Adults requesting information on educational courses are often in effect seeking guidance on more complex employment problems and need help with thinking out a career change. Describes the work of the local Careers Service and how they can provide both industrial and educational gudance to adults. (MF)

The focus is on problems and issues common to both social program evaluation and to evaluation in physical sciences, engineering, medicine, and commerce. Problems discussed include: program implementation; anticipation of success or failure; evaluation data quality; reliability and validity; evaluation design; access to data; data confidentiality;…

Provides a list of 18 names and addresses of sources of educational research abroad and discusses the publications available from these sources. (CHC)

Gathering information is futile without implementation of programs based on the findings. Data from a single needs assessment study can provide useful information to decision makers at several levels. Studies of a general population of adults provide data for state, regional, and local continuing education practitioners. (CT)

Investigated were factors that potentially influence the environmental values of secondary school students in a western New York School district. The four variables studied were concern for the environment, locus of control, knowledge about the environment, and sources of environmental information. (WB)

Lists 306 annotations of case studies of student press experiences, such as guidelines on advertising, legal issues, students' rights, censorship, and pressure to reveal news sources. (RL)

Reviews research on the role of scientists, mass media and journalists, audience interests and habits, information content and design on the dissemination of scientific information. (JMF)

A college mathematics teacher shares experiences in the teaching of blind students. Suggestions are given on topics such as classroom procedures and testing. (MP)

Creates a scenario for potential future publication of journals in electronic online form, from report writing and text editing at individual terminals to acceptance via electronic mail by publishers to receipt of journal information at subscribers' terminals. (SW)

Describes the composition and services of the Student Press Service, the first national news service for high school publications editors. Provides subscription information for the Student Press Service's biweekly publication, "News Report." (GT)

Argues that the invention of self-report procedures could have resolved the crime measurement problem by showing consistency in results across methods, and that it did not resolve the problem because of misinterpretation of self-report findings. Illustrates arguments by using sex, race, and social class as examples. (Author/GC)

Briefly describes the results of experiments using the ATS-6 Satellite in the delivery of social services in several geographic areas: Appalachia (education and Veterans Administration education), the Rocky Mountain region (education), the Northwestern region (medical endeavors), and Alaska (medicine and education). (JMF)

Lists directories of American organizations which employ a large number of chemists and chemical engineers. This column in the journal is designed to acquaint scientific personnel with information to begin or change careers. (SA)

This resource letter is an annotated bibliography aimed at individuals who have recently become interested in lecture demonstrations in physics. Listed are 103 printed sources of information on lecture demonstrations. Whenever possible, annotations are followed by reviews so that other opinions can be consulted. (BT)

A survey of 481 individuals from a major southwestern metropolitan area suggests that a newspaper audience is not monolithic but rather a collection of numerous subsegments with different attitudes and needs regarding newspapers. (GT)