A program to increase and encourage literacy in Tanzania is described: traditional stories were related by tribal elders, tape recorded, translated into the national language, printed, and distributed to individuals just learning to read. Cultural relevance of the stories should promote interest in continued reading. (AV)

A protocol is an instrument that directs the user in the collection and recording of data necessary for the management of a specific medical problem, designed to permit practitioners to treat patients without a physician visit or for pre-physician consultation. (MM)

Presents a theoretical model of the classroom by placing the model in historical perspective and discussing its implications for training professionals such as teachers, counselors and others to work within the model and to influence subsequent direction of the educational process. (Author/AM)

Describes a self-awareness process that enables the teacher to teach cognitive coping rather than to discipline children. The process involves playing the Okazi Word Game, keeping a coping diary, the teacher coding his own behavior as well as the childrens using the Coping Behaviors Index, and task analysis. (Author/AM)

A seminar designed to ease school integration tension reveals that teacher/student attitudes and concern can cause problems as well as solve them. The seminar also shows teachers that there is a difference between black and white culture. (Author/AM)

Notes that in the process of desegregation, the district has retained the neighborhood flavor of schools with expanded community, paired and clustered schools, and has used magnet type programs to encourage peripheral area white students to opt for programs in the central city. (Author/AM)

Student achievement can be assessed by demonstration, direct observation, unobtrusive measures, oral tests, self-ratings and reports, and on-the-job performance in addition to paper-and-pencil tests. Resulting information can be used for planning, counseling, diagnosing, evaluating, classifying, and grading. An extensive bibliography is appended.…

Describes the techniques used in cadre training schools to emphasize criticism of Lin Piao and his counterrevolutionary beliefs. (AV)

Maintains that medical students should learn more about psychology. Briefly describes why medical students have not learned more about psychology, discusses the aspects of psychology most relevant to the needs of medical students, and suggests teaching formats to accomplish this goal. (JR)

Concepts involved in the various methods of individualization of instruction are not out of reach in the sub-optimal setting, but adjustments in implementation of the methodology are necessary. (MJB)

Attempts to specify how far recent changes in educational history have taken us and to offer a critical assessment of its effect on philosophy instruction. (Author/RK)

The author describes a very successful campaign to publicize National Vocational Education Week 1977 in Dearborn, Michigan through messages on business and industry marquees, posters in store windows, newspaper stories and pictures, and radio and television announcements, including a calendar of promotion events for advance planning. (MF)

Examines criteria useful in deciding which instructional strategy is optimally appropriate for a given training program. Topics include instructional strategy and training design, curriculum-oriented criteria, organization need and environment, behavioral goals, and nature of the learner, objectives, and curriculum. (TA)

Values clarification, a relatively new form of humanistic education, was compared with a traditional lecture-discussion approach to teaching a survey course in health science to undergraduates. It was concluded that the objectives of a survey course in health science may be equally attained by either of the instructional procedures. (Author)