This booklet provides information on short courses, seminars, summer schools, scholarships, and travel grants available each year to students, teachers, and other young people and adults planning to study or train abroad during vacations. Study programs for periods longer than three months and short-term activities unlikely to be repeated…

The effects of sex, verbal ability, test anxiety, ideational fluency and training procedures on Formulating Hypotheses test performance were studied. Training consisted of presentation of models of "acceptable" responses that stressed either quantity or quality performance. Both the quantity and quality models were effective in modifying…

This 1-year pilot project in training nurse's aides to become eligible for licensing as practical nurses in isolated rural hospitals was designed to upgrade their skills, expand their theoretical knowledge, and aid in occupational mobility upon successful completion of the program and the State's examination. Conducted in a typical rural hospital…

In order to determine the potential of the transportation and traffic engineering industry to employ dislocated aerospace and defense professional personnel with technical skills, a national survey was conducted by the Los Angeles and Boston skills conversion teams of the National Society of Professional Engineers, under contract to the Department…

As part of a federal study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor, the employment potential for displaced aerospace and defense professionals in the area of mineral extraction was examined. Mining and metallurgical engineering, the classical technical disciplines employed in the mineral extraction industry, are supplied from schools…

A study was conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor by the National Society of Professional Engineers to investigate the potential for and means of conversion of the skills of displaced aerospace and defense technical professionals to other industries or to public service. The study concentrated on areas where new employment opportunities might…

The increasing problem of unemployment among technical professionals from the aerospace and defense industry and their general lack of employment opportunities dictated a need for study of potential profitable expansion of use of these personnel in other areas. Also, recommendations were needed for developing mechanisms to start the transition of…

The purpose of the study was to develop a plan of trade and industrial education for Iran to serve secondary school students, dropouts, and adults. The plan is limited to less than baccalaureate degree programs. Analysis of relevant data collected from sources in the United States and Iran revealed that selected procedures and characteristics of…

The paradigm and model presented in this paper, influenced by the Havelock's "linkage" model and Chin's "changing" model, aim to assist educators in determing directions of change using a selection of managerial and behavioral techniques, and to regulate the rate of change using management information and control systems. The generic paradigm…

The purpose of this field study was to determine the effect of using achievement motivation simulations on the vocational development of high school students. Two hundred 10th grade students from four Washington, D. C. schools were randomly divided into a control and an experimental population. The control population remained in the regular…

A project designed to put into practice elements of new and tested concepts in the behavioral sciences is described. It contains elements of humanistic education, systems analysis, group counseling and group guidance, and principles known to improve communication between people and to lead to a better understanding of self. The suggestions within…

In this monograph, the authors provide a general overview of recent literature on administrator preparation programs. Ten chapters parallel the major interrelated components of an administrator preparation program: Program content, program structure, recruitment and selection, instructional approaches, field-related experiences, student research,…

Designed to be of practical assistance to those interested in improving their abilities for group discussion leadership and participation and their knowledge of learning-discussion groups, this book is organized so that the first seven chapters are concerned with theory and the last seven concern practical application. The chapter titles are as…

Society no longer can afford schools that are passive or neutral about the social exigencies of contemporary mankind nor teachers unaware of the problems and issues confronting modern man. We need a philosophy of education that overcomes the present dichotomy between schooling and life with a commitment to accept the reality of a society that…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the Mexican Education Minister's remarks at a conference for adult education. He stated that educational reform was part of a far reaching plan for social reform; he characterized civic training as an all-sector task, transcending confinement to the classroom and…