Teachers sometimes need reminding that job training for business has a two-fold purpose--the actual training for the specific job and the personality development needed to succeed in that job. (Author)

The current trend toward filling the child with a lot of information and teaching him skills needs to be examined for long-range effects on individual development. (CK)

The best kind of professional situation is one in which decision making is decentralized at the point where the action takes place. (CK)

Analysis of recently developed concepts in business and govermental administration suggests techniques applicable to management of higher education resources. (Editor)

Address given at annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, January 1970) in which the speaker stated that the most needed reform in education today is the reinfusion of an understanding of the use of reason in conducting human affairs. (IR)

Discusses computer-graded examinations as a means of improving test construction, student evaluation, and teacher effectiveness. Mentions that teachers need to be cognizant of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives in preparing examinations. Describes the statistical information obtainable from item analyses, such as difficulty index, phi…

Acceptance of the concept of man as a rational animal is fundamental to an understanding of what it means to become human. (JH)

Discusses assessment procedures, progress, major criticisms, and general support of the long range research program initiated in 1968 to evaluate the nation's educational system. (JK)

Satiric essay which alleges that computer assisted instruction is often a process so wrapped up in itself that it loses sight of the needs of the student. (LS)