The major research findings for the 6-year period following October 1956 are reported in the categories: (1) Vocational, Technical, and Practical Arts Education which discusses the current status of research in vocational education and the practical arts and reviews significant research which cuts across or is relevant to two or more of the several major fields, (2) Career Planning, Job Placement, and Follow-Up which includes the general theory of vocational development, general education, and specific occupational programs, (3) Agricultural Education which reflects interest in evaluation, adjustments due to changes in agricultural nonfarm occupations, the shortage of professional persons, and the expansion of nonvocational agriculture, (4) Home Economics Education which includes secondary education, the basis for program development, evaluation, attitudes, college programs, student characteristics and abilities, history, and teacher education, (5) Industrial Education which includes industrial arts and vocational industrial education, (6) Business Education which includes implications for secondary programs and new information, (7) Distributive Education which includes objectives and philosophy, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, and evaluation and followup, and (8) Technical Education which includes assessment of basic needs, institutional planning, curriculum, enrollment, programs, and institutions. (EM)