The purpose of this study is to determine whether an individualized spelling program will produce better spellers than a program using the traditional spelling workbook. (Author)

A rationale is suggested for designing and developing education and training programs in labor relations for hospital managements. Also, federal work stoppage data are identified as they relate to medical and other health services. (AG)

The purpose of the present study was to use factor analysis to demonstrate relationships among aptitude, intelligence, personality, and performance in various high school subjects. (Editor)

The present study was designed to examine the construct validity, reliability, item difficulties, discrimination indices, effectiveness and efficiency of the CCAT test. (Author)

Reference statistics were collected and analyzed for a three-year period from Fall 1975 to Summer 1976 at the Pennsylvania State University Main Undergraduate Library. Reference questions were classified and recorded in three categories: (1) search, (2) ready reference, and (3) directional. Hour of question, interlibrary loan, book, and telephone…

S(L)EA--Significant (Learning) Event Analysis--is a self-reflection and evaluation instrument, which has as its primary components critical incident analysis, Q sort, and optional systems of interpreting the data. It is a systematic, flexible approach to access learning, intended to be useful to adult education researchers in examining adult…

The sharply drawn distinction between research and evaluation, and the equally sharp distinction between the carefully controlled laboratory-type experiment and the study occurring in the field, are seen as arbitrary and not very helpful. In illustrating this thesis, the author develops a design generally regarded as a "research" design…

This document discusses social survey research in which the need for identification of respondents may bring social research into conflict with the law and social custom. The paper deals with two features of the conflict--the products of such research, and the way in which privacy of the respondent can be assured regardless of the product. The…

The present study analyzed patient reported wants in a college-student population from the viewpoint of both patients and their therapist. (Author)

The problems of information handling in education and a description of the techniques used to meet some of these problems are discussed. (Editor/KE)

This study is a follow-up of an unpublished dissertation study completed in 1964 focusing on the moral attitudes that adolescents develop through interaction with the adult community as well as their peer groups. (Author/RK)

This article reports the findings of a study designed to determine how secondary school principals rated their school systems. Since space limitations precluded publishing the entire report, you may wish to contact the authors for additional information. (Editor)

To present a detailed description of what school superintendents actually do, not what they perceive themselves doing or what they ought to do, this project utilized unstructured, nonparticipant observation of six superintendents on the job. Four trained observers recorded the administrators' activities throughout every minute of the workday for…

Inferences made in integrative research reviews are as important to the validity of behavioral science knowledge as are those in primary research. The research review is conceptualized as a scientific inquiry involving five stages paralleling those of primary research. Problem formulation is the stage when variables are defined conceptually and…