Four hundred seventy-two residential facilities across the U.S., serving mentally ill, alcoholics, and other disability groups, reported their experience with community opposition. Residential programs for offenders encountered opposition more frequently. However, for all types of facilities, attempts to occupy sites in residential neighborhoods,…

A study is proposed that seeks to use the normally problematic factor of non-response to a survey in a positive way in order to estimate certain characteristics of a population subgroup. A longitudinal database, the Scientific and Technical Personnel Data System (STPDS) measures the educational, demographic, and employment characteristics of the…

This report examines parents' goals for secondary education through an interview according to the range and content of his/her goals and needs, the hierarchical structure of the categories of these goals, and the priorities he/she established among the goal categories. Three separate studies (N=19; N=20; N=81) were conducted in order to refine and…

Senior Project is a culminating assessment for 12th graders that determines what they know and can do as they prepare to graduate from high school in North Carolina. It consists of a research paper on an approved topic of the students choice, a product and portfolio related to the paper, and a presentation before a review panel of community…

The paper details a study supporting the hypothesis that people's opinions about nuclear arms control are influenced by their logically relevant beliefs about nuclear weapons, nuclear war, and the Soviet Union. The hypothesis should not be construed to imply that these beliefs are the only influences or the most powerful influences on arms control…

Mail, telephone, and in-group methods of surveying youth are analyzed and an example of the use of the latter method during the early phase of Project 4-Health (4-H) in California is provided. Issues in data collection are associated with cost, time, survey item comprehension, and participation rates. Project 4-Health is a 5-year tobacco…

This paper explored attitudes toward death and dying revealed through interviews with members of the clergy, the medical profession, funeral directors, nursing home residents, and selected others. The sampling was small and results are not intended to be representative of the groups to which these people belong. Rather, the study may be used as a…

This study was designed to extend discussion of fear of success beyond the college population, using Horner's original coding scheme to examine the thematic imagery of TAT stories told by a cross-section of the public during a survey interview. The data collected from this sample of the general public contrasted in several ways with data gathered…

Field research gives graduate students a direct experience in appreciating the differences between doing research and reporting it. This paper reports the field experience provided in a doctoral program at the School of Education at Syracuse University. With the support and assistance of faculty consultants, a structured problem approach was used.…

In accordance with the goals of the Rehabilitation Counselor Education (RCE) accreditation movement, the Council On Rehabilitation Education (CORE) contracted the research aspects of the accreditation project to the University of Wisconsin-Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute to develop a series of data gathering instruments to assess,…

The one most important ingredient that should be included in the training of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) students who will be entering business and industry is practical experience prior to graduation, a conclusion resulting from two surveys. The first survey was sent to recent I/O graduates newly employed in industry, and asked for an…

Data on faculty incomes, both base and supplemental, are summarized. Sources of supplemental income are described, and income variables are related to characteristics of individual faculty members, their institutions, and their disciplines. The analysis was based upon the l975 survey of the American Professoriate (Ladd and Lipset, 1975) which…

The opinions of 162 psychologists, 842 teachers, 125 public school administrators and 50 state departments of education were surveyed regarding the current status of service delivery and school psychology. The first questionnaire was directed to coordinators of school psychological services and school psychologists and requested information about…

This study examined the structure and function of student affairs research offices (SAROs) at American colleges and universities. A total of 35 SAROs completed questionnaires during 1995 in regard to their organization and its activities. Overall, the study found only a small number of SAROs in American colleges and universities, mainly at public…

Exemplars of research on academic programs are considered in relation to the qualities of research and types of information used as a framework for analysis. It is suggested that serious investigations of the postsecondary curriculum are characterized by: efforts to move from particularistic approaches to the stipulation of universalistic…