Describes a water use study-conservation project conducted by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Maryland. Results show a significant decrease in the amount of water used by home customers over a ten-year period. (Author/MA)

Describes a program in which line managers were taught in a reasonable amount of time how to conduct management training programs for other managers. (EM)

An examination of the professional self-concept of student teachers was made during the practicum in a program whose structure seemed likely to minimize its negative effects by providing for gradual transition into teaching, a high level of support from supervisors, and an extended continuous period of teaching. (Author/RK)

Use of the 26 closure may lead to serious problems in the evaluation of counselor performance. This article examines some of the shortcomings, briefly reviews several suggestions for weighting case closure, and introduces two possible weighting methods for case closure. (Author)

The author describes his experience with an educational audit at Laredo Junior College in Texas and says that the audit is a fast, inexpensive way of evaluating vocational programs that provides immediate feedback. (MF)

Training in perspective-taking skills (the ability to imagine how objects look relative to one another from another person's point of view) resulted in considerable transfer of learning to other tasks and continued subject superiority over controls seven months later, indicating an inter-stage change in cognition. (MJB)

When youngsters in a Massachusetts Upward Bound program became disciplinary problems instead of learners, it appeared that the program more than the youngsters needed correcting. (Editor)

Describes and evaluates the organization of French instruction in an Algerian I.T.E. (Institute of Educational Technology). (Text is in French.) (AM)

Describes a successfully pilot-tested planning model that focuses on the decisions that need to be made at the school level. (IRT)

Once admitted to the regular, four-year doctor of medicine program, students with Ph.D science degress may apply to the Medical Science Training Placement and Curriculum Committee at the Washington University School of Medicine for approval to complete medical school in three years. The program is described. (MLW)

A voluntary summer research program, implemented at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, is described. Publications and presentations by medical students and responses of students and faculty members to a questionnaire were used to evaluate it. (Author/MLW)

A methodical, goal-oriented system for identifying and correcting the weaknesses of institutional management without undermining that institution's strengths and general character is described. The program, developed by the United Negro College Fund, is called the Integrated Systems Approach to Improving Management. (Author/MLW)

Instead of engaging in the controversy over competency-based teacher education, this paper deals with a description of the implementation of the actual CBTE program, the problems of transition, and difficulties of operation. It is presented primarily as input for those involved in teacher education and contemplating a movement toward CBTE.…

This article describes an 18-month study of programs for adults with less than high school educations. Project outcomes include a listing of programs, abstracts of selected programs, case studies of selected programs, guidelines for developing or evaluating programs, and a publication discussing issues related to cooperative adult education…

Reviews applications of the Delphi methodology to educational issues and provides an evaluation of present trends in its development. (Editor/RK)