A test battery was prepared for use in assessing the effectiveness of Head Start and similar programs in fostering young children's development. The instruments were designed to measure program effects on several dimensions of the cognitive, social-emotional, and applied strategies domains. Specific competencies measured are presumed to define in…

Papers on national bibliographies and bibliographic control, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "Bibliographic Control of IFLA Publications: Retrospective and Current" by Mona Madsen (Denmark), which outlines types of IFLA documents, existing bibliographies,…

Describes a variety of nutrition instruction programs. (IRT)

Suggests that evaluations of compensatory education programs must take into account the goals of the programs, amount and concentration of funding, obstacles surmounted in their implementation, length of affective and cognitive results, and avoid the cost/benefit approach to human beings. (Author/AM)

The article describes the Illinois Nurses' Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (INA-CERP), a voluntary system which provides credit for approved course offerings and an official record of continuing education achievements for individual nurses. The program's administrative staff and the method of processing programs for credit…

A session in drawing at the school boiler room provided motivation and a new look at the definition of art for a seventh grade art class. (RK)

The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and the School of Pharmacy developed and presented, as a pilot project, a series of four telelectures at 10 locations throughout the State. Participating pharmacists were receptive to the approach and reported favorable reactions in the evaluation. (LH)

Describes a successful inservice training program in which family day care mothers were encouraged to share ideas and problems, and to have more self-confidence. Includes a bibliography. (ED)

Project Open is an industrial-arts curriculum development effort designed to open up opportunities for West Virginia students to study the nature of technology and its effect on man and society. (Author)

Describes a reading program based on community-school cooperation. (RB)

Article described the development of European Architectural Heritage Year and its offspring, the art and life of ordinary people who give a heart and soul to that architectural heritage. (RK)

Describes a resource center of an experimental education program in which staff members show children how to find people and places to learn from in the community and how to become independent learners. (ED)

Author looked at one self-help project which has tried to deal with the problems experienced by black youth. (Editor/RK)