Traces the development of the part-time academic advisement program at John Wood Community College (a college with no full-time faculty of its own). Enumerates the problems which necessitated the use of part-time advisers, profiles the staff involved, and presents the results of the first year's evaluation. (AYC)

Presents three simple distinct operational procedures for transforming the empirical notion of speed into a formal concept. The relationship between these three procedures and Galilean velocity and Einsteinian relativity is also included. (HM)

The effects of training using visual modeling prompts as preresponse and as error-correction prompting, and a combination of both procedures were examined by teaching vocational rehabilitation clients three assembly tasks. Preresponse prompting resulted in fewer total errors and more trials. The combination group demonstrated superior performance…

With a sample of 113 undergraduate education majors using self-instructional materials, this study investigated possible interactions of aptitude and treatment between the cognitive styles of field-dependence and field-independence and (1) active-responding or passive-responding teaching strategies and (2) immediate or delayed posttest evaluation…

Data from a nationwide survey of part-timers, conducted by the American Association of University Professors in 1977, are used to compare job-related characteristics of males and females and their motivations for working part-time. The data suggest that part-time academic employment may be a female issue. (Author/MLW)

The goal of physical education is to provide learners with the skills, strategy, customs, and expectations surrounding specific movement activities. Socialization models may serve to clarify the application to curriculum. Implications of this philosophy for curriculum design are described for elementary, junior high, and secondary levels of…

Different movement difficulties were presented and Fitts' Law was confirmed, with a linear relationship between movement time and information load. Measures of capacity placed ESN boys at least five years behind age-matched normal boys. Their performance was also lower, yet their strategies on the serial task followed similar patterns. (Author/SJL)

A California court ruling that part-time community college faculty are temporary and therefore have limited access to the state community college tenure system is discussed and criticized. (Journal availability: Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons, 3011 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach, FL 35510, $6.50.) (MSE)

The use of part-time, adjunct faculty by many colleges as a money-saving device is reviewed. Implications for both personnel and institutions are illustrated by example and by National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) statistics. (JMF)

The speed at which sentences with various kinds of violations could be rejected was studied. Compatible with the sequential model was the finding that noun-verb and adjective-noun double violations did not result in shorter reaction times than noun-verb single violations, although double violations were judged less acceptable. (Author/RD)

A multirate mathematical model is presented to support the hypothesis that different types of information are lost from a memory trace at different rates. The model is validated by two experiments assessing the retention of pictures and of sentences at three different delays by cued recall. (Author/CP)

Results refute current claims that words are read aloud by retrieving a single pronunciation from memory and that pseudowords are pronounced by using abstract spelling-to-sound rules. Instead, it appears that words and pseudowords are pronounced using similar kinds of orthographic and phonological knowledge. (Author/CP)

The activities by colleges and universities directed toward adults and characteristics of the adult learner are charted. The graying of the campus population, the attendance status of the adult learner, the characteristics of the adult degree-credit student, and noncredit activities are discussed. (MLW)

An information-processing framework is presented for understanding intelligence. Two levels of processing are discussed: the steps involved in solving a complex intellectual task, and higher-order processes used to decide how to solve the problem. (MH)

Investigators observed time usage and teacher statements in 26 Chicago high schools and found a lower rate of time loss and a higher rate of positive comments by teachers in higher achieving schools. (Editor)