"The purpose of this paper has been...to advocate one particular use of prediction, namely: to assess the validity of educational operations, and thereby facilitate the achievement of stated instructional outcomes. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association as part of a symposium on the Prediction of…

By the past chairman of ALA's Committee on Organization. "Restructuring can be sensitive to membership desires for greater representation, more responsive budgeting authority, and simpler organizational structure, but it cannot completely change the direction or thrust of organizational activities. The membership must decide on the basic…

Discusses the proposition that: "The educational problem involved in behavior modification, in the evaluationand measurement of learning, is the integration and coordination of three types of information affecting the achievement of specific behavioral goals: (1) information about the child, (2) information about the task, and (3) information…

Educators need to come to grips with the question of what ought to be in this world instead of merely drifting with the tides of change. (CK)

After postulating that anxiety commits the individual to the psychological present, to the detriment of long-range cognitive projections, a series of three data collections are presented. The clearest support for a cognitive interpretation of anxiety is to be noted in the disturbed future time perspective, which all three data collections support.…

Discusses the place and need for environmental education and proposes several items any master plan must consider: (1) statement of needs, (2) presentation of supportive data, (3) determination of goals to be achieved, (4) examination of alternative strategies, and (5) selection of ways to insure and evaluate arrival at the goals. (BL)

A criticism of the Tyler approach to learning which states that one must set up goals and rigidly work toward them. The author feels setting objectives restricts the curriculum; predetermined behavior should be the only acceptable kind; ends should arise from teaching activity. (Author/AF)

The author considers the question of whether technology will cause humanization or dehumanization in the schools. He concludes that we can not stop tecchnology; we can only give it direction and purpose. (Author/MS)

Emphasizes that volunteers should supplement and sustain the specialized help needed to realize the Right to Read program, and describes the roles for these volunteers in the program. (MB)

Author gives an in-depth study of AEA; what it has done for the past 20 years and what it should do in the future. (MR)

Ways in which the student may misconstrue a teacher's questions are described. (DB)

The desirable future direction of a liberal education is discussed. (CK)