This document contains the texts of 27 presentations given at the National Agricultural Education Research Meeting. The papers in the proceedings are grouped under 10 themes with a critique for each group. The themes (with speakers' names in parentheses) are as follows: supervised occupational experiences (Gregory W. Fletcher, David L. Williams, W. Wade Miller, John Slocombe, Fred Reneau, Rose Roider, Jim Legacy, and Tom Stitt, with a critique by John Hillison); agricultural mechanics institution (Joe Harper, J. David McCracken, Jack Rudolph, Roy Dillon, Glen C. Shinn, and David M. Agnew, critique by Gary E. Briers); characteristics of agricultural educators (*George Wardlow, Larry Miller, John Carnes, Donald R. Herring, J. David McCracken, and Lugard Etuk, critique by Alfred J. Mannebach); evaluation of vocational agriculture (Max B. McGhee, Howard Gordon, William Camp, and Larry R. Arrington, critique by Ronald A Brown); trends in agricultural education (James A. Knight, Ronald Rosati, Alan Kahler, and Thomas Curry, critique by Edgar P. Yoder and James H. Mortensen); vocational agriculture programs (Lane Beard, Michael Burnett, Susan Camp, Joe Kotrlik, Robert Martin, Emmanual Nwozuzu, and Amy Gleasson, critique by Ed Osborne); computer applications in instruction (Blannie Bowen, David M. Agnew, Norman Rohrbach, Bob Stewart, Art Berkey, and Dean Sutphin, critique by W. Wade Miller); teaching strategies (Jerry Peters, Joel Simmons, and James Mortensen, critique by R. Kirby Barrick); and issues in agricultural education (Ismail bin Yahya, Gary E. Moore, Dean Sutphin, Regina Smick, and Ron Seibel, critique by Gary W. Leske). Two additional papers on research methodology (Al Mannebach, Paul McKenna, and Geeta Pfau) and community development instruction (Kirby Barrick and Cheryl Caplinger) are also included. (KC)