The current status of mathematics education in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is reported. The perceptions of Davis and Romberg reflect their own observations and discussions with Soviet educators. Kantowski and Rachlin give their impressions resulting from reading reports on Soviet research techniques and findings. Davis and Romberg…

The fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, brought to light a lack of compliance with the freedom of information philosophy and its supporting statutes. Freedom of information means circulation of important information. However, at the Grand Hotel, the hotel staff had not been properly trained in disaster procedures, the escape…

An experiment was conducted in which perceptions of an individual responding to an initial disclosure were examined. Observer subjects (N=315) read a brief description of a first encounter between two women. During the meeting one of the women made either an intimate or a non-intimate disclosure (low vs. high initial intimacy). The other woman…

In this paper, patterns of change in the general modes of interpersonal communication in a high-information society are explored in the light of the diffusion of communications technology. Communications technology is defined as the sum total of mechanical systems that transmit, receive, and store information, while interpersonal communication is…

Many factors contribute to the difficulties the media have in dealing with science, engineering, and technology. These difficulties were pointed up in the media coverage of the March 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, which reflected confusion and lack of understanding and which combined with other factors (including the movie…

There appears to have been no coherent movement of rural adult education in the United States since the area was first surveyed in the 1930s. Such problems exist as fragmentation, a lack of communication across efforts, and a lack of continuity in time. There does not even appear to be adequate information on the nature and scope of the enterprise…

Pointing out the large number of immigrants to the United States from various cultural backgrounds and the large minority population that already exists in the U. S., this paper argues that there is an urgent need for health service workers to have sound preparation in intercultural and interpersonal communication. The paper discusses the health…

In a study supported by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, a research team developed a methodology for illustrating the effective and ineffective uses of audio, video, and computer teleconferencing by developing scenarios for eacb medium. The group first invented a general situation--a conference involving participants with global, regional, and…

This study focuses on the communication patterns (that is, talking of individual experiences and knowledge of other's experiences) of Holocaust related issues in the families of survivors and investigates the consequences of these patterns as reflected in the descendants' knowledge about the Holocaust and their attitudes toward its survivors. A…

This booklet is one of a series of teacher-written curriculum publications launched by the Bay Area Writing Project, each focusing on a different aspect of the teaching of composition. Methods are illustrated for teaching students to recognize dishonest language and to write honestly themselves and include cliche/euphemism avoidance techniques,…

THE DESIGN OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DISCOVER BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS AMONG THE ACHIEVERS AND UNDERACHIEVERS AMONG MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WHICH WILL DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THEM FOR PREDICTIVE PURPOSES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUMS. THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES WERE TO ESTABLISH (1) PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENTAL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN WITH RETARDED MENTAL…

THE PRESENT STUDY INVESTIGATES THE EFFECTS OF INTERVIEWER WARMTH ON INTERVIEWEE VERBAL BEHAVIOR, AND REPLICATES EARLIER FINDINGS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF INTERVIEWER SPECIFICITY. IN ADDITION TO FIVE VERBAL BEHAVIOR VARIABLES USED IN PREVIOUS STUDIES, THREE ADDITIONAL SCALES, NONRESISTIVENESS, RESISTIVENESS, AND SUPERFICIALITY, WERE DEVELOPED TO ASSESS…

Speech instructors who teach English as a second language to international students are trying to help those students acquire a basic minimal command of English for success or survival in their education and do not require them to attain the fluency expected of native-born speakers of English. At one junior college where foreign student enrollment…