According to this memorandum, from 1963-1967 all 50 states adopted laws that required certain groups of people to notify public authorities of suspected child maltreatment. In all but a few states, a child is defined as anyone under the age of 18. By May of 1980, all states but Vermont had reporting statutes that mandate reporting by teachers,…

The elusive phenomenon of individual learning differences was probed via the concepts of transfer and practice at different stages of the learning process. Order of presentation of two films covering different subjects provided the transfer task. Practice was introduced by five repetitions of the films, interspersed among six repetitions of an…

This handbook on teacher recruitment makes suggestions for school systems to follow in all facets of recruiting. Changes in school age population, school program requirements, and teacher turnover are analyzed in a discussion of how to estimate teacher needs. Since recruitment materials are essential in attracting prospective applicants, the…

To provide a basis on which to determine space required in the public higher education institutions of Pennsylvania, the State Commission on Academic Facilities developed an instruction manual for a method of inventorying physical facilities by building and room. The building inventory and the room inventory are presented as separate sections,…

To discover how costs affect quality, 16 different methods of computing educational costs are developed and correlated with a cluster of "quality related" factors (QRC). Data for the correlation were obtained from 1,055 city school districts in 48 states. The QRC is composed of staffing adequacy variables, measures of teacher quality, and…

The problem-solving models described in this paper were selected because they offer nontechnological alternatives to solving school district problems, because they solicit and respect the opinions of involved workers and clients, and because each model has several variant forms that can be applied to many different kinds of problems. The three…

This paper describes the Student Perceptions Survey (SPS), a simplified, pragmatic, and nontechnical approach to inventorying student needs and student perceptions of available help on the campus. A literature review on assessing institutional environments and the developmental tasks of college age students is provided. The SPS incorporates the…

Making a case for initiation of a systematic methodology that would predict and evaluate the potential social ramifications of scientific research, this monograph presents: (1) a review of the general lack of social concern among scientific researchers and rationale for utilization of scientific agricultural research as initiator of social…

The purpose of this manual is to describe critical techniques and components that should be considered in a comprehensive program planning and evaluation system. It contains a general introductory section followed by sections on performance objectives, general assessment techniques, assessment techniques in the affective domain, process…

The basic concepts, practices, and considerations in assessment are outlined in order to provide the reader with a beginning knowledge of assessment techniques and procedures. Discussion includes the goals of assessment, types of tests, criteria for instrument selection, test construction, data collection procedures, and statistical analysis of…

The relationships between the characteristics of human tasks and the abilities required for task performance are investigated. The goal of the program is to generate principles which can be used to identify ability requirements from knowledge of the characteristics of a task and of variations in the conditions of task performance. Such knowledge…

This paper describes some major implications of the ComField projections for the planning and evaluation of a teacher education program, under the following headings: 1) society's need for education; 2) education's response to society's needs; 3) emergent goals, curriculum, organization, and personnel roles; 4) the generic functions and training…

The following topics are the subject of capsule summaries of Upward Bound (UB) program techniques that make up the major portion of this book, having been compiled from information submitted by project staff, consultants, and others who have seen Upward Bound in action during the past four years: recruiting students; curriculum, including…

The shooting and hunting manual, part of a series of books and pamphlets on outdoor education, explains shooting skills, hunting, and proper gun handling on the range and in the field. This manual should be supplemented and enriched by available references, facilities, and resources. It may be included in the community's educational and…

The paper describes various methods that are being tried to provide learning experiences for northern Canadian children. Although there is no blueprint for northern education, there are some basic guidelines. Since the Northwest Territories (NWT) is a multilingual, multicultural society, relevant curricula have to be written in such a way as to…