Adult education administrators should constantly work toward effective utilization of time. Administrative effectiveness is a function of the relationship between goals and outcomes, both of which are conditioned by time. Suggests ways that administrators could make more effective use of their time. (EM)

The Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) required for all handicapped students by P.L. 94-142 is described. The implementation process set forth in the legislation is summarized, and the time line requirements are discussed. Finally, guidelines for the participants in the process are presented. A sample IEP form is also included. (BM)

This study examines the development of children's understanding of temporal cycles and the relationship between cyclic concepts and cognitive development. A sample of 62 children, ranging in age from 4 to 10 years, were administered Piagetian tests of classification and seriation and a variety of specially designed cyclic tasks. (Author/JMB)

This research finds that the experience of time-in-passing is an inverse function of the processing demanded by a concurrent task. An attentional model is suggested and evaluated against the literature. (Editor/RK)

Discussed is the art teacher's role in dealing with the elementary level student with dystraphia, a dysfunction in the ability to coordinate hand movements in the process of representing a certain design. (SBH)

This discussion of how conditions of the recipient can affect effectiveness of feedback presents an overview of the topic (feedback functions and feedback about what, when, by whom, and types), and discusses factors affecting formative feedback, i.e., recipients' discrimination repertoires and self-monitoring behavior development in…

Examines the conversational behavior of eight-year-old Hawaiian boys and girls of either Caucasian or Japanese descent in same ethnic and same-gender pairs or in mixed-ethnic and/or mixed-gender pairs. Results suggest that temporal speech patterns are stable characteristics of children's vocal behavior, and that these conversational rhythms vary…

Problems experienced by mildly handicapped students include visual perceptual and visual motor problems, inability to use and organize time, poor notetaking and outlining skills, and deficient reading vocabulary and writing skills. What the social studies teacher can do to alleviate each of these problems is discussed. (RM)

It is proposed that failures in institutional planning are linked to institutional time perspective, that altering the time perspective of faculty and staff can promote more effective planning, and that competence in assessing and changing an institution's time perspective can be developed by administrators. (MSE)

Results are discussed in terms of the facilitory effect on waiting of the perception of a decrease in temporal distance from a goal. (Authors)

The nature of silence is discussed as an imposition of mind, as an interdependent signification ground for speech signs, as a relationship to mental time (as opposed to artificial time), and as it relates to sensation, perception and metaphorical movement. (Author)

Revised version of a paper presented at the 79th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlantic City, N.J., April 21-24, 1970; research supported in part by the Science Research Council (U.K.) and by the National Institutes of Health. (RS)

Study found that auditory experience has an indirect influence on rhythm perception, but auditory involvement during the task does not. (Authors/MB)