The role of documentation in the planning and control functions of project management is reviewed. The importance of documentation in the assessment of research quality with respect to objectivity, validity, and replicability is discussed. An outline of documentation required in different phases of research projects is provided. (Author/DWH)

The past 15 years or so have witnessed a dramatic rise in activities and programming in continuing social work education. This article discusses the reasons for this phenomenon; it reviews the developing literature base; and it suggests directions for future research. (CT)

Research was conducted addressing the following topics: productivity of agricultural education faculty members in generating new knowledge; research productivity of agricultural education faculty versus other vocational education service areas; factors encouraging research productivity; factors inhibiting productivity; and methods of increasing…

Intended to help people understand the experience of developing a research project and of carrying out its early stages, this article describes Project Athens, which studied factors affecting the development of a sense of political efficacy among college students. (RM)

This paper reports on a two year investigation currently being conducted by the University of Washington into the "Assessment and Experiment With Management of Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Research Projects." The recruitment and resource issues, as common issues encounted in discussions of interdisciplinary research, are the focus of…

Reported is a study exploring the hypothesis that gains in reading achievement result when teachers assess the students and predict improvements in reading ability. (GW)

Elementary school teachers and their supervisors were surveyed to determine their perceptions of supervisory tasks. (GW)

A clinical setting was used to evaluate therapist characteristics, therapist process, and family process in a short-term systems-behavioral model of family intervention. Families were designated by one of four degrees of therapy outcome. The data suggest that therapist relationship skills may be crucial determinants of therapy success. (Author)

Rehabilitation clients completed the Mini-Mult Test. Their responses were factor analyzed and reduced to four factors using Cattell's Screen Test. The first three factors replicated those found in previous research while the fourth had no parallel. The first three factors were retained as subscales. (NG)

One issue that has concerned investigators in recent years has been alcoholics' perception of their ability to control events that affect them. The current study investigated the relationship of locus of control scores to dropping out of treatment at various stages. Results are discussed. (Author)

A semantic differential technique was used to compare the attitudes of 70 adolescents and 65 young adults toward the aged. The Instrumental-Ineffective dimension illustrated that the adolescent population demonstrated a more favorable attitude toward the aged than did the young adults. (Author)

The researchers used experimental and control groups to compare the rankings of selected stereotypes by 67 male and 124 female college freshmen for the occupational representatives of Holland's six personality and occupational types. (Author)

A test of Holland's vocational theory across and within selected occupational groups demonstrated concurrent validity for three of the four groups investigated. Statistically significant coefficients of concordance indicated a degree of agreement among individuals in each of the occupational groups investigated. (Author)

This empirically based study of 324 technicians investigated the moderating impact of job satisfaction in the prediction of job performance criteria from ability test scores. The findings suggest that the type of job satisfaction facet and the performance criterion used are important considerations when examining satisfaction as a moderator.…

Personality characteristics of husbands and wives were examined in two contexts: (1) traditional families, in which the husband was employed and the wife was a homemaker; and (2) two-career families, in which both members were employed. Results are discussed. (Author)