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Download full textWall, James E.; Shill, James F. – 1972
This annual report for fiscal year 1972 describes the major activities and accomplishments of the Mississippi Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational-Technical Education. During the report period special effort was given to assisting local school systems in implementing programs of career education. Other major programs are summarized and…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Wilkinson, Gene L. – 1970
The recurrence of problems in connection with research and development (R and D) activities supported by the Audio-Visual Center of Indiana University led to the development of a proposed control system. This paper lists those problems and examines the assumptions which must be met by the control system--that the Center will support all types of R…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Audiovisual Centers, Management Systems, Models
Jacobi, Eileen – 1972
A total of 96 nurses who are conducting or teaching research attended a 2-day conference designed to increase competencies of nurse researchers in scientific investigations and in critically evaluating research. Some of the papers presented during the conference were: (1) "Appraising the Quality of Nursing Care" by E. Hagen, (2)…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Conference Reports, Educational Research, Medical Research
American Management Center, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1972
To determine the impact of vocational education research and related projects on educational practice in Pennsylvania since 1966, descriptive data were gathered on 115 Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) projects funded from 1966 through March 1972. Some general findings were: (1) Most projects were housed in public schools (Grades 9-12) serving…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Practices, Educational Programs, Educational Research
McKeen, Cliff; And Others – 1972
Relationships among peer social interaction rate, classroom activity, and teaching style were investigated to determine whether teaching style could be defined in terms of differential student interaction rates across various classroom activities. Peer interaction rates were determined in three primary level classrooms representing various…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Group Behavior
RICKARD, SCOTT T. – 1966
SIMULATED CASE MATERIALS FOR THE PREPARATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS WERE DEVELOPED AND TESTED. FOUR SIMULATED CASES WERE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN AN 8-WEEK RESEARCH PROJECT INVOLVING 46 GRADUATE STUDENTS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO A CONTROL AND AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP. THE STUDY REVEALED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL AND…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction
SNELLGROVE, CHARLES E., JR. – 1966
THE SIMULATION OF A DESIRABLE COUNSELING PROCESS WITH EMPHASIS ON SYSTEMATIC COUNSELOR REINFORCEMENT OF NEGATIVE SELF-REFERENCE STATEMENTS BY STUDENTS WAS REPORTED. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT DEFINITE MEASURABLE COUNSELING PROCEDURES COULD BE EXPERIMENTALLY TESTED AND HAVE PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES. THE VERBAL OPERANT CONDITIONING PARADIGM…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Services, Experimental Programs, Individual Counseling
RIGHTHAND, HERBERT; AND OTHERS – 1966
A RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT WAS ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE VOCATIONAL RESEARCH THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH RESOURCES, PERSONNEL, AND TECHNIQUES. IN ADDITION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSALS FOR THE CONDUCT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH BY LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES WAS ENCOURAGED. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES TO DATE…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Resources, Occupational Information, Research Coordinating Units
LEE, ARTHUR M. – 1966
AN OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION UNIT WAS ESTABLISHED TO STIMULATE VOCATIONAL RESEARCH, TO INITIATE AND COORDINATE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN PROPOSAL DESIGN, TO WRITE PROPOSALS, AND TO ACT AS LIAISON BETWEEN FEDERAL AND OTHER FUNDING AGENCIES. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Federal Aid, Occupational Information, Research Coordinating Units
Krieger, William G. – 1976
Studies of social comparison choice have utilized a paradigm which fails to distinguish comparison motives from more general information search motives. In the present study subjects were either exposed to the standard social comparison manipulation or asked to determine the distribution of a set of unknown random variables arranged in rank order.…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Motivation
Yockey, Jamie M.; And Others – 1975
The sex role preceptions and behavior of female college students were examined in this study. Using an exchange theory orientation, it was hypothesized that role perceptions and related behavior patterns are related to the rewards and costs a woman expects to result from the performance of masculine and feminine behaviors. The women first…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Experimental Psychology
Doll, William H.; and Others – 1976
This paper is an exploration into the multiple levels and dimensions of the familiar reactions to former mental patients. A form of the Incomplete Sentence Blank Test (ISB) is presented as an instrument to reach beyond the unidimensional restrictions of standard measures, which tend to ask respondents about abstract, hypothetical implications and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Family Life, Family Problems, Institutional Role
Godow, Annette G.; LaFave, Francis – 1976
The impact of a college human sexuality course upon sexual attitudes and behavior was examined. A questionnaire, designed by the authors, was administered to students of a human sexuality course and a social psychology course at the beginning and end of the spring semester, 1975. On six of the seven attitudinal categories measured, students from…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavior Change
Levin, Irwin P. – 1976
A combination of information integration methodology and measures of retention was used to investigate how subjects differentially attend to and weight information in judgmental tasks. Subjects were shown sets of test scores for hypothetical students and were asked to rate the performance of each student or predict each student's performance on a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking
Sherman, Julia A. – 1976
To test whether the traditionally inferior performance in mathematics of girls relative to boys is the result of sex stereotyping, 2,000 sixth- to twelfth-grade boys and girls were administered tests in mathematics aptitude and tests to measure the strength of sex-role stereotyping. The results showed that at all levels subjects displayed no…
Descriptors: Females, Mathematics Education, Research Projects, Secondary Education
