A seven-member research team conducted participant observer field research at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland during the October 15th, 1969, moratorium in order to obtain an account of what transpired on the campus as a whole. The following eight events or places were covered by the researchers: teach-in, classroom area,…

This handbook is designed to illustrate how nine rural schools, along with area postsecondary institutions, planned and implemented guidance and counseling programs and to help others similarly situated to do the same. It contains the ideas, strategies, obstacles, and accomplishments of field test sites in diverse geographic areas. This document…

Tables showing the types of Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) products and their dispersion provide background information for the executive summaries of usage study design reports focusing on three levels: (1) system operations; (2) subscribers to the services provided; and (3) the ultimate "end-users" of the service. The…

Suggested are methods for the collection of field evidence about processes that form plutonic and metamorphic rock. Description and discussion of these types of rocks are provided. The planning and execution of a successful field trip is discussed. Advanced field projects are also discussed. Included are five appendices, references, and a…

Procedures which are used by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc., in developing achievement tests are described; these steps are suggested to be typical of major test publishers. A curricular analysis of fifth grade mathematics textbooks is presented, to illustrate the process which determines which skills and objectives are tested. The…

The activities of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in evaluating educational programs are described. Program evaluations are categorized as needs assessment, formative evaluation, or summative evaluation. Three classic efforts which illustrate the range of ETS' participation are the Pennsylvania Goals Study (1965), the Coleman Report--Equality of…

Guidebook descriptions of the 3000 worldwide adventure trips open to public participation include highlights, itinerary, level of experience necessary, requirements, location, duration, dates, cost, and addresses and telephone numbers of the operating organizations. The guidebook is organized in four major sections and, within each section, into…

THIS REPORT OF A FIELD STUDY DESCRIBES THE 1956 CONFLICT WHICH OCCURRED IN A SMALL KENTUCKY TOWN AS A RESULT OF A SCHOOL DESEGREGATION CRISIS. THE REPORT CONTAINS (1) A SUMMARY OF THE OPINIONS IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT RACE RELATIONS, SPECIFICALLY NEGRO OPINIONS, (2) A DISCUSSION OF THE ATTITUDES OF THE LOCAL PRESS, CIVIC OFFICIALS, LAW ENFORCEMENT…

THIS FIELD REPORT ANALYZES THE CONFLICT WHICH DEVELOPED IN A SMALL TENNESSEE TOWN IN 1956 OVER EFFORTS TO DESEGREGATE THE SCHOOLS. ALONG WITH BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMMUNITY, THE REPORT CONTAINS (1) A CHRONOLOGY OF THE EVENTS, (2) A DISCUSSION OF THE OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES OF THE COMMUNITY ABOUT RACE RELATIONS, DESEGREGATION, AND…

Forty case studies made by research teams of independents or governmental agencies in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States were analyzed to provide managements and trade unions with illustrations of present systems of technical and manpower changes at the enterprise level and to describe the…

The 29 case studies in this report seek to define the policies and practices followed by firms in programing technological change and manpower adjustments. The purpose of the report is to make these policies and practices more broadly known and to extend the range of effective adjustments provided by individual managements. The inquiries were…

The purposes of this exploratory field study were to discover the utility of career-oriented skills and competencies in speech communication as perceived by representatives from employment agencies, to discover current perceptions of the field by representatives from employment agencies, and to discover the bases for these perceptions. The target…

This paper describes an ecological observational study of social interaction and cognitive socialization in family day care. The study employs a reciprocal model which analyzes effects of the caregiver on the child and of the child on the caregiver by comparing the interaction of the same caregiver with "own" and "other"…

The Oral Language Program developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory is intended to disseminate and implement strategies and materials which will improve the teaching of language skills to preschool and primary children with little or no facility in English. The first version of the program, known as Mark I, did not include…

The hypotheses of this field study, conducted in connection with the Teaching Techniques Laboratory at the University of Illinois, were that student teachers who had participated in a supervised, laboratory, microteaching experience would: 1) receive more favorable pupil evaluations of an initial and final teaching effort on the Teacher…