectual and providing for social interaction than AMS students;…

Helper-judged frequency and discomfort values were established for potentially challenging interaction situations between nonprofessional child aides and young maladapting school children. Child aggression, family problems, limit-testing behavior, and rarely experienced situations produced greater helper discomfort than did the child's need to…

Two hundred workers were tested for self-actualization, internal vs external locus-of-control, repression vs sensitization, need for approval, and the tendency to attribute job satisfaction and dissatisfaction to motivators and hygienes. Results indicate that self-actualization is related to the attribution of satisfaction to both motivators and…

This study concerns the use of the Friendship Rating Scale, a noncompetitive instrument in which the raters establish hierarchical preferences but without forcing subjects into subordinate positions following higher rating. The FRS is an assessment device for determining the correlation between peer status and academic achievement. (Author/HMV)

In the present study, the Vocational Preference Inventory scores for a group of black students and white students were factor analyzed and the black structure was rotated to correspond to the white structure. The correspondence between the variables for black and white students was found to be very similar. (Author)

Utilizing a method of explicit comparison between students' measured characteristics and the measured characteristics of occupational norm groups, the results of this study showed students in the groups receiving feedback increased in the appropriateness of the occupational level of their first occupational choice. A delayed posttest indicated…

Evidence from this and other research indicates that improvement in economic status in those societies in which the ideal is the large and complex family, and without other changes in the culture, is likely to result in families approaching the ideal. (Author)

This article describes the life cycle of an industrial research and development project and suggests applications to educational research and development. It also discusses the importance, funding, staffing, and management of a research and development effort.(DC)

The exploratory research raises questions regarding the learning environment of rural adults in Ghana and Sri Lanka and challenges assumptions regarding adult learners in developing countries. Utilizing an inductive approach, the study hopes to identify the overall principles of rural life-long learning. (MW)

Compared two groups of children know to be poor readers, those with adequate perceptual functioning and those without, to determine what inadequate perceptual functioning is related to the severity of the reading and adjustment problems. Inadequate Bender performance was related to a more severe reading problem. (Author/PC)

Multiple linear discriminant function analyses were performed using academic, performance, and personality variables to discriminate among groups of transfers, persisters, and dropouts two years after college matriculation. Analysis of all variables combined added no predictive power beyond that by either subset alone. The results held up on…

Within-classroom comparisons indicated that individualized instruction with group contingencies sharply increased the academic production of children from all ability levels, significantly improved social behavior, and changed the teacher's mode of instruction and interaction with the children. Individualized instruction alone had lesser effects,…