The 12-member WHO Expert Committee on Professional and Technical Education of Medical and Auxiliary Personnel met during a 4-day conference in Geneva, Switzerland, to review experience to date, including surveys made by consultants in 1965 and 1966, and to make recommendations on the training and utilization of medical assistants and similar…

Teacher training and professional responsibilities in special education are the topics of nine conference papers. Educational trends and needs are identified in three papers on the future of teacher preparation programs, new directions in curriculum in relation to black and other minority students in teacher training programs, and the black…

Topics discussed at this conference concerned with education for the rural poor were: (1) "The Community College and the Rural Poor," (2) "The Rural Low Income Student--What a Small College Can Do to Get Them Into School and Keep Them There," (3) "The New Iron Ore Industry Worker Needs New Schools and New Programs to Keep Marketable," (4) "The…

Following the keynote address on the importance of planning and the changing style of management in colleges and universities, various prepared papers developed the meeting theme of using technology in college and university planning. William Massey described the development and use of a computer model for strategic planning at Stanford. Edmund…

This document contains three conference papers concerning institutional research at the community college level. Ann Bromley discusses the practical implications of institutional research. The president, administrative staff, and faculty must be involved in identification of research issues, formulation of design, and application of findings.…

Purpose of the Advisory Committee was to: advise the Assistant Secretary/Commissioner of Education on the problems central to the education of the Spanish speaking children and adults, particularly those of bilingual bicultural families; recommend, where appropriate, shifts in emphasis of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW),…

The search for a satisfactory computer graphics input system led to this version of an analog sheet encoder which is transparent and requires no special probes. The goal of the research was to provide high resolution touch input capabilities for an experimental minicomputer based intelligent terminal system. The technique explored is compatible…

The need for administrator development is examined and general observations are offered about development programs in this conference speech. The use of growth contracts is considered. These are also called individualized development plans and offer a systematic approach to defining administrator roles and priorities, charting the direction of…

The report of the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development Workshop held in Vientiane, Laos, December 1974 is presented. The workshop focused on three main issues: national development strategies and high-level manpower needs; the responses of universities of high-level manpower requirements; and the employment of university…

The dearth of innovative instructional resources has been a key reason for inadequacy of learning opportunities in the New York Appalachian region, particularly in occupational education. Project 81 was formulated to organize a regional approach to the use of new instructional media materials for occupational education through increasing the…

The resistance of the Personal Orientation Inventory to deliberate attempts to fake in a positive direction was investigated for samples of Spanish- speaking Nicaraguan students and industrial workers. Results were consistent with findings from American samples, particularly the consistently lower existentiality scores. (Author/JKS)

Two Groups of educable mentally retarded primary and secondary pupils were compared on measures of self-esteem and intelligence to determine whether scores on a self-drawing test and those on a self-perception test were related. A significant correlation was found for the secondary pupils only. (Author/JKS)

Black graduate students rated 12- and 13-year old students' writing. On negative writing samples, raters manifested high racial bias in favor of Blacks against Orientals and Whites. There was little evidence of racial bias with neutral writing; and on positive writing, bias was sex-directed rather than racial. (Author/RD)

W. John Minter and Howard R. Bowen's annual report on "Financial and Educational Trends in Independent Higher Education, 1978" is examined. Problems in data reporting by college administrators that skew financial assessment reports are noted. A rating questionnaire for institutional quality is appended. (Author/LBH)

The International Baccalaureate, an internationally oriented upper secondary curriculum, has a terminal examination which is now recognized as a valid qualification for university entrance on a world-wide scale. Here is a report on the second world conference consisting of delegations from 32 countries with observers present from the EEC, Unesco…