Major strides have been made in the field of youth development. However, youth transitioning into adulthood have not received similar attention. These older youth have frequently been overlooked by policymakers and practitioners who have been more focused on designing programs and services for adolescents and young children. Because older youth…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report results from an evaluation of an online abstract mentoring programme to support early career and less experienced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) researchers improve their chances of acceptance to International HIV/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Conferences. Design/methodology/approach: An…

Technological efficacy is the knowledge, ability, and desire to create, select, apply, monitor, evaluate, communicate, and otherwise bring to fruition desired technology in a given context. This document is a qualitative synthesis of research related to technological efficacy, including exploration of its definition, psychometric properties of…

This bibliography contains 410 annotated citations, in French or English, of research reports, journal articles, monographs, and papers on aspects of language variation. Each citation includes basic bibliographic information, publication type, availability information, an annotation, content classifications, and descriptors. Listings are also…

Addressed are issues and problems of definition that arose in establishing a new scientific journal. Specifically, the problems considered are those confronting the "Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology" (JADP) in its first 5 years of existence. The first matter of definition discussed is the editor's role. Ways in which editorial…

Provides a list of engineering education studies available to the public. (CP)

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) comes under serious criticism for studies prepared by the academy's committees. It is recommended that the academy do less and do it better with emphasis on being more open and on presenting contrary points of view. (Author/EB)

The sample of monographic literature used in this study conforms to Bradford's law and demonstrates that the law is not confined by political or economic boundaries. (Author)

A total of 27 figures is used to display information about (1) a scientific and technical (S&T) information transfer model, (2) United States S&T communication costs, and (3) U.S. S&T literature items. Figures dealing with communication costs include such variables as function, number of scientists or engineers, literature media,…

The fourth in a series of reports in a review of materials pertaining to what schools within and outside New York state are doing to save energy. In addition to inhouse memoranda, resource material included letters, studies, and publications received from other local, state, and federal agencies; from private firms and associations; and from the…

A study of 191 native English speaking working class children in grades two, four, and six was undertaken to investigate the development of reading comprehension of selected pronoun-referent structures. Three linguistic comparisons were made: referent type, reference order, and referent distance. Target sentences were constructed with these…

The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) bibliography provides an exhaustive list of references to studies adding to the understanding of the development, nature, and use of the test, and is divided into two sections: (1) the first section lists 125 annotated citations that contain research studies on the GRE; (2) the second section lists reviews…

This report describes the methods, developed by the American Institute of Physics in cooperation with Engineering Index, Inc., by which both organizations could reduce costs by eliminating duplication of keyboarding and indexing. The three sets of problems that confronted the interchange of their data bases (classification and indexing, formats,…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ARMY STUDY DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM (ASDIRS) ARE TO PROVIDE A CENTRAL LIBRARY OF ARMY STUDIES READILY ACCESSIBLE IN THE PENTAGON. AT THE PRESENT TIME, A BIBLIOGRAPHIC QUARTERLY CATALOG OF ARMY STUDIES AND A PERMUTED DESCRIPTOR/TITLE INDEX ARE PROVIDED. THE CATALOG OF ARMY STUDIES IS PRODUCED USING AN IBM…

Included in this fourth annual yearbook are position papers, "how we do it" articles, research reports, and book reviews. The first four articles present information about the use of various technologies in instructional programs, i.e., computer assisted instruction at a college of advanced education, educational technology concepts and…