There is strong evidence which shows many communities have failed to plan adequately or even plan for long range school construction needs. This paper deplores this failure and gives some recommendations for long range planning. A checklist is described which may serve as a guide for conducting a school plant survey to identify and survey unmet…

In the recent past, there has been a great deal of effort directed toward developing techniques for documenting therapeutic outcome. Funding sources and the general public seem to be demanding more meaningful data which indicate, in a clear manner, whether or not the services they are paying for are of value. Mental health centers, like other…

Contained in the booklet is information gathered from a variety of sources on the education of gifted and talented students. Included are such items as a list of the purposes and goals of the Wisconsin Council for the Gifted and Talented, fact sheets and checklists, characteristics for the identification of gifted children, general suggestions for…

Part of a series of vocational teacher education modules, the learning guide is designed to help the vocational education teacher select and obtain instructional materials. The module contains three learning experiences: a self-test, a case study and critique form with model answers, and a checklist for obtaining student instructional materials.…

This booklet is intended to aid local school superintendents and other school administrators in preparing comprehensive contingency plans to meet various emergency situations. Although it was developed by the State of New Jersey Department of Education, most of the booklet is equally applicable to schools in other states as well. It is organized…

This handbook provides help and direction in minimizing the impact of a teacher strike on the local community. It is, in essence, a management plan to deal with work stoppages on as high a professional plane as possible. Modification must be made to meet local and state circumstances. Each school district must write a plan in line with its own…

The Future Farmers of America (FFA) Achievement Award Program is designed to increase the involvement of all students of vocational agriculture in the activities of the Future Farmers of America by offering a realistically attainable level of recognition and motivation for each student. The certificate is awarded to students having satisfactorily…

Six experiments were conducted to determine whether idea checklists increased idea quantity and quality. College students were allowed 10 or 20 minutes or unlimited time to find ideas for product improvement problems. Results indicated that the only checklist which significantly stimulated productivity was composed of just seven general categories…

This bibliographical guide to the resources for advanced study and research in the libraries of the United Kingdom and Ireland provides a record of all published library catalogs, all checklists of specialized collections in libraries; calendars of manuscripts and archives; exhibition catalogs; articles descriptive of library collections; guides…

Many library administration methods for dealing with routine matters are suggested in this manual. It is addressed to administrators, teachers, librarianship students and especially school librarians and library technicians at all grade levels. School library philosophies, rationales and objectives are presented. A model philosophy and policy…

This reference book catalogues nearly every commercial film produced in Britain for public entertainment from 1895 to 1970. The entries are listed chronologically by year and month. Each entry is limited to a single film and contains a cross index code number, exhibition date, main title, length, color system, production company, distribution…

This selective review of the library science literature of the five-year period 1965-1969 aims to provide library science teachers and libraries with a checklist of material pinpointing the more significant works in each major area. The selection has been limited to 150 works from various parts of the world in order to keep the review within…

Approximately 42 percent of the Harcum Junior College student body participated in a study of faculty effectiveness. Results of the Faculty Evaluation Check List, which consisted of 10 Likert-type items and two open-ended questions, indicate that students have high regard for their professors. A copy of the instrument is included. (AG)

Presented is an instrument (behavior checklist) designed to assess the skill of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) students in performing specific tasks at all levels. Self care, motor, social, and cognitive skills or tasks are categorized according to three levels of competency. The first level includes the development of the very basic…

Reported are the conclusions of a summer institute of special educators for the purpose of evaluating the appropriateness of the open-middle school for the exceptional child. The study is based on the ideas of architects Michael Bednar and David Haviland, who order exceptionalities along a continuum of intactness of the adaptive mechanism and…