Discusses recent protest concerning the conduct of survey research. (SL)

A survey, taken in mid-1973, indicates that the scientific manpower market situation has improved. The overall unemployment rate for people holding a doctorate in science or engineering is 1.2 percent. (PEB)

Reports the results of a survey conducted for the National Science Foundation which indicate generally favorable public attitudes toward science and technology and their ability to solve national problems. (JR)

This year's survey of freshmen entering college shows that their high school grades are higher than ever. There is at least indirect evidence that competence in basic academic skills is on the decline. There appears to be a trend of students selecting fields less demanding of basic academic skills. (BB)

A survey of 100 private institutions of higher education, excluding the larger research universities, shows that the private sector is healthy, student enrollment is steady, faculty-student ratios have declined slightly, and only a few private colleges are in serious financial trouble. (MLH)

Provides a summary assessment report of the future implications of reduced federal funding for research and development in universities. Current research is still of high quality but is deteriorating; reduced research poses a decline in graduate enrollment; and no future surge in federal funding is projected. (SL)

Reviews ten National Academy of Science surveys of the health and directions of major fields of science conducted from 1962 to 1974. It is concluded that while the conducted surveys had shortcomings, they appear to have been worth the expense and effort. (SL)

Presented are the results of a national poll of research directors to identify critical problems facing basic research today. Problems identified included the following: lack of continuous, stable funding; decline in the quality of research students; infringement of the freedom of inquiry; and decline in public confidence. (SL)

Examines issues associated with the design of and statistical inferences from embedded experiments which vary the questionnaire content into sample surveys of broad populations. Provides an example of context effects in attitude surveys, a summary, and conclusions. (RT)

The first of a two-part series outlining the status and prospects of computer assisted instruction. This part discusses the range of instructional methods used, and provides some assessment of their efficacy. (AL)

Survey results indicate that, if effective sex control technologies were rapidly and widely adopted in the United States, the current sex preferences of married women would be for male children for the first couple of years of such control. Whatever characteristics associated with being firstborn would therefore be concentrated among males. (PEB)

Discusses a recent report concerning the realities which face female medical school students. Information is based on a survey of 146 female medical students at 41 medical schools located throughout the nation. (PEB)

Recent national Gallup surveys indicate about half the respondents would approve health programs that would give birth control services free to teenage girls who requested them. (DF)

Analyses of a 1969 survey of over 60,000 faculty members in colleges and universities in the United States indicate that natural scientists are to the ideological left of engineers, but more conservative than social scientists; that more successful and influential scientists and engineers are more liberal than the rank-and-file; and that if…