Sources of research funds for undergraduate faculty and ways to secure the funds are discussed. Information on three federal grant programs is provided, along with advice for obtaining funds from foundations and corporations, including techniques for gathering information on prospective funding sources. Suggestions on the process of preparing…

The current knowledge about what distinguishes productive and vital faculty members from their less dynamic peers is considered, along with additional information needs. Most empirical evidence on faculty productivity concerns only research and publication. Information is inadequate about other forms of faculty achievement and vitality, including…

This article reports on a research project in which a digitally based assessment model is being developed for the Pacesetter Program. This program, established by the College Board to prepare culturally diverse students for higher education, is built around a curriculum that reflects not only the world that these students come from but also the…

This paper examines the impact of 12 hours of exposure to Rational Behavior Training (RBT) and 10 days of exposure to a controlled conflict situation within a wilderness environment on 30 high school students. Results indicate that the treatment group, when compared with a control group, showed a marked and statistically significant reduction in…

Assuming that freshman research papers can be interesting as well as educational, this book presents ten sample student papers selected from classes in which research methods were taught through the use of newspapers and periodicals. The paper topics, based on real people and actual events, range from bizaare murder cases and treasure expeditions…

Children whose primary school experience was consistently "open," consistently "traditional," or "mixed" (open education followed by traditional) were compared on a number of psychological variables. Subjects were 120 children, aged 10 to 11, from six primary schools in suburbs of London, England. The open classroom…

This project was the result of a three year collaboration between the New York Urban Coalition and Intermediate School 162, Bronx, New York. Concerns addressed included institutional development, collaborative planning and implementation, school form and process, and technical assistance strategies. Intermediate School 162 was selected for…

This study investigated differences in perceived quality of life of 156 college students and 77 faculty members at the same university. It also addressed the issue of sex differences. Subjects responded to an 81-item quality-of-life survey by indicating their degree of dissatisfaction with each situation. Students differed significantly from…

Previously hospitalized psychiatric patients experienced a psychologically therapeutic day-care program. These aftercare clients were interviewed concerning psychological change in their behavior. The results show that most clients increased their ability to psychologically function and relatively few clients indicated a decrease in their ability…

The report summarizes membership, activities, and finances of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) for the year 1976-1977. SSRC is a nonprofit corporation which has as its purpose the advancement of research in the social sciences. It endeavors to stimulate the development of theory and empirical knowledge concerning human behavior through…

A description is presented of the "Qualitative Analysis of the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) Teacher Education Program" (QAULTEP). The overall objective of QAULTEP is to develop a model for the evaluation of teacher education programs and specifically to identify: (1) categories of pre-education variables that will best predict…

This study compared the appropriateness of course choices by female and male counselees as rated by female and male counselors to determine the possibility of sex bias effect. The sex, grade, and ability level of ratees were controlled in a four-way analysis of variance. The subjects were randomly selected and assigned to each counselor in order…

This study is an attempt to investigate the usefulness of imagery instructions in learning PA nouns embedded in sentences and conjunction phrases with three different age groups (third grade, sixth grade and college students). In addition, six different item types are employed to convey increasingly dissimilar contexts from study to test trials.…

Presented is the 1975 - 76 annual report of the Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute, a diagnostic, evaluation, and treatment center for children with complex handicaps in the state of Nebraska and Western Iowa. Priority goals of the institute are noted to be providing an interdisciplinary education and training program for personnel needed…

In the flush of the academic bull market of the 1960's a few perceptive writers called for a reexamination of higher education's mission, institutional goals, and the need to improve the quality of college and university instruction. But by and large these cries went unheard in the cacaphony of academic inertia. In the mid-70's a crisis in higher…