Presented is a proposal (submitted to the Canaan, Vermont School Directors) for low-cost inservice workshops to develop a minimum objectives system in language arts and mathematics (K-12). Pairing of learning objectives with a time criteria establishes a minimum rate of learning useful in determining children eligible for special services.…

Ninety-six second and third grade children were exposed to one of six types of videotaped models. Children witnessed an adult female practice either charitable or selfish behavior. One-third of the subjects in each group heard the model exhort either charity or greed or verbalize normatively neutral material. Following this exposure, half the…

Basic ingredients of educational program development for the gifted are developed. Consideration of program goals, a composite classification of talents, and identification of the gifted precedes a discussion on rearing and educating gifted children including expectations, parents' obligations, and educational planning. Studies of interests and…

Identification is a learning process important to the development of self-concept and to the role behavior of an individual. This study investigated the degree of race and sex identification and preference in both black and white disadvantaged preschool children. The measurement instrument developed was a 96-item paired picture selection task…

An attempt to collate basic knowledge concerning learning disabilities, the text discusses the background and definition of learning disabilities, and its identification, etiology, and epidemiology. Guidelines for diagnostic evaluation are presented as are approaches from perceptual motor, developmental, visual, neurophysiological, linguistic, and…

Open admission s is an important change in the entry procedures to a major social institution. Several variations of open enrollment have been noted: (1) complete universal higher education based on individual desire; (2) universal entry on the basis of particular needs and talents; and (3) admission of a percentage of students under different…

The proceedings of the training institute include papers by Hans Myer on the nature of special education, goals for the handicapped by Marvin Beekman, identification of handicapped students by Ernest Willenberg, instructional materials by Wayne Lance, and the role of the Council for Exceptional Children by John Kidd. Transcriptions are provided of…

Designed to emphasize areas of interaction, the papers on learning disabilities include discussions of the importance and procedures of early diagnoses of developmental disorders, by Joseph DiLeo; traditional concepts and problems of minimal brain dysfunction (MBD), by Ernest Siegel; interactions of the MBD child, family, and teacher, by Bernard…

To compare the performance of children in classes for the educable mentally handicapped (EMH) with their peers (age mates) in regular classes on relevant dimensions, to investigate the validity of class placements using multiple criteria, and to determine the relationship between class placement and demographic variables, 378 children in EMH…

The paper is a report of research conducted on the question of acculturation and identity among Maori college graduates in New Zealand. Situational approach and role analysis were employed as the instruments with the sample of graduates from Maori University. The study concluded that the Maori is able to avoid assimilation into the dominant…

A review of NASA Federal Management Intern (MI) programs indicates potential for identification, attraction, and early development of successful administrative management employees, but suggests that successful development of managers is a function of the long-term care with which an agency pursues MI programs. A recent study of separations in…

Research evidence indicates that racial awareness, including differential preference based on such an awareness, is quite pervasive and develops very early in life. In an effort to investigate the existence of racial awareness as manifested in differential preference in preschool children, this two-part study was conducted. In part one, 40 objects…

Reported is the Franklin Training Natural Talent (TNT) project in a San Bernardino, California, junior high school with a disadvantaged Mexican American and Negro student body. Goals of TNT were to identify and select the top 25 percent of the seventh grade, organize a series of orientation meetings for the parents of the selected students, and…

Materials are presented to assist local school personnel in the adoption of successful programs and services for gifted and talented pupils. Articles offering solutions to problems in, or suggesting ideas and guidelines for, educational programing include the broadening concepts of giftedness, by E. Paul Torrance; justification for special…

A developed abilities performance battery (DAP) has been constructed based on the Project Talent Survey to serve two major functions in the guidance area of Project Plan. The first function is to enable teacher, parent, and student to realistically evaluate the student's present level of developed performance ability. The second function of DAP…