This case study research was designed to examine the referral process for Washington Gifted Middle School in Peoria Public School District 150 in Peoria, Illinois. The purpose was to determine if perceptions of fourth wade classroom teachers who recommended students to the school were a contributing factor in the disproportionate number of African…

Telephone interviews were conducted to compare reported and true date of birth and salary for 105 Mexican American, 219 Anglo American, and 134 black city employees in San Antonio, Texas. The Anglo and Mexican American samples were randomly selected from the police and fire departments; the blacks, not being concentrated in sufficient numbers in…

Examined the effects of three interviewing techniques on Mexican-American and Anglo-American college undergraduates' (N=124) willingness to self-disclose, perceptions of the counselor, and sex of subjects as an influencing variable. No differences across intervention techniques were found on the total scores of the disclosure questionnaire.…

Discussed in this paper is a preliminary analysis of findings from data gathered during the first phase of a research project exploring the processes whereby the nature of the mother's occupation affects her family life, especially (1) her partnership in decisions about housework, child care and education and (2) the negotiation of the allocation…

Innovative methods devised to obtain the desired number of Anglo, Mexican American and American Indian women for a study of the health of recently widowed low income women are explored. Social and health service agencies proved generally unable to assist by contacting their clients. Different techniques were found to be successful for recruiting…

Home interviews were used to investigate the degree to which Mexican American parents have retained traditional Mexican family attitudes and childrearing practices. Respondents were 118 Mexican American and 148 Anglo American parents, residing in the same working-class neighborhoods in San Jose, California, who were married to persons of the same…