Recommends use of entries from the information retrieval diary of Ted Crump, expert technical translator at the National Institute of Health, in the construction of computer models showing how expert translators solve problems of ambiguity in language. Expert and inexpert translation systems, eponyms, abbreviations, and alphabetic solutions are…

The article describes revisions in the Field Study Interaction Approach (FSIA), a noncategorical teacher education approach combining increased practicum experience and competency based instruction with affective components related to self concept. Results of a second study of FSIA are reported. (CL)

Examines the major reasons for the slow pace of institutionalization of environmental education in schools. Offers the Regional Environmental Learning System (RELS) as a model of a coordinating base for program evaluation and maintenance. Also identifies this concept's specific characteristics and its set of primary roles. (ML)

Describes some of the implications of the microcomputer revolution for Cornell University and the strategy developed to deal with the resulting changes. The computing environment at Cornell, administrative structure of Cornell computer services, and computing models for the 1970s and 1980s are among the topics considered. (JN)

The evolution of administrative data processing systems at the University of Georgia is summarized. Nolan's revised stage model was used as a framework to present the university's experience and relate it to the growing body of system implementation research. (Author/MLW)

Studies show a lack of evaluation as a fundamental element of curriculum design in further education. To this end, a model is proposed and its advantages outlined. The importance of relevant evaluative skills as objectives within college staff development programs is discussed. (CT)

Integration of language/communication objectives across the preschool day involves 6 steps: (1) determining language/communication objectives of students, (2) determining most appropriate model for integrating each language/communication objective, (3) determining settings for integration, (4) assigning staff responsibilities, (5) developing and…

Describes multimodal consultation, a problem-solving approach that analyzes the components of multifaceted, multisubsystem referral problems. The approach, which is exemplified within the ecological perspective, consists of five parts, from the identification of maladaptive interactions to the evaluation of consultation interventions that target…

Suggests an innovative group structure and process for integrating health care providers and elderly consumers in community health care planning, implementation, and evaluation. The Elderly Health Advocacy Group is described and its developmental processes outlined. Further demonstration for long-range impact is suggested. (Author)

The paper describes the development of an interactive computer training program (COMP-TREX) that uses microcomputer technology in a nonthreatening way and that has proven successful in classroom applicants with learning disabled students. Use of the Super Pilot software system in language processing is discussed. (CL)

Presents a consultation model that can serve to diminish the destructive impact of the adversarial process in child custody decisions. The process and procedures described are consonant with what most state statutes suggest as criteria for consideration in custody decisions and promote the best interests of the children. (JAC)

Teachers never do finish learning. Once on the job, what learning will do them and their students the most good? This article offers some suggestions and some hopes that the discussion of ways, means, and whys will really begin. (Editor)

The educator must create an environment or take advantage of an existing one where there are the kinds of problems that require, for their successful resolution, the cooperative exchange of those skills and strategies that constitute the ethnic heritage of the various individuals and subgroups in that classroom or school. (Author)

Offers a brief description of the overall activities and methods employed in Project SWEP and provides some detail on the ways in which a futures-orientation and methods associated with futures studies were used in the project. (Author/IRT)

Considers the structural components essential to programs of Indivisualized Instruction, leading to a model of a generalized computer managed instruction system. (JY)