The author emphasizes the need for further developing Applied Behavioral Science and applying it to problems in education. (HMD)

This study represents an attempt to examine ways in which anxiety, achievement and affiliation motivation and dogmatism influence the academic performance of undergraduates under structured instructional conditions. The study provides strong supporting evidence for the notion that personality patterns do influence academic achievement under the…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possible changes that could occur in knowledge and interest when a lecture-demonstration approach is reinforced with an outdoor experience. (Author)

The school as an organization has certain peculiarities which pose particular problems of management. There are a number of interlinked problems which need analysis: control over 'work flow', structural looseness, a professional work-force, 'information flow', boundaries control, and management of innovation. (Author)

At Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, five busses are being utilized to transport students to and from college, while at the same time providing the equipment and materials needed to permit students to pursue their regular course objectives while traveling. (Author/PG)

If faculty members can adapt to the insecurity of an innovative college or program, they should be able to cope effectively with the turbulence of modern life in general. (Editor)

The initial effort to apply the Keller plan model of individualized learning to teaching research methods in sociology is described. (Author/KM)

The authors find that educational innovations persist in drawings on the basic analogy of school to factory, with students as raw materials to be fashioned into appropriate products. American schooling, they conclude, is a grim national business. (Editor)

Student life was considered as it embraced student societies and the change in student attitudes towards those societies was noted. (RK)

In order to serve youths and adults who could benefit from technical education, Technical Education Research Centers were established. This article described the program development of four projects under TERC. (Author/RK)

An introductory course in technology was added to the basic curriculum of the Open University in order to emphasize the creative activity of design and to understand complex systems such as the environment or an industry. ( author/KM)

Results of a study for the purpose of recording several behaviors thought to be significant to the philosophy of an open classroom at the primary grade level. (Editor)

The dean of the future should have as his academic discipline that of futurism, which is predicated on a wholistic view. (Author)

Describes the development of a Medical House Staff Group Practice at the University of Rochester Medical Center in lieu of the "traditional" outpatient program for house officers of the Department of Medicine. (Author)