This report chronicles the continuing joint efforts of several state research coordinating units (RCUs) and the National Center for Research in Vocational Education between July 24, 1979, and February 1, 1982, to develop multi-state, multi-year programs of study. These activities are summarized: general planning of the collaborative studies; preparing for RCU involvement; developing coordinated plans for each program area; sharing coordinated plans with the RCUs; further planning in one of the study areas (vocational education effectiveness); communicating progress and monitoring status; release of request for proposal; continued planning during the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the National Research Coordinating Unit Association; Telephone Conference on September 22, 1981; related developments during the fall 1981 meeting of the Southwide Research Coordinating Council; and reviews by mail and telephone conference of instruments for use in vocational education effectiveness study. Appendixes, amounting to over one-half of the report, include synopsis of three priority problems selected at general planning meeting (youth unemployment: education/work connection, validating vocational education effectiveness and assuring relevance of vocational programs, and vocational education accessibility to adults), correspondence, agendas, and requests for proposal for developing a model to measure secondary vocational education programs in Oregon. (YLB)