The aim of Project VISION (Vocational Information System Involving Occupational Needs) is the development of a model system of local occupational and employment information involving current and prospective manpower resources and requirements. Discussed in this presentation are the background and environment of the project, and some past, current,…

Contracts and grants sponsored under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended, and active for the fiscal year 1965 are described. Subject areas of research include: (1) Counseling and Guidance, (2) Discrimination in Employment, (3) Economic Growth, (4) Education, (5) Employment, (6) Industries, (7) International Experience,…

Contracts and grants sponsored under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended, are described. Included are (1) contracts awarded to universities, individuals and private organizations during the fiscal year 1966, (2) contracts initiated before July 1, 1965 but carried over to 1966, (3) long-range research programs initiated in…

This document is report of the New Hampshire Research Coordinating Unit activities from its inception in September 1967 to October 1968. The objectives of the Unit are: (1) to provide leadership in the systematic investigation of problems relating to vocational-technical education, (2) to encourage a positive attitude toward educational research…

Activities of the Oklahoma Vocational Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) are reported for the interim funding period from December 1, 1966 to August 31, 1968. The unit objectives were coordination of research, generation of new ideas, assisting researchers, and dissemination of results. The unit staff and priority problem areas to which they gave…

The purpose of the review was to draw together in one source recent information on treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers. In order to provide readers with a more in-depth feeling for the literature, the format of a 123-item annotated bibliography was chosen. Special emphasis was placed on annotating articles from 1970 to mid-1974. Research…

This Task Force on Privacy and Confidentiality is intended to call attention to the central role of the right to privacy in the maintenance and enrichment of a free society. The psychological implications of the changing views of privacy as reflected in political, social, and technological developments are discussed, and recommendations relating…

The educational leave program at the University of California, Davis, known as PELP (Planned Educational Leave Program) is examined and a comprehensive profile of students who request educational leave is given. Educational leave is described as an attempt to accommodate students who require time away from school to either gain experience in a…

The purposes of this paper are to examine more intensively than was attempted in the authors' first paper (not available through ERIC) a subset of the parent-child studies published in Child Development and Journal of Marriage and the Family for evidence of qualitative differences in the methodological approaches used in the two journals, and to…

Using as a data base a sample of 1,939 projects dealing with research and development, a comparison was made to determine the qualitative differences in types of projects funded by the National Institute of Education (NIE) and the United States Office of Education (USOE) for children and youth. Variables of interest include type of research,…

A group of voluntarily childless, maried women (N=38) were compared with a group of married women who planned to have children (N=32) and were similar in age, education, and socio-economic background. The two groups were compared on measures of three personality trait clusters which pertained to social adjustment, mental health, and sex-role…

The purpose of Project WIEDS in 1977-78 was to initiate a pilot research effort designed to identify and describe successful desegration strategies and remaining areas of need in selected desegregated schools. Two sources of data were used for the purpose of the study; desegregation literature and selected school district personnel within a close…

The Meta-Contrast Technique (MCT) was used to project, at the concrete perceptual level afforded by the test, two of the dilemmas confronting anxiety-ridden children: the threat against their uncertain sense of identity (revealed as fusion between the threat and the hero in the test) and the insufficiency of their defensive resources (revealed as…

The Meta-Contrast Technique (MCT) was used for a differential diagnosis of anxiety-ridden children aged 4-16 years. Signs of open fright in the test situation showed the greatest correlation with symptoms of paroxysmal anxiety (in older children). Other severe signs of anxiety were fusion between the hero and the threat, leaking defense…

This study investigates whether there has been a shift away from the sex-typing of the managerial profession as masculine toward an androgynous ideal. One hundred ten graduate students with jobs in the business community and 575 undergraduate business students completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory containing "masculine"--aggressive, makes decisions…