This report provides information on total Federal Research and Development (R and D) expenditures during the period of 1960-72. The report is divided into two parts. Part I gives an overall view of priorities funded by the Federal government. The total Federal R and D expenditures are arranged by functions. In addition, a brief statistical account…

These criteria, developed by the Louisiana Right to Read Commission, provide a statement of standards for a quality reading program. It is against these criteria that a school can evaluate its current program. Of the 25 criteria, 5 are related to the pupil, 17 are directed to the professional staff, and 3 are concerned with the local community.…

A survey of staff and student attitudes toward selected innovative approaches to learning that had been in operation for four years was conducted. The population surveyed comprised the entire Bettendorf, Iowa, Middle School staff and student body. Questionnaires were developed to elicit pertinent staff and student opinions toward (a) space…

This report, in addition to being a final report for an NIE grant awarded to the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning, summarizes the strategies, efforts, and results of implementing Individually Guided Education (IGE) nationally since 1971. Chapter 2 of this report (Chapter 1 is an introduction.) briefly describes the…

The California Right to Read program is for schools interested in changing or revising their reading programs. Right to Read offers services and materials designed to guide schools through program planning. This approach is based on the philosophy that California Right to Read can most effectively serve a school by working with its staff to plan…

This report provides information on total federal research and development (R and D) funding by function during the fiscal years 1969-74. The report is divided into two parts. Part 1 gives an overall view of priorities funded by the federal government. The total federal R and D expenditures are arranged by functions and are listed in descending…

This booklet is a guide to research done on More Effective Schools (MES) through April, 1969. The Bureau of Educational Research of the New York City Board of Education found that the mean gain in reading comprehension of MES students over non-MES students ranged from 2.5 to 4.5 school months relating to the period studied. The booklet summarizes…

The author discusses "post-work education" opportunities in Norway (that is, education available to those who have previously completed their schooling and have since been otherwise occupied), and outlines directions which permanent education may be expected to take. He stresses the role which existing educational institutions, and…

The authors present a framework depicting an evaluation-decision sequence, describe each of the evaluation stages, and note the relationships between evaluation information and subsequent decisions. In Chart I, the four major decision areas and the five kinds of evaluation which provide information for decisions in each of these areas are…

Included in the directory of special education personnel in state agencies are the names and addresses of chief state school officers, directors of special education and their staff, and the primary administrators of state-federal programs for handicapped children. Lists are provided for all 50 states and seven protectorates or specified areas.…

Analyzed are the results from a follow-up of two groups of college students: (1) a sample of 400 students who started 9th grade in 1958 and graduate from high school in 1962, and (2) a sample of 728 students who were in high school from 1959 to 1963. Both samples were limited to those students who had continued on to college. The purposes of this…

TRIGEM, a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course developed as a part of Project TAPS (Teaching Anatomy with Programed Schematics) is designed to teach the anatomy of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve. This course is currently operational on the Harvard CAI System which uses an IBM S 360/Model 65 as the central processor, either…

This collection of 120 project resumes is a survey of programs, projects, and activities in progress at the National Coordination Center and at each of the seven centers associated with the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education. Each resume is coded according to laboratory category and name of center involved. The title of each specific…

This report summarizes the major conclusions of the Aviation Briefing for Community Colleges, which met to establish dialogue between community colleges and the aviation industry. Included are: (1) an overview of community college aviation, covering the topics of the aviation industry, the rationale for aviation in the community college, the types…

The adult school counselor's function is to facilitate interaction between the educational needs of the counseled, his circumstances as he sees them, his goals, and the means to reach them. He must provide sufficient information to the counseled to facilitate his making realistic choices. The Handbook for Community Adult School Counselors,…