A study on how people have responded to institutional termination and major elements of a humane process of closure are discussed. Kubler-Ross' five stages of human response to the prospect of death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance are applied to institutional termination. (MLW)

An annotated bibliography intended to add to the advancement officer's understanding of the survey (its design, techniques, and uses) is provided. (Author/MLW)

Evaluates various theories of causes of revolution (particularly, the Conservative, the Marxist, and Thermidorian) and concludes that existing theories generally avoid systematic study of revolution's consequences. Advances a theory that maintains that the economic effects of revolution are neither as pervasive nor as disruptive as commonly…

Provides pointers regarding seven basic steps for writing a student body public opinion survey news story: selecting a topic, forming some hypotheses, designing a questionnaire, constructing a sample design, collecting the data, analyzing the data, and writing the news story. (GT)

Details the crucial analytic distinctions to be drawn when assessing the kind of data one must deal with in ethnographic studies. Includes the necessity of separating first- and second-order concepts, a separation based primarily on whether the point of view reported is that of the informant or the researcher. (Author/IRT)

This study provides experimental evidence that instructional set can influence access to altered states of consciousness. Fifteen male subjects were randomly assigned to three groups, each of which received the same autogenic biofeedback training in hand temperature control, but each group received a different attitudinal set. (Editor)

The study focuses on the behavior of local school districts in allocating their budgets among teachers, other professional educators, support personnel, and nonpersonnel inputs. The results indicate that districts' allocative behavior at the margin is quite different from their average allocative behavior. (Author/EC)

Explores empirically the effect of expected salary level at the time of entry into an enterprise, and the extent to which these expectations are met over the course of employment, upon women's turnover behavior. Also determines the utility of biodemographic data derived at the time of entry into an enterprise for possibly predicting women's…

Considers the controversy between Bruner "et al." (1966) and Piaget (Inhelder & Piaget, 1964) followed up by Sinclair-de-Zwart (1967) concerning the role of language in the cognitive development of children between the ages of 5 and 7. (Author/RK)

Bytheway discusses the problems of representation and sampling methodology found in the Three Generation Family Study directed by Hill at the University of Minnesota. Hill responds to this criticism and challenges Bytheway to provide a better sampling design. (Author/HLM)

The present study predicted that, if arousal is unitary, then stressors which separately induce it should be additive in their effects on behavioral efficiency. (Editor)

Builds upon earlier experiments in an attempt to measure the interferences between simultaneous tasks and the effects of hypnotic dissociation in increasing or decreasing this interference, thus testing the validity of one or the other of two theoretical models. (Author/RK)

Describes a school mathematics curriculum, steps for its evaluation, an explanation of the mode of implementation of each step, and discusses the ways in which cooperation and systemization enhances the evaluation. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether or not secondary school principals represent the same organizational types found in business and industrial organizations. (Editor)