Over 6,000 educators in the Merrimack Valley responded to a questionnaire conducted in the fall of 1972 that one of their prime needs for information is in the area of curriculum materials. The Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, in association with Merrimack Education Center, has recently prepared a response to…

The recent trend toward a greater emphasis on career education for life preparation has brought with it the need for more accurate and appropriate information about self, environment, and the world of work. This publication was prepared to help the classroom teacher in identifying and assessing the various types and sources of occupational…

Approximately 300 annotated references to research on the impact of television and other visual media on the behavior and development of children are presented in three sections of this bibliography. The first section consists of reports about the type of fare offered to the public and the values and picture of life it presents. Literature in the…

The 1970 edition of this handbook is an attempt to reflect the totality of adult education -- its background, function, objectives, and roles -- as a discipline and in American society. It is divided into three parts. Part I discusses forms, functions, and the future of adult education -- social setting and international dimension for adult…

One previously untested benefit of political advertising before elections may be that it serves "internal" as well as "external" needs, i.e., it boosts the morale of the campaign staff and provides them with information to persuade voters. This proposition was tested during the 1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign by means of a questionnaire…

The local history collection should contain: county histories; city and village histories; state and regional histories; anniversary booklets; company histories; local newspapers; local magazines; genealogies; family albums; diaries; journals, and letters; account books; club yearbooks; school annuals; telephone books, city directories and local…

This pilot study was conducted to evaluate the telephone reference service of a university library. Questions were called in by volunteers to several different divisions of the library to try to determine: (a) factual accuracy of responses, (b) level of interviewing by the staff person, and (c) attitude of the staff person. Results of the study…

To qualify for inclusion in this listing, a building must have been constructed with two or more compatible building subsystems, one of which is structure. It is estimated that at least 400 schools that satisfy this definition have been constructed in the U. S. and Canada, about one quarter of which appear in this listing. Beginning with this…

The role of performance evaluation and testing in the development of an operational accountability system for urban public schools is discussed. Management science techniques and concepts and econometric methods are used to specify an accountability system, determine its data requirements, and evaluate alternative measures of systems performance.…

This list of embassies, consulates, and educational and information offices has been compiled for the benefit of teachers of the languages and cultures of peoples of other countries. Section 1 lists each country under the language which is the principal language or one of the official languages of that country. It also contains an alphabetical…

Pamphlets can be a valuable part of any library collection. Most pamphlets today are housed in vertical files which are impractical and actually limit their availability. This document is a 14-page, illustrated booklet describing the SHA-FRAME system of organizing pamphlet literature. Complete step-by-step instructions are given, along with…

In 1972 American universities will confer 33,700 doctorates. An essential feature of the process which leads to the doctorate is the submission and defense of a dissertation. The doctoral dissertation must embody the results of extended research, be an original contribution to knowledge and include material worthy of publication. It is surprising,…

Because of the emerging emphasis on career education, educators are becoming more interested in what is being done in both local and state programs. This document is the result of a series of on-site visits made by the North Carolina center staff to projects in 30 states and a review of self-studies submitted by the projects. Synopses of the…

The 1971 semi-annual ASIDIC (Association of Scientific Information Dissemination Centers) meeting held in Chicago was designed as a working session in which the topics of most concern to the member organizations could be discussed in detail. This report is a summary of those discussions. The broad topic headings for discussion were: (1)…

A study was designed to test the hypothesis that different communication stages between nations--primitive, traditional, modern, and neomodern--provide important variables for explaining differences in pre-adults' conception of war in different countries. Although the two samples used in the study were drawn from two cultures which fall into the…