The concept of adult education for family planning is examined, and a strategy for program development in developing nations is suggested. Experience suggests that learning in groups is generally the most effective means for changing attitudes and behavior, but the skills necessary for participation in learning groups outside family and…

The report by the President's Committee on Mental Retardation describes 12 exemplary programs which focus on the prevention of mental retardation or the returning of institutionalized persons to the community, and offers six recommendations for federal action. Introductory material examines trends such as increased public recognition of the…

In fall 1969, the University of Minnesota Medical School implemented a new curriculum and the option for students of graduation in either 3 or 4 years as an experiment designed to decrease the shortage of practicing physicians. The purpose of this paper is to describe similarities and differences between 3 and 4 year graduates. The results of the…

The number of academic consortia, cooperating groups of institutions, have exploded in recent years in response to several societal and internal forces. While others have examined aspects of consortia, this paper reports the first intensive effort dealing with effectiveness. The study is divided into 2 parts: (1) What constitutes consortium…

This study examined some effects of Minicourse 5--a remedial mathematics tutoring package--on tutoring skills of teachers of educable mentally retarded children and on subsequent mathematics performance levels of their students. The design of the study included an experimental group of teachers who participated in Minicourse 5 along with…

A course is presented which is designed for a student functioning as low as grade four level or with gaps in his knowledge at a very low level, to orient student to program and provide experience in learning skills associated with program materials and instructional support facilities within the training center complex. Following the learning…

The proceedings of the Bergamo Conference called by the Division for Adult Education of the United States Catholic Conference are contained in this report. Included in this report are papers presented at the conference and summaries of workshops; agendas and rosters are contained in the appendices. Some of the papers are presented entirely and…

Examined is a 2 year program in which itinerant teachers provided preparatory educational experiences to preschool visually handicapped children and demonstrated specific educational techniques to parents. Explained are: procedures of identification, referral, interviewing and instruction; use of paraprofessionals, mobility specialists, and…

The development of an integrated national plan of information services is the topic of the provisional final report of the seminar which is in Spanish. The accompanying five-page declaration, conclusions and recommendations, in English, implicitly include concepts which will permit the drawing up of a national information policy. The Seminar…

Definitions, standards, and activities of good day care are outlined in question and answer form in this evaluation booklet. Topics included are: services of the family day care home and the day care center; the availability and offerings of day care; types of children who need it; ways it can help; financial arrangements; and daily routines of…

The functional integration of maternal and child health (MCH) services with family planning programs in rural areas is discussed in this report. Suggestions for the successful implementation of research demonstration projects are provided. Evaluation procedures are discussed in terms of collection of pre-project information, service statistics,…

This handbook describes the history, objectives and operations of the Resource Development Internship Project (RDIP), a project designed to simultaneously strengthen the educational process and increase the number of skilled personnel working on development problems by placing upper division and graduate students--students who already have the…

Five study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this fourth problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The subject matter is related to electric charges, insulators, Coulomb's law, electric fields, lines of force, solid angles, conductors, motion of charged particles, dipoles, electric flux,…

Four study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this fifth problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The subject matter is related to work in electric fields, potential differences, parallel plates, electric potential energies, potential gradients, capacitances, and capacitor circuits.…

Four study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this sixth problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The subject matter is related to electric currents, current densities, resistances, Ohm's law, voltages, Joule heating, electromotive forces, single loop circuits, series and parallel…