The research reported in this paper is the result of a project to develop a preschool mathematics curriculum for economically deprived children in Hawaii. The developed materials were tested with preschool children in Head Start classes and a preliminary assessment of the curriculum was made. An attempt was made to evaluate the curriculum which…

This final report of the Massachusetts Vocational Education Research Coordinating Unit (RCU), covers the activities during the period, April 1967 through October 1969. During the first year (April 1967-June 1968), the RCU concentrated on establishing an information system and announcing its existance. One third of the staff time was devoted to…

This compilation of research in agricultural education includes abstracts of 82 studies completed during 1968-69 in 11 of the 13 states of the American Vocational Association Central Region. They are arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by subject. A list of studies in progress in 1969-70 is also included. The abstracts are organized…

Abstracts of 41 studies in agricultural education completed in the American Vocational Association North Atlantic Region, in the years 1968-69, are included in this mimeographed document. Represented are staff studies, doctoral dissertations, and masters theses. The individual abstracts include the purpose, method and findings of each study.…

The register of research currently underway in Europe on visual impairment contains a scan-column index of approximately 60 research topics and an alphabetical list of 204 research workers. Criteria for selection are explained to have limited project inclusion to studies of conditions which have so far proved intractable to amelioration through…

Twenty-nine institutions of higher education operating in Nebraska in the fall term of 1972 were surveyed with regard to enrollment statistics. Statistics indicate by county and institutions the head-count enrollments by type of institution, academic level, counties of origin, size of 1967 county 12th grade enrollment, regions, and states.…

Professionals in the fields of counseling and counseling psychology do not have a clearly defined role that helps them to form a professional identity. Many of the functions presently performed by professional counselors are within the capacity of trained, mental health paraprofessionals. However, research indicates that professional counselors…

Ninety-seven new residents entering five randomly selected residence halls at the University of Maryland, College Park, completed a questionnaire on their first impressions (2 to 4 weeks) of their dorm and changes they would like to see. Fifty-six had never lived in a residence hall before and 44% had, and 59% did not know anyone on their floor…

In 1971-72, 334 students in 16 sections in beginning French, and in 1972-73, 331 students in 24 sections in the same course, rated their graduate student instructors on a 35-item scale. Student performance data on the first, midterm, and final departmental examinations and on SAT-V (1972-73 only) were taken, and residual learning gain (final exam…

The study was designed to assess the impact of three predominantly black colleges upon Family Independence (FI), Peer Independence (PI), Liberalism (L), Social Conscience (SC), and Cultural Sophistication (CS), as defined and measured according to the College Student Questionnaires (CSQ). The CSQs were administered to students as entering freshmen…

Academic unionism emerged during the 1960's for a variety of reasons. Higher education faculty are organizing for collective bargaining for professional advancement. To what factors are individual faculty members' attitudes toward collective bargaining attributable? This study's findings supported hypothesized relationships between sets of…

This initial survey was an attempt to determine the present status of institutional research in the public community colleges. Since this was an initial survey, only the basic type of questions about the institutional research function at each community college were explored. The data gathered are presented in a series of tables with brief…

This study attempted to distinguish high school dropouts from non-dropouts by the use of discriminant analysis from data obtained in a dropout intervention project. The variables examined were taken from data forms used in the project and based on past literature on the subject of high school dropout prevention. It was found that significant…

Assessing the extent to which survey results vary as a function of how the data was collected provides a sounder basis for interpreting the magnitude of a problem implied in a particular set of survey results. This study was concerned with drug abuse in the Army, and was directed at comparing reported drug rates obtained by a variety of…

A mailed survey was conducted of the drinking practices of students at the University of Minnesota. Responses were received from 402 of the 496 individuals in a random sample of students at the Twin Cities campus. Key findings include: (1) the majority of students, 56 percent of the men and 61 percent of the women, were classed as moderate…