The purpose of this study was to identify and compare attitudes and preferences of parents and teachers concerning the parent-teacher conference as one effective technique of sharing information about the student's progress in school. (Author)

The view is widely held that there exists a distinct set of social differences between youth and adults. This study examined perceptions of high school students in urban and rural centers in Alberta regarding the generation gap. (Editor)

A group of children, in their last term of attendance at nursery schools, were tested on their comprehension of words used in the first books of well-known reading schemes. (Author)

This article presents the results of a study which was designed to test the effects of a natural resource camp in changing attitudes towards natural resource namagement. Subjects were 130 teenage boys selected on the basis of demonstrated leadership. Over a one-week period, attitudes generally became more favorable. (LS)

This volume contains 10 original papers discussing methodologies applicable to performing psychosocial research on substance abuse, particularly abuse with drugs. Eight data analysis strategies are discussed by the authors: automatic interaction detection, actuarial prediction, cluster and typological analysis, path analysis, factor analysis,…

A major objective of this three year national Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) study was to evaluate the impact of ESAA programs by comparing schools that received ESAA funds with those that did not. Student growth in reading and mathematics were compared. To identify what kinds of schools (what allocations of resources, and what types of…

This paper points out that the assignment of individuals to serve sub-units of an organization is one of the significant problems which must be faced by administrators and supervisors of school psychology and school social work services. It then describes the development and implementation of a simple weighted proportion procedure for estimating…

The author presents a brief statement giving reasons for followup studies of teacher problems and explains the procedure for conducting such studies, the instruments used for data collection, and the estimated costs of a follow-up program. The four reasons cited for investigating teacher problems are: (1) to expose teacher educators to current…

This packet of forms, instruments, and guidelines has been assembled to aid in the determination of the articulation status and needs existing in elementary-junior high school and junior-senior high school programs. The term "articulation" is understood to mean the smooth transition from one grade or subject area into the next with as little…

This is the second of a four-volume report of Project EDNEED II (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data). (Project EDNEED II, conducted from July 1975 to September 1976, was designed to document the extent to which data currently collected by State vocational education agencies could be used to answer prioritized…

This is the fourth volume of a four-volume report of Project EDNEED II (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data), conducted from July 1975 to September 1976 to document the extent to which data currently collected by State vocational education agencies could be used to answer vocational education informational needs of…

This paper describes two experiments that were designed to evaluate several possible models for the symbol-element paradigm. (Author)

The anthropological field study approach is said to provide a means of breaking through the present conceptual framework that purports to understand complex phenomena by breaking them up into separate variables. (AM)