A list is given of the 99 projects funded for fiscal year 1969 by the Mental Retardation Hospital Improvement Program (HIP), a direct grant program designed to stimulate improved services to the mentally handicapped in state institutions by demonstrating innovative techniques. Information provided specifies grantee institution and address (by…

This paper has two purposes: (1) to describe the general characteristics of a research project on which this is one part; and (2) to report an experimental attempt at improving academi c performance of low achieving ninth grade students through self concept enhancement (Experiment B). Briefly discussed are the experiments and the research design…

Four papers discuss the Harvard Preschool Project whose goal is to learn how to structure the experiences of the first six years of life to encourage maximal development of human competence. To determine what competence at age 6 is, a group of 13 highly competent 6-year-olds of mixed residence, class, and ethnicity were compared to a like group of…

This program was designed to provide higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students of intellectual promise whose high school scholastic averages, aptitude test scores and personal finances preclude admission under regular procedures to baccalaureate programs of the City University of New York. The goal of the program was to have…

The evaluation data for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and State operated dormitories for Native Alaskans is contained in this section of the Project Alaskan Native Needs Assessment. An instrument, originally developed for Project Off-Reservation Boarding Schools, 1972 (ED068237) evaluation, was selected. Eleven procedures for the use of the…

The next 25 years will see dramatic changes in the U.S. Arctic and sub-Arctic. Some major forces generating these changes are national energy demands, Alaska oil and gas development, environmental conservation pressures, and the reallocation of over 200 million acres of U.S. public land among Federal, State, and private interests. To provide…

This report summarizes the first-year findings of a research program which investigated the nature and extent of residential care for dependent, neglected, or disturbed children in approximately 32 institutions in Georgia. Information was collected on each institution's physical facilities, staff structure, and policies. Data were also gathered on…

Personal interviews were conducted in July, 1967, with 315 farm operators in rural Brazil where the local extension service had been in operation for more than four years. Patron-dependence (PD) was described as the subscription to a value system, according to the individual's position in the status structure, which produces dependency at…

This research study deals with the relationships of personality and intelligence to English school achievements in the seventh grade of Finnish secondary school. Emphasis is placed upon student factors in learning and teaching a foreign language, particularly upon those student variables which the teacher can influence. A literature review…

This report was developed in response to a request from the Chairman of the General Subcommittee on Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor for use in hearings on revisions of the 1968 Amendments to the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Background information regarding the distribution of the population in…

Under the guidance of the Council of Europe's ad hoc Committee for Educational Research, a second survey of the educational research policy, principal educational research organizations, and major educational research projects of member countries has been completed. To facilitate comparison with the 1968 survey, a similar questionnaire was used.…

Over 150 teachers and administrators contributed practices and ideas to this first report of the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Promising Practices in the Teaching of English. From these the committee identifies three national trends: (1) a growing sense of responsibility by the federal government to encourage and implement…

This report presents information on the interrelation of selected behavioral characteristics of children six to eleven years of age as obtained in the Health Examination Survey of 1963-65. Data were obtained from the parents on a self-administered medical history questionnaire and a more detailed supplemental medical history administered by a…

As part of an effort to help coordinate information flow (and thus, future research activities), this fourth Inventory of Projects and Activities in Reading and English continues to report (1) action programs seeking to exploit advances in linguistic science and related fields, (2) projects seeking to explore ways of handling the special language…

The major focus of this investigation was to examine the impact of a six-week occupational unit on upper elementary school children's knowledge and attitudes toward occupations. The study also investigated the relationship between children's occupational knowledge and their attitudes toward occupations. One-hundred and forty-eight inner-city…