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Rudeen, Scott; And Others – 1973
This report attempts to identify the relevant environmental factors which have an impact upon the quality of life of the child. The following are discussed: (1) introduction--population growth, population growth and natural resource reserves, GNP and the quality of life, regulation of population size, population quality; (2) prenatal…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Care, Child Development, Emotional Development
Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1972
This presentation is comprised of 17 session papers and the transcripts of two group discussions all dealing with various aspects of campus physical plant maintenance. Among the subjects covered are: the post-traditional campus, central environmental control, contract management service, operational and maintenance planning, air handling systems,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Annual Reports, Building Operation, Campus Planning
Burne, Kevin – 1973
Phases two and three of an evaluation of an innovative approach to English Composition instruction at Long Beach City College are reported. In the innovative approach, each class was divided into two groups of 15 students each, which met twice each week to discuss topics for writing, to read and revise first drafts of papers, and to discuss basic…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Helsel, A. Ray; Willower, Donald J. – 1973
An attempt is made to define and measure pupil control "behavior." In order to measure pupil control behavior, an instrument called the Pupil Control Behavior (PCB) Form was developed and tested. The 31 custodial and 34 humanistic items were randomized, and the initial version of the PCB Form was administered in 20 schools in Illinois…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Clague, Ewan; And Others – 1973
The report reviews the administration of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 with respect to coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black Lung) and analyzes the results. The objective of establishing and maintaining cleaner air in the mines has been substantially achieved by the Bureau of Mines inspection system. The second, which provided…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
Houghton, Harold, Ed.; Tregear, Peter, Ed. – 1969
This book is a synthesis of the work and discussions of a Unesco conference that examined the problems concerning the structure and functioning of community schools in developing countries. Participants worked in four groups studying respectively the position of the teacher in relation to the community, the means he should employ to obtain the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Arithmetic, Community Schools, Conference Reports
Lally, J. Ronald – 1973
This progress report on the Family Development Research Program for 108 low-income families, conducted at Syracuse University Children's Center, provides information on a longitudinal comparison instituted when the program children reached 36 months of age. The families of the children were matched to control families on a number of variables.…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Control Groups, Early Experience, Experimental Groups
Smart, K. F., Ed. – 1972
The second of two meetings dealing with deprivation and disadvantage in education concentrated attention on the problems in developing countries. In many countries the problems are so complex that rational analysis is not undertaken; decisions are made on the basis of political expediency or on economically based criteria. In most cases, whole…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Conference Reports, Developing Nations, Disease Control
Lokan, Janice J. – 1973
A Vocational Interest Inventory was developed for vocational high school students with low reading level, short test-attention span, low IQ, and impoverished educational and family background. The VII, of which there are separate versions for boys and girls, consists of items representing job tasks, for each of which the respondent indicates his…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Disadvantaged Youth, Low Ability Students, Occupational Clusters
Nee, John G. – 1973
A project to help vocational-technical teachers in the development and experimental analysis of self-instructional programs is presented. The emphasis in developing the program was on maximizing effectiveness and efficiency of program-learner interaction as measured by criterion items. These items emphasized cognitive content dealing with the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Course Content, Criterion Referenced Tests
Weingarten, Kenneth; And Others – 1972
This report describes the development and pilot testing of a low-cost, generalizable, quality-assured, peer-instructional model suitable to the training needs of men of varying measured aptitude. The report presents a brief overview of the project, followed by a detailed description of the APSTRAT model and the considerations that led to its…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Enlisted Personnel, Individualized Instruction, Job Skills
Westinghouse Learning Corp., Annapolis, MD. – 1969
The purpose of this technical report is to describe the media and presentation variables selected for inclusion in the instructional system for the United States Naval Academy leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the course development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484). Considerations for the selection of these…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Design
Florida Community Junior Coll. Inter-institutional Research Council, Gainesville. – 1972
A study was conducted of the following aspects of post-secondary occupational education in Florida: the State level administrative structure, program planning and development, program implementation, program evaluation, and the characteristics of students in these programs. Questionnaires were completed by faculty and administrators, and the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Career Planning, Community Colleges
McCall, Robert B. – 1972
Function of attention in infants is explored. Assuming (1) that infants respond differently to novel situations than to familiar ones; (2) that the infant's pattern of response is a partial reflection of the process of acquiring a perceptual memory of the stimulus, and (3) that sex differences may occur in the rate of habituation, 120 infants…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Age Differences, Attention, Bibliographies
Borich, Gary D. – 1972
Statistical procedures are presented for determining ordinal and disordinal aptitude-treatment interactions with linear and curvilinear data. The paper presents a method for testing the homogeneity of group regressions for a single aptitude and provides models for expanding this test to linear and curvilinear regression planes. Procedures are…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Interaction
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