Angoff and Schrader find serious statistical flaws in Albanese's index when applied to their data. After careful consideration of a reanalyses made by Albanese and interpretations, they stand firm in their original conclusion that formula scores are essentially invariant under different testing directions. (Author/LMO)

Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service is described. It is a national, action-oriented effort to increase student community service by centralizing and increasing access to public service information, heightening awareness of public service, and reducing the disincentives now discouraging students from volunteer work. (MLW)

The same care must go into recruiting volunteers as paid personnel. Once the right volunteers have been recruited, there needs to be a systematic approach to retaining and rewarding them. A guide to obtaining, training, and maintaining, the best alumni volunteers is presented. (MLW)

Explains how a student volunteer can improve teachers' productivity, efficiency, and teaching skills. Presents a description of job responsibilities.(EL)

Reports the results of a survey of primary school head teachers in England carried out in order to take a broad "sounding" of mainstream practice with respect to volunteer help with reading within schools. (DF)

Postsecondary institutions should participate much more in the federal initiative, through their usual functions of teaching, research, and service. Activities could include involving college students in adult literacy education through demonstration programs, tutoring, and student volunteerism. (MSE)

A survey was conducted in 1983 of community workers in the United Kingdom to find out how many community workers there were, and who employed them, and to obtain some information on their characteristics such as training, age, sex, and ethnic background. This article reflects on the survey findings. (CT)

CASE's 1984 Volunteer of the Year award went to Frank Owen Heywood Williams for his work with Renbrook School, where he founded a Grandparents' Group six years ago. He has raised funds for colleges, independent schools, hospitals, ballet companies, music festivals, and political parties (MLW)

A national study surveyed (1) extent to which state and local programs serve the most in need, (2) less expensive nontraditional approaches to instruction, and (3) state regulations that act as barriers. Found that most of the efforts are in nontraditional settings, correspondence courses are successful and less costly alternative, and most…

Findings showed that students with little or no previous experience with exceptional children changed their attitudes in a positive direction as a result of doing volunteer work. Many students reported wanting to do more volunteer work in the future, and some continued volunteering their services. (RM)

The Braille Institute's Community Outreach Program provides adventitiously blinded older adults with opportunities to volunteer in local community agencies, schools, and hospitals upon completion of the institute's special education program. Students use new independence skills in a functional social environment, thereby increasing their…

The Ambassador Program, Buena Vista College's official alumni recruitment group, is described. The program operates on two levels: student and alumni ambassadors. Although conducting tours was the main thrust of the student organization, members now participate in other activities. (MLW)

Questions whether role loss significantly influences volunteering, based on data from a sample of 4,339 older adults. Findings suggested that other social characteristics such as socioeconomic status and gender have a greater influence on volunteer patterns. (JAC)

The College of St. Thomas and St. Paul Ramsey Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, instituted in the fall of 1975 a cooperative program for premedical students that encompassed a volunteer program during the school semester and a Nursing Assistant Training Program during the college's interim period. The benefits of this program are described. (LBH)

This study investigated three innovative group mentoring programs and examined findings from data collected in two earlier studies of mentoring programs. The three programs were YouthFriends, which provided technical assistance to school districts establishing school-based mentoring programs; TEAMWORKS, which organized teams of mentors to meet…