A survey collating information on educational research in member states was carried out by questionnaire; this volume, written in French, contains the replies from Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Holy See, and Switzerland. The report from each country is divided into two parts: (1) Governmental Activities, and (2) Acitivities of…

A survey collating information on educational research in member states was carried out by questionnaire; this volume contains the replies from Austria, Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, and Turkey. The report from each country is divided into two parts: (1) Governmental Activities, and (2) Activities of…

This report surveyed the activities of the Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) at Colorado State University from June 1966 to August 1969. The RCU was responsible for coordinating data collection at several State agencies and research of the State Board and teacher training institutions. Information dissemination activities included the preparation…

This document is the second part of the report of the African Education Research (AER) project. It presents a classification of 416 research projects undertaken by Africans on education issues in Africa during the period from 1970 to 1974. It is designed to provide Africans and Africanists with a resource to assess the state of the art and to…

Recent developments in Northwestern University's Computer Aids to Teaching Project are reviewed in the first section of this issue. Included are pieces of information about the use of the PLATO IV system, and about increasing access to System Development Corporation's Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) files, along with news about…

Eighty-one references selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts are included in the annotated bibliography on cerebral palsy, one in a series of over 50 similar listings dealing with handicapped and gifted children. For each listing, bibliographic and availability information, indexing and retrieval descriptors, and an abstract are…

Compiled from data gathered in fiscal years 1969 and 1970 by the Science Information Exchange, Smithsonian Institution, this inventory of more than 4200 federally and non-federally supported environmental research projects represents an attempt to provide a meaningful look at the shape, complexity, and direction of current and recent research.…

The Educational Research Training Center has trained 54 professional educators in a period of 5 years. It employed a consortium of four universities and 20 public and parochial school districts to accomplish research needed by the member institutions and to train research personnel for the member school districts and universities. Trainees,…

Drastic changes in the teaching market, the nature of our times, and the support of universities demand an examination of present teacher education programs. This investigation set out to examine selected aspects of teacher education programs as a basis for establishing the future direction of the total teacher education program of the Department…

The bibliography of research on the visually handicapped covers approximately 1,300 entries published between the years 1953 and 1971, inclusive. Only those references containing reports of research on the visually handicapped in which empirical data of some kind were collected are included. Studies of single cases are included, with most studies…

The Cooperative Research Program (CRP) was organized in 1956 by the U.S. Office of Education. This 7-year program developed new knowledge about major educational problems and devised new applications of existing knowledge for solving problems. The average contribution of the Federal Government to each project was $50,000 for a 2-year project or…

As an extension of ideas suggested in an earlier paper which proposed a project control system for Indiana University's Audio-Visual Center (see EM 010 306), this paper examines the establishment of project legitimacy and priority within the system and reviews the need to stimulate specific research proposals as well as generating a matrix of…

Male extended-care patients (N=81) relocated due to planned demolition of the building in which their ward was located were followed for 21 months in an effort to examine the influence of relocation on mortality. Results show no increased mortality thus suggesting the degree of environmental change may be important. Paper presented at Canadian…

The study reveals that a statistically significant number of teachers took advantage of a legislative option permitting them to retire earlier than previous legislation had permitted. The implications of this finding on the variables effecting attitudinal militancy among teachers and other professionals constitutes the primary thrust of the paper.…

A state-wide study examined early childhood educators' perspectives of death education for young children. Results indicate that teachers are attempting to respond to children's concerns related to death, and exploring the possibility of initiating a more systematic approach to death education as a component of the early childhood curriculum.…