The ability to visualize student engagement and experience data provides valuable opportunities for learning support and curriculum design. With the rise of the use of learning analytics to provide "actionable intelligence" on students' learning, the challenge is to create visualizations of the data, which are clear and useful to the…

Art educators have recognized the need for environment design awareness as a prerequisite to an improved environment. In considering the interrelated system of people and the places in which they live, this research attempted to identify the factors and concepts that are necessary for understanding human transaction with residential space. A…

This project collected data on the current status of middle schools in the United States. After the compilation of a list of schools meeting the survey definition of middle schools from State departments of education and other sources, a survey instrument was used to secure the following detailed data from a 10 percent random sample (110 schools)…

Enrollment data suggest a careful look at future planning for instructional programs, facilities, faculty, and budgetary allocations. (Editor)

Reports on a survey of accredited library school programs determine their commitment to continuing education, the most common program types, and problems involved in program development. (Author/MBR)

Research supported by a grant from the Cooperative Research Branch, U.S. Office of Education.

Traces development of the problem-based, five-year curriculum of the new medical school at the University of Newcastle (Australia), outlining the events of the three years before it opened and commenting on the experiences of its first year. A timetable of medical problems studied by the students is presented. (Author/JD)

A drug knowledge survey was administered to correctional educators and adult and youth inmates, showing that students perceived their knowledge as superior to teachers'; fewer than one-third overall were confident in their knowledge. Inservice training and curriculum development needs were identified. (JOW)

Article exemplified the usefulness of comparisons of academic achievement between countries with the focus on science education. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the influence of school environment on creativity and examined the interrelationships of creativity, intelligence and curriculum structure. (Author/RK)

Reports research that utilized multidimensional scaling and related analytic procedures to validate the curricular goals of a graduate therapeutic recreation program. Data analysis includes the use of the two-dimensional KYST and PREFMAP spaces. (Author/JD)

This volume contains the results of the first study of the problems associated with using educational television in curriculum planning in the Ivory Coast. The study was conducted in two districts of this African country, one relatively developed and situated in the southern part of the country, and the other more characteristic of the poorer…

Concentrates on the attitudes, values and motives which would be needed by learners to make learning throughout life and in settings other than schools more effective and efficient. This is done by discussing the characteristics of "the lifelong learner". (Author)

Studies of pupils' perceptions of school must give priority to pupils' interpretive processes. In one secondary modern school, this revealed different groups characterized by group perspectives. (Editor)