The Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program at Hofstra University involves the participants in investigating the structure, claims, and methodologies of the natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and the psychological findings of Piagetian-oriented cognitive development studies. The Fellows in the program form groups to decide on research…

This study was designed to determine some of the educational characteristics associated with the construction of the independent student. Toward this end, 35 grade eleven teachers in an innovative school system were requested to supply the names of five independent, self-directed students and five not-independent, not-self-directed students. A…

This study was designed to: (1) compare the contribution of various categories of biographical data (biodata) to the differentiation of college attenders and nonattenders, and (2) to assess the accuracy of biodata as a predictor of collete attendance. Subjects consisted of 20,367 high school senior males who participated in the 1960 data…

To undertake a comprehensive study and review of educational programs at Stanford University, President Sterling in 1967 appointed the Steering Committee for the Study of Education at Stanford. This report, the first of a series of 10 to be issued by the Committee, discusses the background, premises, and purposes of the study. Later reports will…

This is the sixth in a series of publications prepared by the U.S. Office of Education which are concerned with an analysis of research in mathematics education. This publication presents a summary analysis of research in mathematics education and includes reports of Cooperative Research Projects supported by the Cooperative Research Program of…

The primary concern of this project was to obtain high-quality critiques of research studies in music education. To identify significant studies, the University of Illinois reviewed 782 dissertations in music education written since 1960. A number of these dissertations were critiqued and disseminated through the "Bulletin for the Council of…

For the two years prior to this report the Computational Linguistics Project in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University was engaged in research leading to computer programs for accepting and manipulating transformational grammars corresponding to a version of the theory based on Chomsky's "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax." These…

The Utah Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) was established to conduct and supervise vocational research, develop research competency in the State, disseminate vocation research information, and provide help in preparing research proposals. The research needs of Utah were established by workshop and teacher briefings and interviews with district and…

This study investigates seating distance and angles of location and orientation in a conversational situation as a function of several variables: attitudinal agreement or disagreement by a stranger, agreeing or disagreeing normative information, and personality variables. Subjects were 52 randomly selected introductory psychology students from the…

The first study concerns the effects of level of clinical experience of judges on reliability and validity of Experiencing Scale (EXP) ratings. Inexperienced and experienced judges rated tape-segments from psychotherapy sessions. No differences existed between ratings. The second study focuses on the relationships of in-therapy patient…

In April of 1967, some 166 Lebanese farmers (88 sunflower planters and 78 non-planters) were interviewed to determine attitudes toward governmental involvement in the sunflower project and government affairs in general, and toward education, farming, and village life. A tabulation of the results showed, among other things, that about one-third of…

Statistics on the allotment of funds and descriptions of activities carried out under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1973 are reported. Details are provided for activities in the categories of: (1) research project support, (2) national and international programs, (3) research applications, (4) science education research…

In 1970 many Australian students, teachers, and schools participated in the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Science Project. The aim of the project was to measure the science achievement of students in Australia and 18 other countries, and to examine relationships between this achievement and various…

The relationship between ratings of leadership effectiveness and conflict resolution methods was investigated within a large midwestern manufacturing firm. Hypotheses based on Blake and Mouton's managerial grid were tested and were not supported within these data. Results indicated that grid placement was a poor predictor of either perceived…

A quantitative apporach was used to identify factors relating to emotional adjustment in 84 dying patients. Eleven hospital chaplains collected data by interviewing dying patients. Results indicate that emotional adjustment to the awareness of a limited life expectancy was not related principally to religious orientation, although this was an…