Questionnaires were mailed to a sample of 1,980 non-returning, non-occupational students who had been enrolled at Cerritos College during spring 1976 but did not return in fall 1976, in order to test the applicability of the California community college Student Accountability Model (SAM), a statewide follow-up system for occupational students, to…

This paper documents the social changes that have taken place in the American family during the last quarter century and suggests that these changes have created the need for new directions in both public policy and developmental research. The general trend reveals progressive fragmentation and isolation of the family in its child rearing role, as…

The third in a series of geography bibliographies published by the Geography Curriculum Project, this bibliography provides an overview of work in the field of geographic education and research according to particular areas of interest from 1965 through July 1975. Three main sources were searched for entries: ERIC Data Base, "Dissertation…

A large-scale study of the relationship between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism was made to evaluate the effects of an anthropology curriculum on students' levels of ethnocentrism. Its hypothesis is that ethnocentrism is modified by studying anthropology and, to a lesser extent, other social sciences. The design, execution, and analysis of…

The report describes the construction, application, and theoretical implications of an econometric model depicting the effects of labor subsidies on the supply of workers in the U.S. Three papers deal with the following aspects of constructing the econometric model: (1) examination of equilibrium wages, employment, and earnings of primary and…

This dissertation investigates the factors operant during the high school years which facilitate or inhibit the entrance into college of a group of low-income students in a New York City high school. A qualitative approach is used to examine a group of students in a compensatory education program, the transactions that occurred between them, their…

Data on the responses of nearly 54,000 individuals from the original sample of approximately 200,000 11th and 12th grade students are presented in an 11-year followup on the 1960 Project TALENT survey. Information is arranged regarding the educational, career, and personal and family experiences of the group, and their reflections on the value of…

This bibliography, made up of approximately 350 entries concerned with many aspects of problem solving and concept formation in young children, has been designed for use by people primarily involved in experimental research in these areas of child development. Entries include experimental journal articles, conference papers, unpublished research…

The attitude scales used in the Home Environment and School Study are presented in order to make them available for wider use in research investigations, and with this purpose in mind evidence is reported on the validation and reliability studies which were undertaken to support their use in this particular inquiry. In this investigation, five…

In a study of factors in the educational environment of the home, the school, and the peer group contributing to achievement and attitudes towards schooling at the upper primary and lower secondary school levels, an opportunity arose to examine the data available for configural and curvilinear relationships. Information was collected on 11…

The computer programs described in this manual were designed for the analysis of data resulting from psychological experiments which hypothesize an aptitude- or trait-treatment interaction (ATI). The programs were written in Fortran IV for use on most CDC 6400/6600 and IBM 360 computer systems. Research designs to which the programs are applicable…

The structure and quality of classroom interaction and the ways in which children learn how to interact appropriately was the initial focus of the research and field work described in this paper. The site was a kindergarten/first grade class in a suburban Boston Title I elementary school with many students from second and third generation…

The Follow Through experience is beginning to provide compelling evidence bearing upon important policy issues in compensatory education. This evidence, coming as it does from a naturalistic quasi-experiment, cannot draw its plausibility from the conventional statistical inference appropriate to probabilistically-constructed true experiments. The…

This paper presents a comprehensive review of research literature in the area of interracial awareness development in preschool children and highlights key issues for future research. An historical look at the study of racial attitudes reveals three major research techniques. The first type utilizes pictures, line drawings, or actual photos. The…

Many people hope that the unique skills and perspectives of anthropologists can help them to make the contributions to social programs that have eluded other social scientists. Ethnography promises to make a significant contribution to evaluation of educational innovations. Before this promise can be realized, however, there are many practical and…