Training Program for Research Specialists. Final Report.

The present document presents data concerning a graduate program designed to produce graduates who will: (1) help to supply schools with a category of needed research personnel; (2) have a knowledge of the methods used in conducting research, a knowledge of techniques for formulating hypotheses and questions; and an expertise in the interpretation of data; (3) have a knowledge of and an ability to apply statistical tests that will supply data on which confirmation or refutation of a hypothesis may be based; (4) have an understanding in depth of physiological, psychological, and sociological factors that affect individual performance and behavior; and (5) have an understanding of educational systems analysis and its effects on or relationship to the decisionmaking process. Persons from the fields of medicine, sociology, psychology, speech, statistics, speech therapy, engineering, and biology participated in the program. (HS)