A special symposium held at the University of Southern California examined an agenda for action, "Social Research on Broadcasting--Proposals for Further Development," which was commissioned by the British Broadcasting Company and written by Professor Elihu Katz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Participants included communications and…

Discusses new focus and format of the Personnel and Guidance Journal and relate this new focus to changes needed in counseling research. (EJT)

Describes conceptual problems in modeling the university as a firm and in studying the higher education industry. Suggests particular problems of adjusting to no growth. (JT)

Analyzes several manpower forcasts of the 1960's and early 1970's and the main reasons for their inaccuracy, suggesting new directions for research on labor markets for the highly educated. (JT)

Six major problems confronting attempts to use nonmetric multidimensional scaling to represent structures underlying similarity data are identified and the author's prospects for over-coming each of these problems are presented. (RC)

This article relates a brief historical background of social sciences in Japan, the institutional framework of social science education and research, and major issues and perspectives for the development of the social scinces. (ND)

Focuses on the contribution which African social scientists make, or could make, towards an understanding and hopefully a solution of the problems facing contemporary Africa. (Author/ND)

Three reactions to the paradox in question are given. Generally, some evaluation feedback is considered to hurt more than help, but more often than not evaluations can provide direction and guidance to educators. (AM)

Preparation of this paper facilitated by Grant GS-1741 from the Division of Social Sciences of the National Science Foundation.

There is a growing awareness among scientists and researchers in every field that the selection of problems for research, the guiding theories, the interpretation of evidence, and resulting conclusions can be, and in fact often are, shaped by political or social ideology. If infused with keenly critical vigilance, such awareness affords the best…

Three separate papers are included in this report. The first describes a two-stage procedure for choosing from among several instructional programs the one which maximizes the probability of passing the test. The second gives the exact sample sizes required to determine whether a squared multiple correlation coefficient is above or below a known…