THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A SYNTHESIS OF THE CURRENT LITERATURE RELATED TO THE TOPIC OF TEACHER AND LEADER TRAINING AND RECUITMENT RATHER THAN AN ANALYSIS OF EMPIRICAL DATA. IN GENERAL, THE PERSONNEL PROBLEM IN HIGHER ADULT EDUCATION IS EXAMINED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE GROWTH OF THE FIELD, PERSONNEL NEEDS, THE NEED FOR TRAINING, THE AIMS OF…

CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK ARE INTERPRETATIONS OF PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS PRESENTED AT THE "THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EDUCATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL PHYSICIST" WHICH WAS HELD IN LONDON IN JULY, 1965, AND WAS ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM 25 COUNTRIES. THE MATERIAL WAS EDITED, AND ORGANIZED TO STRESS THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCES IN…

RATINGS OF THE LEADER'S INITIATION OF STRUCTURE AND CONSIDERATION WERE OBTAINED FROM 36 INTERCULTURAL DISCUSSION GROUPS OF ONE AMERICAN AND ONE INDIAN GRADUATE STUDENT PLUS AN AMERICAN LEADER. RATINGS OF GROUP ATMOSPHERE, ESTEEM FOR LEADER, AND LEADER EFFECTIVENESS WERE ALSO OBTAINED AFTER EACH GROUP COMPLETED AN INTERCULTURAL NEGOTIATION TASK AND…

Chief officers of the Association of Departments of English, the Modern Language Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English met in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 17-18, 1968, to determine what recommendations might be made for doctoral programs in English Education. The conclusions reached were based on surveys of existing…

PRESENTED AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW YORK CITY LABOR MARKET ARE FACTS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF YOUTHS IN THE 16- TO 24-YEAR-OLD AGE GROUP WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED AND NOT IN SCHOOL AND ABOUT THE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT OF NEW YORK CITY YOUTH. A COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOL ATTAINMENT AND EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF WHITE AND NONWHITE YOUTH IS…

Using a systems approach to determine the relationship between modernization and education, data were analyzed from questionnaire responses returned by the chief administrators of 1,124 public high schools. The schools were a selected sample of the schools attended by the 28,000 pupils included in the October 1965, educational supplement of the…

This digest provides statistical information covering the entire field of American education from kindergarten through the graduate school. It utilizes materials from numerous sources, including statistical surveys and estimates of USOE and other appropriate agencies, both governmental and nongovernmental. Information is presented on a wide…

This publication contains a variety of tables presenting national enrollment, teacher, graduate, and expenditure data for 1965-66 through 1975-76 and projections for 1976-77 through 1985-86. Included are tables of enrollment in elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher education, tables of number of high school graduates and…

This is the 58th annual report on collegiate enrollments. The 1,710 institutions surveyed in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and related territories reported a total of 7,238,547 collegiate-level credit-hour students (5,120,475 full-time and 2,118,072 part-time). The surveyed institutions include responding 4-year and upper-division colleges, universities…

The effectiveness of vocational education at New York State's public two-year colleges was investigated during spring 1976. Part one of the project was a follow-up study of 1970-71 and 1973-74 graduates to ascertain their success in job or transfer placement within fields for which they were trained, salary and job mobility patterns, and opinions…

This paper describes the development of a system for assessing transfer program outcomes (TPO), using the effort at Oakton Community College (OCC) as an example. While originally designed to provide timely information on senior institutions as experienced by transfer students, TPO appeared to do considerably more. System highlights included more…

Results are summarized of a study conducted to determine whether certain characteristics of medical school students can be used as predictors in determining: the career choice between academic medicine and clinical practice, primary versus non-primary care, the geographic distribution of physicians, the distribution of manpower into the various…

The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude and Advanced Tests were evaluated as predictors of a dichotomous criterion of whether or not the candidate attained the doctorate within a specified length of time. More specifically, the project attempted to define subgroups for which the GRE tests have varying degrees of validity, and to provide…

The Brazilian National Plan for Graduate Studies aims at achieving a combination of training activities at the graduate level to be developed at the various institutions of higher education and research. The current situation is reviewed in terms of stabilization, performance, and development problems. Objectives and general directives include:…

In the present stage of development of the Brazilian university system, graduate studies are assuming a role of increasing strategic importance with repercussions of a multiple dimension in the national growth process. This report presents a general view of the First National Plan of Graduate Studies (PNPG), of the Institutional Program for…