Since 1958, the California Youth Authority has undertaken a wide diversity of research projects which span the range of activities in which the department is involved. These include program evaluation and development, measurement and classification, followup studies, and experimentally designed demonstration projects. Studies have been directed at…

This paper reports the results of a retrospective study of the 3-year Head Start Planned Variation (HSPV) experience. The long-term residual effects of HSPV's effort to install and implement educational models in various communities are discussed with emphasis on the effects on the models and sponsors themselves. Six models were studied: Bank…

This report contains tables pertinent to the first three chapters of Volume I of "Stability and Change: A Study of Selected Students Entering Central YMCA Community College, 1969-72." Included are tables from Central YMCA Community College records on the target population, tables from the response group questionnaires, and tables of…

The performance of students who transferred from Harrisburg Area Community College (H.A.C.C.), Pennsylvania to 56 4-year colleges and universities in 1966 is evaluated in this study. Building on data provided during a previous study on success of transfer students after an initial semester of work, this study follows their performance during the…

To isolate certain socioeconomic and academic characteristics of postsecondary vocational and technical education graduates and dropouts, which should enable students to receive more effective counseling and training, 210 graduates of Oklahoma State Tech were sent questionnaires before and after graduation. Questionnaires were returned by 187…

A day treatment school program is described in terms of its objectives and educational program. Psychoeducational teaching is used with the emotionally disturbed children who attend in hopes of: (1) modifying their behavior; (2) increasing their academic achievement; and (3) returning to a regular classroom. In determining outcome results of the…

This report, an expansion on "The Interim Report: Research of the New Nursery School," is presented in three sections. The first section examines the test results of 29 children enrolled in the New Nursery School (NNS, for academically handicapped, low income Mexican-Americans) and the REN school (similar to the NNS but for children whose parents…

This publication provides data for planning and assessing the education of secondary level students in Hawaii. Three sections are included: (1) General Information on Secondary Students; (2) Plans After Graduation, Class of 1969; and (3) Followup Survey of 1968 High School Graduates. Section One includes discussions of enrollments,…

This study explores the career development of women during the five year period after high school, examining the determinants of that development and presenting data which may provide a basis for better vocational guidance and a theory of occupational choice in women. The study employs longitudinal data from the Project TALENT data bank and 17,009…

A review of NASA Federal Management Intern (MI) programs indicates potential for identification, attraction, and early development of successful administrative management employees, but suggests that successful development of managers is a function of the long-term care with which an agency pursues MI programs. A recent study of separations in…

Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, workshops for trainers of trainers of teachers in adult basic education were held in the summer of 1965 at the Universities of New Mexico, Maryland, and Washington. Administrators, supervisors, university faculty, and teachers (155 in all) were trained; each workshop had its own approach and developed its own…

An eight year followup study of 300 randomly selected newly-registered students at the General College of the University of Minnesota is presented. The aim of the study was to determine the worth to student and taxpayer of extending higher education to those of lower-than-average college abilities. Interviews concerning academic abilities,…

Evaluation of Head Start has been based on four sources of information: (1) census surveys of children and families served and programs offered, (2) special research, projects on child development and experimental programs, (3) a longitudinal study of the development of low income children, and (4) a series of national evaluation studies.…

As part of a statewide followup study of all students who entered a community college in the fall of 1970, a questionnaire was mailed in April 1974 to the 3,615 students who had entered Montgomery Community College in fall 1970. Twenty percent of the questionnaires were nondeliverable; thus, 2,890 students received the questionnaire, and of these,…

The study had three purposes: to obtain information concerning the careers of graduates of the Department of Agricultural Education at Texas A and M to be utilized in counseling, to obtain information pertinent to curriculum improvement, and to provide information for improving placement services. Data from a questionnaire sent to 208 former…