Within 3-tier behavioral models, universal interventions are expected to prevent the onset of problem behavior in a majority of children altogether and to sustain improvements in child outcomes by the selected and indicated interventions. A cohort longitudinal design was used to assess the extent to which a 3-tier model achieves these expected…

This report is an annual update on education statistics for member countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the cooperation of UNESCO and the Statistical Office of the European Union. Some changes from earlier versions of "Education in OECD Countries" are introduced in this edition. Data comes from…

This document analyzes the institutional arrangements governing the size, nature, and directions of the educational research and development (R&D) efforts in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The main themes of the present survey are the explicit or implicit goals of educational R&D, its relation to…

This publication contains reports, papers, and presentations from the International Seminar on Research in Adult Education and Development. The keynote address, The Role (Past, Present, and Future) of Adult Education in Development, reviews the five-year Design for Action from the 1976 International Conference on Adult Education and Development.…

Since the 1940's, Operation Bootstrap, an economic development program, has changed Puerto Rico from an undeveloped country to one with increasing energy demands, decreasing natural resources, and alarming environmental degredation. The Puerto Rican government is presently supporting high-energy industrial facilities without regard to…

Major steps of the change process include research, development, diffusion, and adoption, each with its specific objective and relation to change. Each of these steps can be further categorized into a number of particular activities by which each step is accomplished. The kinds of educational research performed in the United States are influenced…

This document, ninth in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to providing training for educational research and development personnel, deals with the task of developing instructional materials. The document is organized according to the sequential steps involved in performing the task. Step 1, planning the size and order of learning…

This document, last in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook providing training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, provides a glossary of technical terms used in this program. Each entry includes: (a) a definition; (b) appropriate cross references; and (c) a reference to appropriate…

This report presents a series of recommendations for the development of public policy for the State of Ohio affecting higher education in the 1970's. The recommendations are more specifically related to: (1) the State and private higher education; (2) enrollment, admission, and student assistance; (3) the structure of public higher education in…

Reports that a mother's perception of her newborn infant frequently predicts how well the child will adjust in later childhood. The more positive the mother perceives the child, the more emotionally healthy the child will later become. (SL)

Outlines Research and Development appropriations for fiscal year 1978 which have been passed by Congress. (SL)

Implications for social work with families are presented after a consideration of the developmental tasks of the family and its members. Developmental areas emphasized are adult development, transitional points between developmental tasks, family life cycle tasks, and the influence of successful crisis resolution upon later development. (Author/DB)

The article explores the interaction of music and language: common characteristics, parallel development, and benefits from concurrent study. The author contends that music study enhances intellectual development, creativity, and verbal communication. (PHR)

In line with other public sector provision, the English school system has been subject to modernization since the advent of the New Labour government in 1997. This article views the reform of education in the light of the movement towards new public management and traces the process of the reform of workforce remodeling that has seen the shedding…