The study compares the problems perceived by leader, non-leader, and deviant adolescents. A total of 2,948 secondary school students in the West Vancouver School District, British Columbia, were divided into three behavior groups and an analysis was made of the problems checked on the Mooney Problem Check List (MPCL) by members of each group. The…

The relationship between trial-to-trial changes in free recall and eight intelligence and memory abilities was investigated in a sample of 72 college students. Despite identical acquisition curves under immediate and delayed recall, differences between the two groups in correlational pattern between recall performance and abilities were striking.…

The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of sexist attitudes among male university students. A Situational Attitude Scale of ten personal or social situations with some relevance to a sex related response and 100 bipolar semantic differential word scales was created. Two forms of the instrument, each containing the same situations,…

This publication is intended to present science teachers with an opportunity to communicate to students the idea that science is an ongoing and never-ending process. The booklet contains supplemental materials, valuable as enrichment materials. A selection of ongoing research in the biological sciences, physics and astronomy, oceanography,…

This document highlights the activities and accomplishments of the Puerto Rican Research and Curriculum Development Coordinating Unit during the 1971-72 year. The Unit includes the following components: (1) Educational Research, (2) Curriculum Development, (3) Information and Dissemination, and (4) Planning and Evaluation. Included is information…

This paper presents a research method derived from the functional analysis of behavior currently common among operant behavior therapists. Naturalistic observation, the method used, encompasses behavioral-level description of events, systematic observation and recording by means of codes, assessment of inter-judge reliability, as well as targeting…

The study was designed to determine the effect of T-group experience on an individual's perceived level of personal functioning. An experimental group of eight counselor trainees, who received a T-group experience for an academic quarter, was compared with a control group of eight students, comparable in age and experience who were enrolled in a…

This report, developed by the Committee on the Education and Employment of Women in the University, presents the results of a survey of Stanford seniors and makes recommendations on how the university can end discrimination and provide more opportunities for women. Data were the result of a survey of 280 graduating seniors. The survey was designed…

This document is the first of three reports designed to provide information on the student at Stony Brook. The academic and nonacademic student life at Stony Brook is discussed in relationship to the entering students; academic life; the social and psychological dimensions; the residences; the services and peer helping; women undergraduates;…

The 1968 summer conference of the Speech Association of America (now the Speech Communication Association) was concerned with developments in speech communication research, with primary focus on the recommendations of the February New Orleans conference (ED 028 164), cosponsored by SAA and the U. S. Office of Education. The summer conference…

This monograph reports an exploratory study of legislative behavior in the field of education. The study sampled a large number of legislators' rollcall votes involving educational policy under various conditions of partisanship. The specific objectives of the study were to (1) determine the changes that occur in patterns of rollcall voting on…

This annual summary provides information about research and development projects which have been conducted under contract to the Manpower Administration. This report differs from previous ones in that it has been expanded to include development projects in addition to the research projects. Projects in progress at the end of the 1971 fiscal year…

Proceedings of a 3-day working conference in Stockholm on educational research for the visually handicapped are presented, with five reports on research activities conducted by participating groups and five introductory papers. Research projects reviewed include information on research activities at the Research Centre for the Education of the…

This monograph is the first of a series summarizing the work progress of the Human Services Manpower Career Center, a special research and development project funded by the U. S. Department of Labor. During its first 2 years of operation, the Center has: (1) undertaken basic occupational research to identify the human services occupations in the…

During the first three phases of the Human Services Mobility Study covering the period October 1967 through March 1972, the project concentrated on: (1) the analysis of needs and potentials for upward mobility in the health industry in New York City, (2) the development of a systems-based methodology to create job and curriculum ladders in the…