The purpose of this document is two-fold: (1) to acquaint the research and development community with general guidelines for working with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (OR&D) under grant or contract support, and (2) to make publicly available a list of specific grant and contract tasks which OR&D…

The Fisher Exact Probability Test considers independent groups and dichotomous criterion in a 2 by 2 (fourfold) contingency table. Fisher's test requires a determination of the combined probability of the observed frequency distribution and of the more extreme (in the same direction) frequency distributions. Typically, Fisher's test is for a small…

Computing at Stanford University has, until recently, been performed at one of five facilities. The Stanford hospital operates an IBM 370/135 mainly for administrative use. The university business office has an IBM 370/145 for its administrative needs and support of the medical clinic. Under the supervision of the Stanford Computation Center are…

This issue of the newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has as its theme International Science Education. It contains reports from five science education projects located in Great Britain, the West Indies, Africa, Thailand, and Australia. Also included is an article by Dr. Albert V. Baez, Chairman of the AAAS…

This paper attempts to organize, systematize, elaborate, and elucidate a number of basic principles for behavioral change that have experimental foundation. The two major areas discussed concern procedures and principles for strengthening and weakening behavior. Matters of inducing behavior are considered. Principles for strengthening behavior are…

Section I of this report gives a brief background of the Three Phase Primary Science Project and the evaluation procedures used. Section II reports the results, organized in an overall analysis, and in analyses by standards (grade levels), phases, school situations, school agency, teachers' experience, and districts. A lesson-by-lesson analysis is…

This project was a community environmental education effort undertaken in an urban neighborhood, aimed at enhancing the understanding residents have concerning the social and spatial structure of their neighborhood, and thereby improving their ability to act effectively for environmental change. Nearly 100 residents participated in a four-month…

Activities during the first three years of New York University's Ocean Engineering Program are described including the development of new courses and summaries of graduate research projects. This interdepartmental program at the master's level includes aeronautics, chemical engineering, metallurgy, and physical oceanography. Eleven courses were…

The report contains a discussion of how electronics is taught at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering as well as what students are to be selected for the program. (NTIS)

The Center's Career and Curricula program bases its work upon a theory of career development. The report presents summaries of the theory upon which the program was based, of the work accomplished by the program, and of the research conducted. It also provides abstracts and ordering sources for the various reports completed. The theory assumes…

This book presents case studies of eight institutions and their efforts to work with urban communities. The schools are the University of Chicago; Southern Illinois University; University of California, Los Angeles; Our Lady of the Lake; Morgan State; Northeastern University; Columbia; and Wayne State. The volume is a practical description of…

An explicit model of the process of quantification which involves the operations of subitizing and counting is described. The general model states that quantification of n items takes place via subitizing when n is less than five and via subitizing and addition (that is, counting) when n is five or larger. The explicit model is stated in the form…

The report of the Memphis component of Project CLUE (Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education) which serves 600 academically gifted children in grades 4, 5, and 6 with a seminar program requiring 2 half day sessions weekly is presented, and the current expansion of the program into the junior high and first grade levels is noted. The centers are…

This background paper summarizes the design of a faculty early retirement plan at Stanford University. Summary and recommendations indicate: (1) Budgetary stringencies at Stanford require that the faculty size remain essentially fixed. In view of this situation, a properly designed early retirement program should be adopted as a means of…

This paper (chapter 7 of a larger monograph entitled "Training Teams of Teachers for Urban Schools: The Ford Training and Placement Program") discusses the three major stages of training in the Ford Training and Placement Program: a) specialist training and focused preparation, b) cadre training and coordinated preparation, and c) the intern year…