The conference described in this report was designed to explore fundamentally important aspects of educating 3- through 13-year-old children in a variety of school settings. A total of 250 participants, representing 17 states, attended. This volume provides the text of a conference paper by Melvin D. Levine, M.D., entitled "The Challenge of…

A discussion was held on movement education on the opening day of the 1981 conference on Contemporary Elementary and Middle School Physical Education at Georgia State University. A precis is given of the questions considered--what is movement education, what is the status of movement education as a trend, and what is the future of movement…

The conference is divided into three sections: (1) constructing examinations so that they will be valid measures of important functions; (2) defining the nature of the verbal factor as used in aptitude test batteries; and (3) establishing the type of norms most useful and important for the interpretation of achievement test scores. Papers are…