A survey of graduates of the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work master's program is reported. Data on the extent of dissemination and utilization of their theses revealed that over half of the student research was used in a practitioner-beneficial manner. Variables relating to research utilization are identified. (Author/MLW)

North Carolina State University offers a course designed to help students evaluate the community in which they are student teaching. In the first phase of the course, emphasis is on the understanding of and planning for the research. In phase two the student studies community life in detail. (LRA)

Describes an advanced course in public relations methods wherein students use an online computer terminal system to analyze up-to-date field data and to prepare realistic audience-targeted campaigns. (RL)

The authors describe a research effort funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention which is addressing the hypothesized link between learning disabilties and juvenile delinquency. (SBH)

The trend in agriculture is to fewer and larger farms--a trend that is evident in the food animal industry as well. The economic value of services delivered, and the need for veterinarians to improve relationships with people in all fields of animal science are discussed. (MLW)

The Legislative Environmental Advisory Group (LEAG) is an experimental program whose purpose is to produce public policy research on environmental issues for Iowa state legislators. LEAG's membership, selection of six manageable research areas, evaluation of projects, scheduling, and dissemination of results are briefly discussed. (MLW)

Assessed the effectiveness of an established two-credit course in personal-career decision making. Results indicate that experimental participants altered their locus of control toward internality; that they were considerably more articulate than controls in describing career concepts; and that they had taken more action toward resolving their…

Examines style and content, therapeutic quality, and changes in interaction patterns of two group therapists serving as leaders in an experiential, interpersonal coping course for junior high school students. The course stresses improvement of students' self-esteem. The results may facilitate development of effective interventions for helping…

Originally designed to create small farms for individual Navajos, the irrigation project has grown into a single 110,000-acre corporate agribusiness, the land's management has fallen out of the grasp of individual Navajos, and the idea of subsistence farming has been plowed under for the planting of major money-making crops. (NQ)

The reasons for Doherty's successful, concurrent activities in national and regional research and evaluation projects and publications and his career as an evaluator for a public school system are discussed. (MH)

The authors review current brain hemisphere laterality research in relation to music education, concluding that evidence is still insufficient to determine the functions of the left brain and right brain in music perception. They also consider the effects of training on the cerebral processing of music stimuli. (SJL)

Organizational aspects and implementation of Switzerland's national research program that promote goal-oriented research in the service of the general public are described. The Federal Council of Switzerland decides on the topics to be researched and the National Fund is responsible for carrying out the programs. (Author/SF)

Sorority pledges at the University of Wisconsin--Madison were surveyed. They are described in terms of demographic variables as well as social and political attitudes. The pledges tend to be an affluent group of women with high social class and religious homogeneity and a mix of liberal and conservative attitudes. (Author)

This study investigated how graduate students described and evaluated the characteristics of their work-training experiences. The impact of the experiences on professional career development is discussed, and some implications are drawn on the nature and importance of experiential learning. (Author)

All pairs of Rorschach inkblots were scaled for perceived similarity by one normal and two psychopathological samples. The resulting data were analyzed using Carroll and Chang's INDSCAL model, which resulted in a good fit in two dimensions. These were interpreted as a dimension of color and one of form ("twoness"). (Author)