The authors focus on evaluation as opposed to research, showing that the skills and processes are not the same and that therefore the graduate training should not be the same. Necessary evaluation skills include a knowledge of research design, instrument construction, effective consultation, practical experience, maturity and communication. (LA)

Outlines a program that organizes students in heterogeneous classrooms, grouping them by ability only in specialized subject areas thereby allowing students a more realistic approach to learning and life. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the training of teachers in the role of cooperative teacher. (RK)

Considered the need for effective conservation and outlined the development of conservation organizations and programs. (RK)

Author describes his system for helping students to plan and take responsibility for their own program of study. (Author)

Four-stage model is presented as a way of achieving diversity in the means and ends of education primarily through more educational planning at the local level. (HD)

Article pointed out the need for arts programs in atypical situations, some of the profound basic needs of exceptional people and how the arts can be a major means of meeting these needs. (Author/RK)

Described the difficulties of reading and appreciating Japanese literary studies . (RK)

Article seeks to cover the following topics: an overview of First Chance; a description of TADS (Technical Assistance Development System); and a discussion of the organization's Media and Information division. (Author)

In order to facilitate more effective exchange between Canada and developing countries, a selective inventory of educational inventing in Canada has been compiled. A pilot survey produced a large number of educational innovations some of which were chosen for distribution in the inventory based on choices made by planning officers in developing…

Described a program designed to provide educational opportunities for elderly persons and considered how community colleges were able to reach young adult, pre-retirement and retirement populations. (Author/RK)

Author briefly restated the intentions of the representatives of the people of Illinois when they created Sangamon State University, interpreted them as intellectual purposes, and delineated a few of the functions important in carrying them out. (Author/RK)

Author presented the results of a study he completed, which sought to discover and explore the roots and development of ideas permeating the community-junior college movement. (Author/RK)

A Manpower Administration study of nine geographical areas notable in manpower planning progress identified major determinants of successful local manpower planning as: support from high level, elected officials; clout; participation by agency administrators; labor market planning scope; management through budget; development of new planning…

Since philosophy is the controlling factor in teaching (because every teacher operates from a theoretical base), industrial arts teachers need to be familiar with the prevalent doctrine of Education as Formal Discipline and with Dewey's doctrine of Education as Growth, where industrial arts had its origins, to formulate successful programs. (AJ)