DURING THE SUMMER OF 1966, 14 TRADE AND TECHNICAL EDUCATORS FROM COLLEGES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES MET AT UCLA IN A WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO PERMIT THEM TO WORK AS A GROUP ON PROBLEMS OF MUTUAL CONCERN. THEY PARTICIPATED WITH MORE THAN 500 TRADE AND TECHNICAL TEACHERS FROM CALIFORNIA WHO WERE ENROLLED IN THE UCLA SUMMER SESSION PROGRAM. THROUGH ACTIVE…

A followup study of 167 hearing impaired graduates from Pennsylvania educational institutions from 1970-1975 was conducted. Four instruments--a student questionnaire, an educational history form, a parent followup survey, and an employer survey were used to gather data. Among results were that the jobs held by deaf Ss did not require the use of…

The paper describes a variety of analytical difficulties facing prospective users of the first follow-up of the National Center for Education Statistics National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) and suggests some possible approaches to coping with these. The primary focus is on the causes and consequences of selective…

More than 1000 persons were located more than 12 years after taking the Kuder Occupational Survey. Fifty-one percent were employed in occupations consistent with their early interest profiles. These people did not report greater job satisfaction or success but did show greater continuance in their occupational career. (Author/SE)

Graduate students in counseling were given intensive training in Zuk's method and then applied it with emotionally disturbed children. Two years after therapy, compared with untreated children, treated children were more likely to be in public school class, or employed, and had less court involvement. (Author)

Results of the current study of 1976 data indicate that although the advantage in favor of counseled applicants being placed was somewhat less in fiscal year 1976 than in fiscal year 1973, counseled applicants' percentage-of-placement rate was still higher than that for all applicants in general. (Author)

For availability, see EC 103 546. Investigated in a study which followed 135 children from age 2 into first grade was the hypothesis that "authoritarian" styles of child rearing will lead to more home and school problems than will "accomodative" styles. (Author/IM)

Evaluates the effects of school desegregation on children's prejudice, self-esteem, and achievement, in terms of predictions made by social scientists in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. (BD)

Eighteen language-impaired and 18 articulation-impaired children, were followed up with respect to communication skills and educational performance 13 to 20 years after their initial contact with the speech and hearing clinic. (Author)

A followup survey of Pennsylvania eighth grade students previously inventoried for agricultural interest indicated that those students who later enrolled in high school vocational agriculture courses had shown higher interest scores on the inventory. Both sets of data are compared, with implications for vocational agriculture counseling. (MF)

The Ramak Interest Inventory, together with an occupational choice satisfaction (OCS) inventory, was administered to 158 males and 202 females who had responded to the Ramak seven years before. Results of the study show congruence correlated positively with males' and females' OCS. (Author)

As more adolescent unmarried mothers decide to keep their babies, social service agencies need to reevaluate their programs to meet changing needs. This study examines the living situations, educational and employment status, and interpersonal relationships of 30 adolescent unmarried mothers to determine the services they themselves thought they…

Describes a longitudinal study of recurrent client involvement with the child welfare system. Analysis of frequency and correlates of case-reopening in a sample of 612 cases (many involving foster care) revealed that one-third of all closed cases were reopened. Predictors were child's age, racial and religious background and prior agency…

A follow-up evaluation of three year-long junior college leadership programs at Auburn University (Alabama) showed the strengths of the program to be the competent staff, simulated community college problems, and field trips. (RT)

A discussion of the findings of a recent follow-up study of children who had participated in one of fourteen infant or preschool experimental programs during the 1960's. (BD)