A critical look at the committee which directed the Surgeon General's report on the effects of television violence on youth and a brief review of some of the results of that study. (AK)

The 1972 midwinter meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) in Chicago is reported upon. (SJ)

Additional insight into the scope and complexity of ALA's Annual Conference in Dallas, June 21-26, 1971 is provided. (Author)

Six brief reviews of the report of the Commission on Instructional Technology by authors selected from a sector of the education community with a particular interest in the work of the Commission and its future impact on the schools." (Author/AA)

The immediate past president of the American Society of Training and Development reports on the ACTION program for 1970 in the areas of: members; chapters; the training profession; society in general; and ASTD as an organization. (EB)

The secretary of the NAEB gives a brief assessment of the success of the 1970 convention. (AA)

The notion of scale freeness does not seem to have been well understood in the factor analytic literature. Misconceptions concerning scale-freeness are clarified, and a theorem that ensures scale freeness in the orthogonal factor model is given in this paper. (Author/JKS)

Complete link hierarchical clustering is shown to be subject to a tendency to "migrate" away from what could be considered more adequate decompositions of the object set being considered. Several procedures are suggested for identifying the presence of migration and for helping evaluate its severity. (Author/CTM)

A short report on the 1976 Vidcom conference and Video 76 equipment exhibitions held in Cannes, France, September 23-28.

Reports activities of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) from the end of the 2001 Annual Session and Exposition (March 9, 2001) through the 2002 Annual Session and Exposition (March 7, 2002). Consists of: president's annual report, president-elect's address, executive director's report, proceedings of the 2002 House of Delegates,…

Discusses the common sections of a research report and describes some frequently made mistakes. The emphasis is on reports prepared for scholarly, peer-reviewed publication, but the points are applicable to other forms of research reports. (SLD)

Discusses the importance of viewing the condition of the physical structures as a long-term investment that enables public colleges and universities to influence funding issues and regulations proactively. GASB 34 and 35's impact on how facilities evaluate their infrastructure and the long-term financial and management issues are highlighted. (GR)

Purpose: In November of 2002 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publicly reported on a national basis the quality of nursing homes on the Nursing Home Compare (NHC) Web site. This study examines administrators' opinions of this initiative and whether it has fostered quality improvement. Design and Methods: Data used in this…

The paper presents a part of authors' research results, they obtained within a wider research focused on possibilities to influence students' attitudes and approaches to individual subjects, mainly the less favourite ones. Following the empirically derived hierarchy of subjects identifying the degree of individual subjects popularity among…