THE STUDY EXPLORED BASIC PATTERNS OF PERCEPTIONS AMONG PROFESSIONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN MEXICO ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF POSSIBLE NEW OBJECTIVES, KINDS OF FUNCTIONS, AND TYPES OF TRAINING FOR ITS EXTENSION AGENTS. DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM 147 EXTENSION AGENTS AND SUPERVISORS, EXPERIMENTALISTS, RESEARCH LEADERS, AND PROFESSORS, BY A MAILED…

PERCEPTIONS AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF 4-H OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMS OF 4-H SADDLE HORSE ADVISORS WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHER LIVESTOCK ADVISORS IN NORTHEASTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN DISTRICTS OF OHIO. DATA WERE COLLECTED BY QUESTIONNAIRES FROM 90 SADDLE HORSE AND 133 OTHER LIVESTOCK ADVISORS. STATE 4-H STAFF AND SUPERVISORS PROVIDED CORRECT ANSWERS.…

THE ARIZONA COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN INDIAN EDUCATION REQUESTED THAT TEACHERS SUMMARIZE PARTICULAR TECHNIQUES, AIDS, AND UNITS EFFECTIVE WITH INDIAN CHILDREN. THIS DOCUMENT IS A COMPILATION OF THOSE SUMMARIES. TECHNIQUES PRESENTED INCLUDE DEVELOPING PRIMARY GRADE CREATIVE WRITING, CREATING READING ATMOSPHERE AND MOTIVATION, TEACHING…

A questionnaire developed by the S-114 Research Project to study agriculture and home economics majors was utilized to develop a profile of students majoring in home economics at Utah State University (USU) and to compare goals, attitudes, and perceptions of USU home economics majors to those of home economics majors at 13 land grant colleges in…

This paper reports on a study of the components of political leadership and emphasizes problems of women in attaining positions of political leadership. The authors use the term political leadership to describe the decision-making mechanism within organizations. First they review their survey of the personnel of a large organization. Respondents…

Findings are presented from a study of the midlife dual career family (in which both members of the couple are professionally employed and are highly committed to their work, and where there may or may not be children present). Focus is on the attitudes, perspectives, and personality characteristics of the dual career wife, and distinction is made…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: children's development of syntactic aspects of reading comprehension, the relative contributions of the individual and the text in the comprehension and retention…

The document consists of a report by the chairman of the Committee on Anthropology and Education and six essays commissioned by the committee. In addressing the need to support educational anthropology programs, the report suggests: creation of a national fellowship program for graduate students; interchanges among educational anthropology…

The Pupil-Perceived Needs Assessment (PPNA) is designed to assist school personnel in collecting information on pupil attitudes, reactions, and feelings towards new and existing curricular and extracurricular programs or towards education in general, and to assess pupils' needs from the pupils' perspective. The package is not meant to be used as…

To test the similarity of student and instructor perceptions of the learning approaches used by particular instructors in the classroom, teachers and students (n=138) of ten social science classes at Valencia Community College (Florida) responded to a questionnaire. Items tested the instructors' application of the learning theories of Pavlov,…

TEACHER, STUDENT, AND CURRICULUM ARE ALL SUBJECT TO EXAMINATION IN THIS REPORT TO DETERMINE EACH ONE'S ROLE IN CREATING THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE UNDERACHIEVER, DEFINED AS A STUDENT WHOSE LANGUAGE GRADES DIFFER MARKEDLY FROM HIS OVERALL GRADE-POINT AVERAGE. THE IDEAL SETTING FOR THE INVESTIGATION WAS KING CITY, PSEUDONYM FOR THE ACTUAL CITY, WHERE…

A MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 100 COUNTY EXTENSION CHAIRMEN IN NORTH CAROLINA TO DETERMINE THEIR PERCEPTION OF THE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD'S ROLE IN PLANNING, IMPLEMENTING, AND EVALUATING COUNTY EXTENSION PROGRAMS, THEIR VIEWS ON WHO OUGHT TO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELECTED FUNCTIONS IN COUNTY PROGRAMING, ASSOCIATION OF SELECTED FACTORS WITH…

ALL PROFESSIONAL TEACHING PERSONNEL AND A RANDOM SAMPLE OF CITIZENS FROM AN EASTERN WISCONSIN SUBURB AND A NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN RURAL COMMUNITY WERE SURVEYED BY AN 88 ITEM OPINION QUESTIONNAIRE TO COMPARE THE PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS AND CITIZENS IN REGARD TO PROBLEMS AND ISSUES OF EDUCATIONAL VIEWPOINT, THE TASK OF THE SCHOOL, AND DIFFERENTIAL…

MEASURES OF CHILD BEHAVIOR AND CHARACTERISTICS, NOT YET PUBLISHED AS SEPARATE ENTITIES, WERE COLLECTED THROUGH A PAGE-BY-PAGE SEARCH OF ISSUES OF 46 JOURNALS (LISTED IN APPENDIX A) PUBLISHED DURING THE PERIOD OF JANUARY 1956 TO DECEMBER 1965 AND 50 RELEVANT BOOKS. CORRESPONDENCE WITH RESEARCHERS AND AUTHORS OF MEASURES YIELDED ADDITIONAL…

THIS PAPER IS CONCERNED WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHNIC OR OTHER SUBGROUP MEMBERSHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL'S COGNITIVE STYLE. THE COGNITIVE STYLE CHOSEN FOR INVESTIGATION HERE IS THAT OF FIELD-DEPENDENCE OR INDEPENDENCE. THE TWO ETHNIC-RELIGIOUS SUBCULTURES INVESTIGATED WERE JEWISH AND WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANT. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT…