FOLLOWUP STUDIES WERE MADE ON 312 NEGRO CHILDREN, APPROXIMATELY ONE FIFTH OF A SAMPLE OF 1800 STUDENTS TESTED IN A PREVIOUS STUDY. THEY REPRESENTED A STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE OF RURAL, URBAN, AND METROPOLITAN AREAS OF A SOUTHERN STATE. INSTRUMENTS USED FOR SCORING INCLUDED THE STANFORD-BINET, THE CALIFORNIA ACHIEVEMENT TEST, AND THE GOODENOUGH…

This study investigates the interaction of three cognitive (functional, constructive, dramatic) and three social (solitary, parallel, group) dimensions of free play activities and their stability over time among boys and girls in a preschool setting. Subjects were 18 children attending a university preschool in Southwestern Ontario. Data for each…

The primary purpose of this monograph is to describe the relationship between adolescent personality and the educational and vocational development of young adults, criteria for the latter being developed from the Project TALENT follow-up studies. This relationship seeking is set in a context of career development theory and a concern for guidance…

This is a study of student opinion on the preparation at Los Angeles City College for transfer to the University of California at Los Angeles. Nine LACC counselors interviewed 58 transfer students; these same students plus 101 others also answered a questionnaire. Most of those interviewed had been at the University less than a year; those reached…

Of 219 people interviewed within a week of the broadcast of the miniseries "Roots," 104 people were reinterviewed one year later to determine the program's long-term effects, including its perceived and experienced impact on race relations in the United States and its stimulation of viewers to search for their own roots/heritage and to…

Brown and Barclay (1976) trained educable retarded children to use either of two memory search strategies, Anticipation or Rehearsal, involving a self-checking component. Following the training, both their free recall performance and their ability to estimate their readiness for a recall test improved significantly. In the present research, the…

This report is Part 1 of the Advisory Commission's second assessment of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; the first assessment took place in 1970. The purpose of this report is to determine how well the block grant has worked since that time and what statutory and administrative changes are desirable. The report is divided…

Described is the development of a computer-based survey system for providing followup information on 202 former special education students. Among topics addressed are the construction of a student master file, use of telephone interviews, development of the survey instrument (including interviews with teachers and administrators and pilot testing…

Field-tested procedures to collect followup data on former students of vocational education programs are described in the document. The procedures presented are designed to facilitate the collection, analysis, and reporting of information on jobs obtained and their relationship to training programs, and the income, geographic mobility, and the…

A descriptive study for the state of Oklahoma was conducted to follow up the career choices of those high school students who had earlier responded with biology careers as their educational aspiration. A questionnaire was sent to these students. Over 70 percent of the respondents in higher education had changed their majors. More changed to…

This project was conducted to assess the condition of followup studies throughout the state and to develop an instrument for gathering data relative to the employment and educational status of former students of the community colleges and technical institutes in the North Carolina system. Data-gathering instruments and existing data from the…

This description of the Motivational Procedures workshop deals with the problem of low motivational levels of students at all grade levels. The objectives of the workshop included creating awareness of the problem, testing motivation principles, determining through feedback the effectiveness of materials, and developing assessment instruments. The…

Forty-seven (51.1 percent) of the 92 graduates of the Dental Hygiene program completed a questionnaire designed to provide feed-back information concerning activities of program graduates. Results indicated that: (1) Practically all graduates were employed as Dental Hygienists, with most sharing their time among two or more offices; (2) Daily…

The endeavor described in this report was designed to fill the need of providing accurate, comprehensive data on the total number of county graduates by systematizing the process of collecting, organizing, summarizing, and disseminating informational data on the Baltimore County high school graduate. This report is organized into five chapters.…

In establishing a research base for the accreditation of teacher preparation programs, the present standards, as established in the "Recommended Standards for Teacher Education" (ED 037 423) of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), should be developed into a set of multiple standards to fit diverse programs and…