This article presents a longitudinal analysis of the Florida Parent Education Programs which were designed to provide intervention services to socioeconomically disadvantaged parents of young children through home visits by paraprofessional personnel. The programs include the: (1) Parent Education Project (PEP); (2) Early Child Stimulation through…

A cluster sample of 1,300 male adults from the State of West Virginia stratified in terms of community size, region (north or south, mining or nonmining), and socioeconomic status were surveyed via questionnaire to determine their feelings about selected sociopsychological issues. Classified in terms of size, seven communities were involved in the…

Based on the premise that ecological and health problems, and human responses to these problems, are directly related to community social and economic conditions, this study examined differences in health, housing, and human concerns across socioeconomically defined neighborhoods in West Virginia. Counties were grouped into three environmental…

Population grew faster in nonmetro than in metro countries of the United States between 1970 and 1973. This trend reverses the previous pattern of inmigration to cities. Among the reasons for increases in rural areas and small towns are: (1) decentralization of manufacturing and other industry; (2) increased settlement of retired people; (3)…

Although there is no difference between the training provided for school psychologists who practice in rural communities and those who render service in urban areas, there are definite contrasts in the actual work. An elaboration of these comprises the bulk of this paper. Differences covered are: (1) the inordinate amount of travel time required…

Using 959 members of the September 1968 freshman class of Mesa Community College, Arizona, this study analyzed the relationship of American College Testing Program (ACT) test battery placement scores to junior college grade point averages (GPA) for freshmen entering as adults and for those entering as recent high school graduates. Recent graduates…

The data in this report were collected in 1966 from a representative sample of 600 elementary and secondary public school teachers. The report itself is comprised of five parts. The first one concerns the life style of public school teachers. It includes a description of their residential and economic conditions, and their cultural background. The…

This study proposed to create a value-oriented unit of short, fast-moving fiction, poetry, and discussion lessons for and about contemporary young people, and then to measure their appraisal of this unit. Subjects were 303 students from one suburban and two urban high schools (one all Negro, one all white, and one evenly integrated). Information…

This paper reviews some recent research on the relationship of group processes and cultural milieux to choice of linguistic form and Its implications for problem solving in small (minority) groups. Basic to the discussion is the concept that language usage conveys important social information and is therefore not a matter of choice but must be…

An experiment tested the assumption that differences in learning to learn (LTL) are to a large extent explained by differences in what groups of different socioeconomic status (SES) have learned about ways to learn a task. A 6-problem concept attainment task not dependent on verbalization was used. Subjects were 108 elementary school Caucasian…

This study examines, by adaptation of the Likert-type scale, the attitudes of a random sample of Bayfield citizens toward a new national park comprising 20 of the Apostle Islands and 42,000 acres of Lake Superior shoreline in northern Wisconsin, and its possible impact on the community. With the use of correlation analysis and regression…

The significance of family background (FB) and school factors (SO) in predicting differences among students in their achievement and motivation in different regions of the country (North-South) and areas of residence (metropolitan-nonmetropolitan) is investigated. A statistical test of the equality of slopes and intercepts was used for the FB and…

Using a sample of 50 completers and 50 program dropouts, all Negro women, this study investigated personal and participant characteristics of 1,307 Chicago welfare recipients (largely women) who had been students in the Hilliard Adult Education Center during 1965-68. Data were gathered on age, sex, marital and family status (including legitimate…

Supervision of instruction and the education of disadvantaged children in rural areas, including parent-school relations, are the subjects discussed in this 1969 document on the schools of Leflore County, Mississippi. The report contains 3 divisions: (1) introductory comments, where the consultant's general reaction to the school situation and to…

An evaluation was made of the capabilities and utilization of Group 4 personnel aboard an operational navy vessel (U.S.S. Catskill MCS-1). Assessments were made of a Group 4 sample and a comparison non-Group 4 sample in terms of aptitudes and experience, training achievement, and preliminary shipboard performance. The results indicate that the…