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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 036 629 VT 010 180 IITLE MANPOWER RESEARCH PROJECTS SPONSORED BY THE US., DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, MANPOWER ADMINISTRATION THROUGH JUNE 30, 1969 INSTITUTION MANPOWER ADMINISTRATION (DOL) ,WASHINGTON, D.C. PUB DATE 69 NOTE 282P., EDRS PRICE EDRS PRICE MF-41.25 EC$14.20 DESCRIPTORS *CATALOGS, *CONTRACTS, *FEDERAL PROGRAMS, GRANTS, *MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, *RESEARCH PROJECTS, RESEARCH PROPOSALS IDENTIFIERS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT, *MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, META, SOCIAL SECURITY ACT ABSTRACT THIS ANNUAL SUMEARY PROVIDES INFOReAATION ABOUT RESEARCH PROGRAMS WHICd HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND ADMINISTERED BY THE OiFICE OF MANPOWER RESEARCH TO JUNE 30, 1969 THE EIS ST' SECTION CONTAINS DATA ABOUT ALL PROJECTS IN PROGRESS AT THE END OF THE 1C.69 FISCAL YEAR. SECTION 2 CONTAINS BRIEF SUMMARIES OF RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED DURING THE YEAR AND SECTION 3 IS A CUMULATIVE LIST CF ALL MANPOWER DEVELCPMENT AND TRAINiNG ACT RESEARCH COMPLETED SINCE THE ACT WAS PASSED., THE LAST PART OFFERS GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS TO THE MANPOWER ADFINISTRATION. (BC) MANPOWER RESEARCH PROJECTS SPONSORED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, MANPOWER ADMINISTRATION Through lune 30, 1969 1969 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR MANPOWER ADMINISTRATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE 0 OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE 0 PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT.POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS 0 STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY. CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION SECTION 1. PROJECTS ACTIVE ON JUNE 30, 1969 3 1.1Research Contracts Under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) 5 1.2Manpower Research Institutional Grants Under the MDTA 35 1.3Doctoral Dissertation Grants Under the MDTA 41 1.4Research Project Grants Under the MDTA 71 1.5Research Contracts Under the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) and the Social Security Act (SSA) 83 SECTION 2. PROJECTS COMPLETED, JULY 1, 1968JUNE 30, 1969 97 2.1Research Contracts Under the MDTA 99 2.2Doctoral Dissertation Grants Under the MDTA 117 2.3Research Project Grants Under the MDTA 131 2.4Research Contracts Under the EOA and the SSA 141 SECTION 3.LIST OF REPORTS COMPLETED, FISCAL YEARS 1963-69 145 3.1Research Contracts Under the MDTA 155 3.2Doctoral Dissertation Grants Under the MDTA 175 3.3Research Project Grants Under the MDTA 181 3.4Research Contracts Under the EOA and the SSA 189 SECTION 4. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF RESEARCH PRO- POSALS 191 4.1Research or Evaluation Contracts 193 4.2Manpower Research Institutional Grants Under the MDTA 199 4.3Doctoral Dissertation Grants Under the MDTA 219 4.4Research Project Grants Under the MDTA 233 Page APPENDIXES 249 A.Subcommittee on Research of the National Manpower Advisory Com- mittee 251 B.Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, Title I, as Amended, 253 INDEXES 259 A.Contractor and Grantee Organizations and Institutions 261 B.Individuals A ssociated With Contracts or Grants 267 C.Contract and Grant Numbers 273 D.Research Subjects 279 iv INTRODUCTION Fiscal year 1969 marked the seventh year of the research program established under title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) to guide and help perfect programs for better utilization of the country's manpower resources. In the past 3 years, this research has been supplemented by a program of studies under the Economic Opportunity Act. Another research program was instituted this year in support of the Social Security Act (SSA). All of these research programs have been developed and are administered by the Office of Manpower Research in the Manpower Administration, under the leadership of the Associate Manpower Administrator. This catalog describes the content and status of these programs on June 30, 1969. Individual research projects are conducted, through a system of contracts and grants, by investigators representing the major social science disciplinessociology, economics, industrial relations, psychology, political science, social work, and an- thropologyas well asthefieldsof business administration, engineering, and education. Most of the researchers are affiliated with universities; the remainder work for government agencies or private research organizations. The more extensive research projects under MDTA and all projects under the EOA and SSA are conducted under contracts. MDTA research grants support three types of projects: (1) Institutional grants to develop new manpower research talent and long-term programs of research on local and regional manpower problems; (2) small grants to doctoral candidates to support research for dissertations in the man- power field; and (3) small research grants to postdoctoral Scholars for innovative studies and the development of research designs for major studies of manpower problems. Projects in progress at the end of fiscal year 1969 under all of these programs are described in section 1 of this publication. Information is included on projects carried over from earlier years, including the seven institutional grants, and on the 16 MDTA contracts, 17 EOA and SSA contracts, 40 dissertation grants, and 11 research project grants which were newly funded during the year. Brief summaries of research completed during fiscal 1969 comprise section 2, and a cumulative list of reports completed since the inception of the MDTA research program is given in section 3. Finally, section 4 presents guidelines for the submission of research proposals to the Manpower Administration.It is included in the hope that social scientists will want to add to the significant contributions recorded in the previous sections of this catalog. 1 =1...., FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON MANPOWER RESEARCH 1. Requests for information concerning active projects should be directed to the principal research staff. 2. See section 3 for a listing of reports that have been completed since 1963 under the research programs described in this volume and for information about how these reports may be obtained. PLEASE DO NOT WRITE TO THE MAN- POWER ADMINISTRATION FOR COPIES OF THESE REPORTS WITHOUT CONSULTING THE LISTING IN SECTION 3. THOSE FOR WHICH THE SOURCE OF COPIES DOES NOT INCLUDE AN "MA" DESIGNATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLY FROM THE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES LISTED. SECTION I. PROJECTS ACTIVE ON JUNE 30, 1969 This section outlines the objectives and proCedures of projects on which research was in progress at the end offiscal year 1969. Reports include work being carried out on research contracts, manpower research institutional grants,doctoral dissertation grants, and research project grants under the Manpower Developmentand Training Act and research contracts under the Economic Opportunity Act and the Social Security Act. 1.1PROJECTS ACTIVE ON JUNE 30, 1969Research Contracts Under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA )1 1.1.01ASSOCIATION FOR THE HELP OF either white or Negro youth achieved IQ scores in RETARDED CHILDREN the normal range. NEW YORK, N.Y. Surveyresultssuggestedthattheretarded are typically members of unstablefamilies,raisedin CONTRACT NO. 81-31-21 poverty. Most of the retarded youth were from welfare families often lacking one or both parents. Family Principal Staff:Ida Alpert, Jack Tobias, and Dr. contact with the courts was frequent. Jacob Cohen, New York City Chapter The survey provided firm evidence that the retarded Project Title: The Employment of New York City's are employable.Approximately 60 percent of the Mentally Retarded Adults young men worked in competitive employment in a wide range of occupations, although at low wages and Objectives and Procedures: This study analyzed: in small firms.However, only 30 percent of the (1) The school records of all persons who completed women worked in competitive employment at the time special education classes for retarded students in New of the survey. The families of the women were often York City in 1960 and 1963 ;(2) the curl ent employ- overprotective, and many jobs which retarded workers ment status of a sample of 500 of these persons; (3) can do are open only to men. their employment patterns since leaving school, in The lack of adequate education, training, and gen- terms of stability, job categories, earnings, and meth- eral work preparation, as identified by the survey, was ods of placement; and (4) their use of public and vol- thought to account in large measure for the high untary agencies in jobseeking efforts. Those in the proportion of retarded persons unemployed or outside sample were interviewed at home, and psychological the work force altogether, although capable of em- evaluations were made of selected subgroups. The aim ployment. Far fewer retardates were receiving special of the study was to develop information that can be education in the school system than could benefit used to enhance retardates' chances of finding jobs. from such programs, and most retarded individuals, it was found, did not take advantage of State rehabili- Status of Project:Completionis scheduled for tation services. September 1969 Typically, once the retarded youth left school, nei- ther he nor his family knew where to turn for help Highlights of Preliminary Findings: The analysis in learning or finding a job. of school records suggested that a large percentage of retarded children were not so identified during their school years, and many children whose IQ's 1.1.02BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE were identified as being in the retarded range remained COLUMBUS, OHIO in regular classes. By contrast, about