This study reports the higher educational needs of the persons living in lower west Florida counties from Manatee to Collier, identifies the most feasible course of action to meet those needs and assesses the consequences ensuing from adding to the state university system. Chapters cover access to public higher education, expansion of the state…

Results of information derived from 120 household interviews in Model Cities Neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia in November and December, 1971 are presented. The primary purpose of the project was to provide data to the Neighborhood Continuing Education Program in Savannah as concerns "felt" needs and attitudes of residents it endeavors to serve.…

This study investigated what professional educators believe are the appropriate bases for judging the effectiveness of the teacher. A random sample of all public school teachers and administrators (N=264) in the state of Delaware were instructed to rate each of 16 criteria "according to its importance in determining teacher effectiveness." The…

Reported was an explanatory conceptual model for pathological left-handedness (PLH) and related hypotheses, some of which could not be tested empirically due to lack of information. The model was reported to provide an explanation for the relationship between handedness and specific learning disability, and handedness and cerebral dominance for…

This study determined if the effects of specific training in teaching strategies conducted as a part of the preservice program persisted through the first year of teaching. The subjects were first-year home economics teachers who had been a part of a previous study involving the training. They tape-recorded ten lessons. The variety of teaching…

This investigator found and reviewed fifty-one studies reported in the literature on individualized reading between 1937 and 1971. Of this number, forty of these studies were controlled at least to the extent of using control groups. In twenty-four cases the results favored the individualized reading group. Only one author reported higher reading…

A 2-phase project has been undertaken to develop a research and development planning system which consists of (1) a systematic procedure to formulate research projects, and (2) a systematic procedure to guide the selection of a subset of projects. Phase 1 of the project involves the development of a meta model which is based on a modular concept…

This compilation of research in agricultural education contains abstracts of studies completed during 1970-71 in the American Vocational Association Southern Region. The abstracts are arranged alphabetically by author and include the purpose, methodology, and findings. Studies are available on loan from university libraries and departments. In…

This compilation of research in agricultural education contains abstracts of studies completed during 1970-71 in the American Vocational Association Pacific Region. The abstracts are arranged alphabetically by author and include the purpose, methodology, and findings. Studies are available for loan from university libraries or departments. In…

The terminal progress report of the Socio-Behavioral Study Center for Mental Retardation summarizes research activities and results of the Center's three major programs. The Community Research Program studied the epidemiological aspects of mental retardation in the community, including identification and classification of retardates, investigation…

The annotated bibliography formed by this and SE 013 620 is an extensive reference source for educators and researchers who teach and study secondary school mathematics. This volume lists 780 research reports found in the ERIC records and in 59 journals published in the United States from 1930 through 1970. The studies are listed under…

This final report discusses the principal goals and achievements of the journal project "Language and Language Behavior Abstracts" during 1971. The objectives during this grant period were increasing income, improving the scholarly qualities of the journal, reducing operating costs where possible, and improving accessibility to scholars. Problems…

When categorized into one of two groups, subjects preferred information indicating ingroup similarity and outgroup dissimilarity. When categorized into a single group, subjects preferred maximum information about others regardless of content. No preference occurred when subjects were not categorized into a group. Thus, preferred information…

Performance on complex (Space Relations and Verbal Reasoning) and simple (Digit Symbol) tests was investigated as a function of Byrne's Repression-Sensitization (RS) dimension, phase of menstrual cycle and premenstrual-menstrual (PM) symptomatology in a group of females not taking oral contraceptives. Two control groups, consisting of males and…

A follow-up study was conducted in 1972 among 105 ex-campers in Florida who had been out of the therapeutic situation for at least a year. From the ratings of competent judges, working independently with information from interview reports and records of the behaviors of the ex-campers, it was found that 70% were improved to some degree, and 42%…