The first in a series of annual interim reports on the federally funded Experimental Schools (ES) program, this report describes the first 2 years of a 6-year research program designed to promote locally-initiated comprehensive educational change dependent upon community participation, with provision for systematic documentation and evaluation.…

AAMC data describing medical education institutions were analyzed in order to raise researchable questions for subsequent examination. A suitable multivariate method was selected and its applicability tested. The method chosen was multiple factor analysis, which analyzes the pattern of correlations among large sets of variables. Variables were…

This booklet presents papers and discussion group reports from a workshop convened by the Council of Europe to investigate research problems concerned with compensatory education for the socioculturally disadvantaged at the preschool and primary levels. Researchers from 11 countries participated in the workshop. The papers and reports, written in…

This paper presents a schema developed to investigated story recall in elementary school children, and describes the results of a study which tested the schema with first and fifth graders. The story schema, a theoretical model which formally defines the types of strategies, operations, and structures inherent in the processor of story…

Reviewing sociological theories relative to youth aspiration research, the following thesis was presented: "pre-path analysis aspiration research was characterized by a person-centered, middle-range functionalist approach which eventually shifted to a person-centered, functionalist-system approach with the introduction of the path model…

The textbook, written for first year law students and for paralegals, or legal assistants, attempts to break down the components of legal research and writing and to identify effective starting points for these activities. It was designed for use in a classroom setting or on-the-job as a dictionary/reference source. The first part, Legal Research,…

Approximately 19,156 first term airmen (4,156 females and 15,000 males) were subjects of an Air Force study to determine if indicating three Air Force specialty (AFS) preferences, and subsequently being assigned to one of the job preferences selected, made any difference in job satisfaction. Three factors were analyzed: (1) reenlistment intent,…

This is a review of studies designed to assess the attributes of teacher-student interaction predicted to be correlated with student achievement. The paper includes: (1) a summary review of the types of teacher characteristics found to be correlated with student achievement and attitude; (2) a summary of the research done using the Flanders…

This paper reports a research design guided by the hypothesis that adult constraint and peer cooperation exert conflicting forces on the development of racial awareness attitudes of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. Subjects were 60 preschoolers from Tennessee, with an equal number of white and black children at each age. Methodology used was a modified…

A conceptual model of learning environments and the procedures necessary for its investigation are proposed. It is argued that a research agenda involving longitudinal, comparative case-study designs and using field-method techniques is the only method capable of generating a solid base of information on the relationship between structural…

The paper examines the methodological issues involved in the relationship of adult education to adult development. The practice of adult education during the past 25 years has been built upon a series of assumptions derived from theoretical fragments regarding lifelong development. Considering the theoretical base of adult development, however,…

This study was undertaken to provide information on the perceptions of the ethnic minority group member participants of the National Multi-Cultural Institute Conference relative to career education. A Career Education Inventory was developed to gather the opinions of the 400 participants about career education. The group included members of…

The study was undertaken to identify the kinds of information that the Oklahoma public wants about vocational education. Two data collection methodologies were used, the Delphi Technique and task force procedure. Participants were 240 volunteers from a statewide master list of 653 persons selected as representative. After four meetings the task…

The document is the second volume of a four-part report of a study conducted to evaluate and assess the national state of clinical education and training of allied health manpower. It contains the appended materials of the study and includes the following: (1) approach and mechanisms of the study--selected occupations, areas of inquiry,…

This book explores the possibilities in a new approach to educational analysis--a fusion of methods drawn from economics, sociology, and social psychology. The author combines his explanation of socioeconomic analysis with the presentation of several examples that illustrate the application of his method to different analytical problems. The book…