Cherokee students at the Qualla Boundary started a student organization in 1973 to improve educational prospects among Native Americans attending non-Indian colleges and universities. Because cultural conflict was perceived as playing a crucial role in the failure of Cherokee students in higher education, a major objective of the group was to…

Intended to assist students and faculty members in locating materials on the life and culture of Mexican Americans or Chicanos found in the Library at the University of California at Santa Barbara, this guide cites 772 books, curriculum development guides, and government publications, published between 1917 and 1970. The guide does not cite the…

The effects of the financial aid reform introduced in Sweden in the mid-1960s were assessed, with emphasis placed on possible effects on young people from lower socioeconomic strata. The study group is a nationally representative sample of persons born in 1948, who were also studied in 1961 in relation to background, interests, aptitudes, and…

The Citizen Me Level Six guide incorporates the project's goal of providing a curriculum which integrates concepts of basic citizenship education with community involvement through gaining an understanding of rights, liberties, and obligations of citizens, developing an awareness of outcomes identified in crime and drug education, understanding…

A handbook designed to assist Chinese students and scholars who are planning an extended stay on a U.S. college or university campus is presented. The guide includes a brief overview of the U.S. postsecondary education system, with attention focused on study, not research opportunities. The following topics are addressed: passports and visas for…

In fall 1980, a survey was conducted to determine the background characteristics, enrollment patterns, academic goals, and perceptions of students enrolled in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) and to gather information of specific relevance to the individual campuses. The study sample of 14,198 students represented 10% of the…

Literature on Chicano students in American higher education is reviewed and criticized. The following topics are addressed: the difficulty of defining "Chicano;" problems in working with Chicano census data; the United State Chicano population in terms of age, family size, as a percentage of all United States Hispanics, and geographical…

The Utah Pupil/Teacher Self-Concept Program is designed to train teachers in the use of verbal behaviors that improve the self concept of students by replacing judgmental statements with positive descriptive messages. The program is based on a successful prototype used with elementary school teachers. Four individualized modules were developed to…

A study explored how an ecological perspective in human development, as conceptualized by Urie Bronfenbrenner, could be used as an analytic framework for discerning patterns of relationships among the environments of home, school, and work and resulting implications for youth development. Three hypotheses were tested regarding how linking youth…

This technical report details all phases of a study to explore how an ecological perspective in human development, as conceptualized by Urie Bronfenbrenner, could be used as an analytic framework for discerning patterns of relationships among the environments of home, school, and work and resulting implications for youth development. (A summary is…

Although many social indicators suggest that problems exist among the American Indian population for which counseling and mental health services should be provided, there are relatively few American Indian counselors in the conventional mental health system or in schools; therefore, the training of non-Indian counselors who work among American…

Educational dissemination is a way to foster changes in educational practice. Peer interaction is a special type of dissemination in which people with certain roles and responsibilities help others with the same or similar roles and responsibilities. This involves teachers helping teachers, principals helping principals, business representatives…

After examining societal factors that shape the role of vocational education, this paper presents instructional delivery and faculty development models designed to meet the vocational education needs of contemporary society. The report first identifies, as part of a model for educational viability, three forces affecting vocational programming:…

For a 1979 study of occupational division of labor in rural areas, in-depth interviews conducted with 541 randomly selected respondents from 4 Virginia counties examined socio-demographic parameters (age, sex, race, and occupation); degree of involvement in multiple job holding; economic and social-psychological motives for participation in…

The purpose of this study was to assess the magnitude of teacher concerns using the Teacher Concerns Checklist. Correlates of concerns of elementary and secondary teachers with varying levels of experience were identified from four major sources: (1) direct classroom observations; (2) pupil, peer, and supervisor ratings; (3) self report ratings…