The study examines the rates and types of school bus accidents according to the age of the school bus driver. Accident rates in North Carolina for the school year 1971-72 were analyzed using three sources of data: accident reports, driver and mileage data, and questionnaires administered to a sample of school bus drivers. Data were obtained on…

This report presents a study of the living patterns of California's migrant labor families, one part of a national study on the identification of life patterns among relatively disadvantaged families. Data were collected from 169 interviews with homemakers randomly selected from 12 state-owned migrant camps in California. The interviews consisted…

To determine some of the factors associated with clothing habits and attitudes and their relationship to social participation among persons 65 years of age and older, personal interviews were conducted with 100 white people, 65 and older. The possible association between the extent of participation and other variables such as attitudes, habits,…

The program to provide basic health information and skills for older persons was sponsored by the city of Palo Alto with the cooperation of 14 health agencies. Weekly morning classes featured 12 topics ranging from exercise to coping with cancer and were presented by health professionals in as nontechnical a manner as possible. The classes were…

Attending the Institute on March 21-23, 1974 in Nogales (Arizona) were 300 or more administrators, state department officials, project coordinators, teachers, university professors, citizens, and students from throughout the state. Following the central theme, "Education for the 70's", the institute's goal was to "impact the…

Participation in outdoor recreation was the focus of this 1963 study involving 776 families representing a cross section of the urban and rural population of southern Ohio and nearby areas of West Virginia and Kentucky. The study was conducted to determine relationships between participation and characteristics in order to advise private…

An evaluation study of the Family Service Program of the Essex County (New York) Division of Home Economics is focused on the third series of lessons; the purposes of the study were to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the indigenous program aides and the participants and to show the influence of training for teaching this series of…

Descriptions of the program title, its administering agency, legislative authorization, main purpose, target population, funding, stipends, programs and facilities, administration and coordination, enrollee characteristics, course and teacher characteristics, course outcome, program measurement, and recommendations (if any) for improvement are…

An attempt is made to state unique elements of the Small College Program at Brooklyn. The book explains that few opportunities are available to older adults, that "small" is used to describe the class size (20) which is responsible for the primary group atmosphere created, and that admission is based on criteria, such as experience and interests,…

A study was made of a noncredit home economics program presented by the University of Wisconsin Extension over the statewide Educational Telephone Network (ETN). The study was limited to the total population involved in one program (54) and their immediate reaction to that program. Methodology used was a combination of action research and field…

To determine what types of services Valencia Community College's Downtown Multipurpose Center should provide for the community, a questionnaire was either mailed or administered to members of community youth groups, black community leaders, women leaders, and senior citizens. The responses were key punched, tabulated, and calculated. The results…

This document reports on one of a series of three surveys conducted on behalf of the Commission on Non-Traditional Study. The chief purpose of this study is to describe in detail the potential market for adult learning. A second general purpose is to analyze the learning activities of men and women who are engaged in adult learning. To gather this…

A study was conducted to evaluate parents' reactions to and utilization of the Child Development Center (CDC) sponsored by OEO for its Washington, D.C. based employees. Interviews were conducted with all 43 users of the CDC (22 OEO employees and 21 employees of other Federal agencies) and with 137 other OEO employees who are parents of young…

A study was undertaken of organization development (OD) programs, from the point of view of the organization members who plan and conduct them, to gain information for meaningful planning by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). A questionnaire was returned by 103 of 450 randomly selected OD practitioners. Most respondents had…

An evaluation of the Job Opportunities in the Business Sectors (JOBS) program revealed that JOBS should be continued as a Federally assisted manpower program since it has demonstrated a viable role for business in manpower training. As a result of JOBS disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons have been elevated above poverty income…