The focus of this inquiry is on the commitment students have to academic achievement. The model on which this analysis is based assumes that student effort in school is the product of several factors relating to parental influences, classroom structure, teacher behavior and peer norms and characteristics. In assessing the possibility of a linkage…

Relatively few studies of job satisfaction have dealt with sex as a significant variable. Recent studies have determined that Maslow's hierarchy of needs has particular application to the work situation and to an examination of sex differences in intrinsic job satisfaction. A questionnaire based on Maslow's hierarchy was sent to all of the 378…

The final report of the Wisconsin project, which developed a coordinated and comprehensive placement system for secondary/postsecondary schools, includes a project summary and evaluation. Both providers and receivers of placement services in Grant, Winneabago, and Racine Counties were surveyed regarding barriers and facilitations in securing…

Part 1 of the project aimed at determining unmet vocational-technical education needs in the State of Maryland which might be met through residential education; Part 2 was designed to study the possible alternatives for meeting the needs discovered and to make recommendations regarding how these could best be met. A summary of Part 1 of the…

Problems encountered in cross-cultural research are discussed in this report which describes a study of the relationship between social class differences and maternal teaching patterns of 2- and 3-year-old children. The study involved a total of 63 mother-child dyads from middle- and working-class groups in Bristol, England and 34 Kuwaiti…

A distinctive model for gathering and sharing information and planning was developed. Essentially, the model is a 90-day issue-identification and solution-planning strategy that can be applied to any concern deemed by a school board and its constituency to be sufficiently critical to warrant involving significant numbers and kinds of persons in…

This paper is concerned with the problem of social inequalities and economic development in rural communities. Two ethnically different communities were chosen in the most southern state of Brazil: Garibaldi, of descendants from Italian immigrants, and Candelaria, of descendants from German immigrants. The data were gathered through application of…

This report focuses on the Study of Allied Health Education (SAHE) project that was established for the purpose of designing an action plan on a national scale for allied health and nursing education. The specific task of the project was the determination of the role that community and junior colleges might fulfill in increasing ambulatory care in…

Because of the pragmatic need of school districts to respond to questions posed by those interested in their efforts to implement career education and the equally practical need to further its definition, there exists a demand to assess the results of efforts to implement the concept. The main body of this monograph provides an operational…

This report describes: (1) a study of desirable kindergarten goals as perceived by the principals, teachers, and parents of Kentucky's 1973-74 pilot kindergarten programs; and (2) a study of the learning needs of entering first-grade pupils as perceived by a structured sample of first-grade teachers in Kentucky. In the first study, data collected…

The pupil personnel services unit goals and student objectives set down in the booklet were produced by one California high school's counseling staff in order to comply with a State legislature mandate for accountability. Behavioral objectives have been set in five domains: the educational, the social/personal, career development, the…

This investigation was an attempt to follow up previous research dealing with the impact of films of successful Negro professionals, who had come from impoverished beginnings, on the self-concept and level of aspiration of Negro youth. Students from three schools saw 12 films of six black professionals and six white professionals on a once-a-week…

This survey of continuing education opportunities for Cooperative Extension personnel in the 13 western states covered four types of leave programs: sabbatical leave, educational or study leave with pay, leave without pay, and official leave used to study. Data were gathered on duration of leave, percentage of normal salary received, years of…

The purpose of this volume is to bring together various materials dealing with the psychological aspects of foreign language learning and bilingualism. The materials have been arranged for the use of persons interested in foreign language "Compensatory Instruction," which involves the notion of adjusting the teaching activities to the needs of…

This final report of an experimental program to test student attitudes describes progressive stages of the program conducted between 1965 and 1969 by the social studies department of the New Rochelle Albert Leonard Junior High School. Most of the time, pupils in the experimental unit were grouped heterogeneously for special presentations such as…