Papers from numerous research areas in the adult education field are presented. The proceedings contain thirty-five papers, five symposia, one alternate symposium, and eighteen alternate papers. Among the papers included are "A Comparison of Approaches to Measuring Outcomes in Adult Basic Education,""A Critical Analysis of Hill's 'Cognitive Style Inventory',""A Mathematical Programming Model to Recognize Conflict in Adult Education Program Selection,""A Normative Field Study of Community-Based Senior Group Programs as Settings for Learning Activities for Older Adults,""A Social Systems Approach to the Analysis of Community Development Pilot Projects,""A Study of the Impact of Public Opinion upon Educational Decision-Makers,""A Test of Piagetian Cognitive Development Theory Applied to Small Groups,""An Attempt at Theory Building from Literature and Field Data,""Automatic Interaction Detector,""Crisis in the Steel Industry: Effects of Mass Unemployment on Educational and Vocational Goals and Activities,""Critical Consciousness and Social Structure in Rural Zaire,""Determinants of Intention to Participate in Continuing Professional Education: An Empirical Investigation,""Development and Validation of a Normative Process Model for Determining Priority of Need in Community Adult Education,""Effectiveness of Voluntary Citizen Advocacy Activities,""Field Methods for an Inductive Approach," and "Immigrant Adult Education: Tasks of Adaptation." (CSS)