The final part of a five-part series reporting the results of the evaluation of the trial version of the Nuffield A-level Biology Project presents data from a follow-up study of students one year after they completed the trials. Student perception of the objectives of the course is reported, and employer or supervisor comments on strengths and…

Suggestions for communication between the guidance people, the business department, and the students. (Editor)

The concluding article to an interview with parents of handicapped children summarizes the children's current status and implications of the interview. (KW)

Scales of extensiveness and effectiveness were developed from a questionnaire administered immediately before graduation. Neither extensiveness nor effectiveness of reported vocational exploratory behavior were found to be significantly related to the level of final interest crystallization. (Author)

Here, discussed in non-technical language, are four basic principles of evaluation in vocational education. (Editor)

The importance of considering the families' presenting problems as the focal point of management was demonstrated. Family characteristics of social class, referral source, and presenting problems were correlated with the expressed needs. The importance of a continuing diagnostic therapeutic evaluation as a model for management of mental…

Surveyed divorce settlements in Georgia and Washington during 1970 and 1980 to replicate Seal's study of no-fault divorce in California. Findings indicate few substantive changes. With no-fault divorce, alimony was rare, child custody was awarded to mothers, assets tended to be shared, and child support had not decreased. (Author/JAC)

A study was undertaken to determine the extent to which a rehabilitation engineering service met the needs and expectations of 100 patients (or parents of child patients). The patients were interviewed an average of 16 weeks after a new piece of equipment was supplied. (Author)

Follow-up studies are needed to assess the value of vocational education. Much of the assessment research is presently done by persons outside the field. Information is needed so that a shift to studies by those within vocational education can occur. This article presents a survey of selected works related to longitudinal studies. (Author)

Seven mother/newborn pairs, selected for neurological and obstetric optimality of the babies, were observed during two breastfeedings in order to gain insight into the temporal organization of early interaction between healthy babies and their mothers. (MP)

Longitudinal designs and follow-up studies are characteristic of evaluation of vocational education programs. The most commonly used statistical techniques encountered in such designs are described and examples presented using a design setting typical for vocational education. Assumptions and limitations are discussed and references to relevant…

An overview is presented of a project to identify and follow-up visual problems in students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). (Author)

Tn the context of earlier work on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study (which ran from 1935-1945 and involved 325 predelinquent boys and a matched set of controls), J. McCord's recent 30-year follow-up is seen as raising issues with respect to the controlled experiment as a basis for evaluation and study of psychotherapeutic effects. (Author/PHR)