A study investigated changes in recognition time for short sentences presented on television screens of varying sizes with viewers at varying distances. In a posttest only control group design, subjects in several different groups viewed a series of similar sentences under conditions where screen size and distance from the screen were varied. The…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teacher behavior and student achievement in the Bereiter-Engelmann program. Ten groups were observed in the first study, 24 groups in the second. All teachers were rated on four occasions using a highly specific rating scale. The pre- and postmeasures were criterion-referenced.…

The racial attitudes of a group of white entering university freshmen were compared to those of their parents. The Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) developed to measure the attitudes of whites toward blacks, was administered to 229 incoming white freshmen at the University of Maryland and 78 of their parents during a summer orientation session.…

This study reexamines admissions policies and procedures at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and determines how to more accurately forecast how many applicants will matriculate. A questionnaire similar to one used in the 1968 study was sent to 1,255 new freshmen for the fall of 1972 who did not appear. From this number, 764 responses were…

Statistics on the allotment of funds and descriptions of activities carried out under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1972 are reported. Details are provided for activities in the categories of (1) research project support, (2) national and international programs, (3) research applications, (4) science education research…

Reported were estimates of the uncorrected binocular visual acuity levels of distance and near for children aged 6 to 11 years in the noninstitutional population of the United States in relation to their demographic and socioeconomic background. A sample of 7,119 children participated in the Health Examination Survey program of 1963-65. Findings…

Research and development activities during 1971 of the Computer Assisted Instruction Center at Florida State University are summarized in this report. Discussions of activities are grouped under sponsorship categories: the research areas and project efforts which are described under the sponsorship category of the Office of Naval Research are…

Research projects sponsored by the Coordinating Research Council, Air Pollution Research Advisory Committee, and dealing with vehicle emissions and their wide ranging effects on the environment are compiled in this status report. Spanning the range of problems associated with reducing emissions, they are divided into three main areas of research:…

This report is a result of evaluation of the status of science education in the United States with suggested recommendations for the future role of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The overriding theme of the report for the future is summarized as "to educate scientists who will be at home in society and to educate a society that will be at…

The purpose of this workshop was to critically examine projects of nine young sociologists and social psychologists who were finalists in the small-grant program for new PhDs sponsored by the Committee on Basic Research in Education (COBRE). Since the awardees who attended the workshop had no prior training or research experience directly related…

THE WORK OF THE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION OF SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DURING 1966 IS REPORTED. THE PROGRESS OF VARIOUS STUDIES AND ACTIVITIES DISCUSSED IN THE REPORT WERE ADVANCED PROGRAMING, INFORMATION PROCESSING RESEARCH, PROGRAMING SYSTEMS, DATA BASE SYSTEMS. LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL, BEHAVIORAL GAMING AND SIMULATION…

THIS RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-CONCEPT OF ABILITY TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS BASED ON THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK COMMONLY IDENTIFIED AS THE SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONAL THEORY OF BEHAVIOR. THE BASIC POSTULATE WAS THAT ACADEMIC BEHAVIOR OR SCHOOL LEARNING IS LIMITED BY THE STUDENT'S SELF-CONCEPT OF HIS ABILITY, AND THAT…

An experimental treatment approach to teaching alcoholics controlled drinking utilizing a multi-modal treatment approach is presented. This approach included aversion conditioning contingent upon emission of such undesirable drinking behaviors as gulping, drinking straight drinks, Blood Alcohol Level of 0.065 or greater, and time between drinks.…

This series of studies was concerned with developmental changes in memory organization. Denney & Ziobrowski's (1972) "complementary-similarity" shift with age in the bases of encoding for memory was investigated with two new paradigms which assessed memory performance for the same stimulus materials within the same subjects. No evidence was found…

Sex differences in language development were studied. Protocols from 54 children, aged 2;0 to 4;2, were analyzed with Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) as the independent variable. When MLU's reached 3.75 to 4.0, differences began to favor girls. Results are discussed in terms of a social learning model and a cognitive model. (Author)