The 20 articles presented are under three classifications: general philosophy, methodology, and case studies. The articles are: The World House: Building a Qualitative Environment for All the World's Children by Alice Miel; Accepting the Selves of Others: People Around the World by Leonard S. Kenworthy; Universality of Differences by Margaret L.…

One of a series of books that reprints significant articles, excerpts from books, and monographs that deal philosophically with problems in education is presented. The point is made that the distinctive feature of this series is that the selection of materials and their organization are based to a large extent on the results of a three-year…

A questionnaire designed to obtain information about English in the two-year college is presented. Specific objectives include: (1) to identify and study the unique problems of the two-year college and the ways in which the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) may assist…

This study was designed to consider effects of age, sex, intelligence, lateral usage, and lateral awareness on young children's performance of spatial organization tasks. The sample consisted of 79 Caucasian, middle socioeconomic status nursery school children (mean C.A. 57.80, S.D. 4.47 months), 44 boys and 35 girls. Spatial organization was…

"Algorithmic counseling" is an attempt to apply recent instructional regulation techniques to graduate counselor training and research. This paper seeks to explain what algorithms are, why they could be useful, and how they can be constructed. A central motivation for studying algorithms is their utility in showing students how to accomplish a…

This document reports on the 1974-75 Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) evaluation investigating the cognitive and affective responses of USMES students to this interdisciplinary, process curriculum. It includes the results of a pre-post control group design to assess the curriculum's effects on students' basic skill…

Methods and procedures which should be used by an Advanced Institutional Development Program grantee college in selecting an assisting agency or a consulting firm to provide assistance in the areas of academic program and administrative capacity improvement are recommended and include: (1) the college should devote considerable time and thought to…

This paper reviews selected literature about social studies skills and discusses results of a preliminary survey about the status of skills programs in elementary and secondary schools. More than 15 yearbooks and methods texts published in the 1960s and 1970s are described. "Skill Development in Social Studies," published in 1963 by the National…

The development and implementation of a written instructional strategy for planned change leading to the integration of the personal growth dimension and the intellectual growth dimension in the classroom is described in this paper. The strategy, based on intervention by data survey feedback and problem solving, was utilized with five freshman…

The purposes of this study were to design a model for promoting and guiding the development of a systematic approach to coordinating program planning in vocational education between the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) and its feeder high schools; to identify problem areas in articulation and achieve a consensus on priority…

Instruction in electrocardiogram interpretation was provided for students at the University of Calgary by distributing complete cardiograms to them at the beginning of the week, for nine weeks, followed by analysis by an instructor at the end of the week. Skill development, reinforcement, course evaluation, and student satisfaction are described.

The processes of self-control involved in solving complex human problems consist of conscious effort, focused attention and choice between conflicting alternatives. Viewed as a complex set of specific teachable skills, self-control can be learned by clients and others if structured learning experiences are provided. (Author)

Available from: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, New Jersey 07648. Two groups (36 Ss) of educable and trainable mentally retarded adolescents in an institution were compared with two groups (38 Ss) of nonretarded children (ages 8-9 years old) on a modified tic-tac-toe game for foresight in logical problem solving. (MH)

A school nurse must often meet varied demands of students, school personnel, and parents; if she has a clear perception of her role and its limits and takes every opportunity for developing her own potential, she is in a unique position to assume a role of major importance in the pupil personnel team within the school. (JD)

Discusses the possibility of having chemistry students do their own computer programing that could then be used to solve problems in general chemistry. Describes such an effort at Eastern Washington University. Provides examples of some of the student programs and printouts. (TW)