This bibliography lists 132 articles, books, handbooks, and research reports concerning distance education in Papua New Guinea. All but one were published between 1970 and 1992. It was compiled through a questionnaire sent to staff members of distance education institutions as well from reports submitted at meetings of the Papua New Guinea…

An approach to research that was conceptualized with the idea of replicating one study in dozens of locations simultaneously is described, focusing on two research projects with simultaneous replication. In 1988 researchers in 85 locations collected data in 276 schools as part of the Phi Delta Kappa Study of Schools At Risk. In 1982, data were…

This booklet brings together one-page to two-page abstracts from research poster sessions held at a conference on learning disabilities. The 17 research abstracts are presented within four poster session categories: (1) research on assessment and characteristics of students with learning disabilities (with abstracts on handwriting, mainstreaming…

This report summarizes the findings of a research project involving a consortium of American art museums that joined forced to understand themselves better from the perspective of their visitors. The project had three objectives: (1) to identify staff expectations and impressions of public expectations about art museums; (2) to evaluate public…

Research studies conducted in Canada are emphasized in this annotated bibliography of adult education research conducted from 1983-1988, although a few studies from the United States and England are included. The entries, arranged in alphabetical order by author's last name, are in English and, occasionally, French. (CML)

The realistic competency and activity scales of the Self-Directed Search were revised to learn if women's scores on these scales could be increased without reducing their concurrent and construct validity for men and women. Results indicate the revisions increase women's realistic scores, but fail to affect their high point codes. (Author)

Male freshmen entering the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, during the fall semester 1969 were administered the SVIB and Minnesota Counseling Inventory. The resulting data were compared to college students not majoring in engineering. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to compare the personality characteristics of two groups of soldiers confronted with substantial war stress and to examine the similarities between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of Israeli and American soldier psychiatric casualities and a comparable group of medical controls. Results are…

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale was administered to 30 male criminally insane patients and 15 violent convicts. The latter had similar subtest score configurations and the mean similarities ratio score for the violent group was significantly lower than that of the nonviolent group. (Author/SE)

Stress has been hypothesized to be both a negative and a positive prognostic factor. Stress was examined in relation to total symptomatology as rated by the patient and a significant other and to five symptom factors. This was accomplished at the time a patient was hospitalized and one year subsequently. (Author)

Twenty-two mothers participated in a principle-oriented consultation group and then answered a number of questionnaires before and after consultation. Data show that the experimental group differed significantly from the control group on 13 out of 16 variables after consultation. (SE)

This exploratory study compared the response patterns of two groups of counselors experienced in crisis intervention. One group (N=5) was trained according to the Rusk model and the other (N=5) in the brief, focal therapy approach. With the exception of explicit empathy, no between-group differences in frequency of intervention were found. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship of locus of control to the ideal and real occupational aspirations of adolescent females. Significant association was found between locus of control and ideal occupational aspiration and between locus of control and the presence or absence of discrepancy between ideal and real occupational aspiration.…

Ten weeks of assertion training was provided to eight mental hospital paraprofessionals. These trained subjects served as either counselor or counselee in a microcounseling session with eight paraprofessionals who were untrained in assertion training. Assertion-trained counselors were superior to untrained counselors on a set of…

The effect of race and counselor climate on the preferences of delinquent girls for a counselor is investigated. The findings indicate that the strongest preference for a counselor among delinquent girls was when counseling was related to educational-vocational matters. White subjects preferred the black counselor in terms of the personal-social…