A two-stage nationwide mail survey of medical school graduates of 1965 was designed to provide health planners with better and more current information on physician location determinants. Presented are the findings of that survey that specifically address the problems of identifying location decision factors that seem to differentiate physicians…

Utilizing a 77-item questionnaire, the marketing and credit practices of the Spanish American poor in New Mexico were examined. Randomly selected from the Community Action Program files, approximately 100 households in Las Cruces, the main urban center, and 60 households in the small rural communities of Dona Ana and La Mesa (30 in each) were…

Provided are 11 case studies of gifted students based on materials from the 4 years the student participated in a special program for superior high school students, followup questionnaires from 1, 4, 6, and 10 years after high school graduation, and a personal interview. The studies, organized longitudinally on the basis of a career development…

Holland's theory of vocational choice assumes that most persons can be categorized into six types in accordance with their personality attributes. These six types are: Realistic, Investigative, Social, Conventional, Enterprising and Artistic. From Holland's theory, a high degree of congruence between personality type and occupational choice is…

The ability to recognize questions warranting uncertainty was effectively developed in 167 fourth to sixth graders. A three-year followup evaluation measuring transfer of these skills on hard and soft drug use confirmed that students had developed a skeptical analytic attitude, allowing them to ignore peer and parental dogma about drugs.…

Using Super's Career Pattern Study data, this study investigated the high-school age correlates of occupational stability and change among 148 men between the ages of 25 to 35. Only high-school grades were positively, though weakly, associated with both occupational stability and the degree of vocational progress. (Author)

School psychologists (N=6) structured their teacher consultation according to three consultative modes which varied primarily in the number of follow-up contacts. The findings indicated that follow-up contacts led to greater teacher implementation of recommendations, greater perceived pupil behavior improvement, and greater sense of cooperative…

Results of a questionnaire follow-up study of the employment and educational experiences of the graduates of the experimental Bachelor of Elected Studies (BES) program at Minnesota are reported. In spite of some differences, BES graduates compare favorably with regular liberal arts graduates. (Author/LBH)

Four job-oriented measures for judging school or program effectiveness are compared: (1) placement rate; (2) work-relatedness test; (3) rate of return; and (4) incremental income/cost ratio. The critique is largely based on economic planning literature and empirical data from Maine and Singapore are used. (Author/LBH)

Statistical validation is reported for the Child Care Perceiver Interview instrument, used in employing residential child care workers. Results indicate that the interview is effective in predicting job performance in group care settings and is acceptable in meeting Equal Employment Opportunity requirements. (Author/BB)

Although successful dropout assistance programs depend on effective implementation, casework, and long-term followup activities, the literature only occasionally addresses these practices. This article reviews data collection problems, major risk factors, reforms aimed at actual and potential dropouts, and alternative school programs. Second…

A follow-up study of stress and coping abilities in 45 parents where fathers had participated in a program for fathers of young handicapped children (birth to 5) for 1-3 years revealed a significant decrease in fathers' depression, stress, and grief over time. Both father and mother variables were examined. (Author/JW)

Using College Board file information and a follow-up of 1981 high school graduates, the educational plans, educational outcomes, and other characteristics of students with different combinations of family incomes and test scores were compared in a study of the influence of those factors on educational outcomes. (MSE)

A followup study of Johns Hopkins University students who began college two or more years ahead of their age group examined their academic progress, ages at graduation, majors, course loads, grades, program length, and the progress of a special group of mIl0s identified through a study of mathematically precocious youth. (MSE)