Compiled from data gathered in fiscal years 1969 and 1970 by the Science Information Exchange, Smithsonian Institution, this inventory of more than 4200 federally and non-federally supported environmental research projects represents an attempt to provide a meaningful look at the shape, complexity, and direction of current and recent research.…

The Educational Research Training Center has trained 54 professional educators in a period of 5 years. It employed a consortium of four universities and 20 public and parochial school districts to accomplish research needed by the member institutions and to train research personnel for the member school districts and universities. Trainees,…

Drastic changes in the teaching market, the nature of our times, and the support of universities demand an examination of present teacher education programs. This investigation set out to examine selected aspects of teacher education programs as a basis for establishing the future direction of the total teacher education program of the Department…

The bibliography of research on the visually handicapped covers approximately 1,300 entries published between the years 1953 and 1971, inclusive. Only those references containing reports of research on the visually handicapped in which empirical data of some kind were collected are included. Studies of single cases are included, with most studies…

The Cooperative Research Program (CRP) was organized in 1956 by the U.S. Office of Education. This 7-year program developed new knowledge about major educational problems and devised new applications of existing knowledge for solving problems. The average contribution of the Federal Government to each project was $50,000 for a 2-year project or…

As an extension of ideas suggested in an earlier paper which proposed a project control system for Indiana University's Audio-Visual Center (see EM 010 306), this paper examines the establishment of project legitimacy and priority within the system and reviews the need to stimulate specific research proposals as well as generating a matrix of…

Male extended-care patients (N=81) relocated due to planned demolition of the building in which their ward was located were followed for 21 months in an effort to examine the influence of relocation on mortality. Results show no increased mortality thus suggesting the degree of environmental change may be important. Paper presented at Canadian…

The study reveals that a statistically significant number of teachers took advantage of a legislative option permitting them to retire earlier than previous legislation had permitted. The implications of this finding on the variables effecting attitudinal militancy among teachers and other professionals constitutes the primary thrust of the paper.…

A state-wide study examined early childhood educators' perspectives of death education for young children. Results indicate that teachers are attempting to respond to children's concerns related to death, and exploring the possibility of initiating a more systematic approach to death education as a component of the early childhood curriculum.…

In laboratory groups the consequences of positive, negative, and no leader feedback were examined following collective group failure. Results suggested that positive leader feedback, following collective failure, is a more effective strategy than negative leader feedback to increase group integration, perceived task motivation, and leader…

Compares three methods of treating missing data with respect to the results obtained, the informational value of each method, the population to which the results can be referred, and statistical power. (Author)

Compulsive eating (uncontrolled overeating that is not related to hunger) was investigated in 279 college women with the use of a self-report questionnaire. Results indicated a relationship between unpleasant affective states (boredom, depression, anxiety, loneliness, anger), a calming effect of eating, and compulsive eating. Implications for…

In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 clergymen highly involved in assisting divorcing couples, in an attempt to discern their attitudes toward intervention in divorce. Respondents viewed divorce as a traumatic experience involving four discrete psychological stages. (Author)

In addition to suggesting the influence of adult-adult transactions on consultation, this study offers insight to researchers seeking appropriate experimental designs for manipulating relevant process variables in consultation and detecting the effects of these manipulations. (Author)

The Slosson Intelligence Test, unlike most current measures of intelligence, uses a ratio method of mental age divided by chronological age to obtain an IQ score. Standard deviations are not stable across age levels. It is concluded that the Slosson is inappropriate for use in the diagnosis of mental retardation. (Author)