This is the sixth annual evaluation report of the South Carolina Advisory Council on Vocational and Technical Education. Information is provided about program growth in terms of enrollment figures, changes in enrollment from 1973-74 to 1974-75, and number and types of programs. The State goals for vocational and technical education are presented,…

The function of the Interagency Panel for Research and Development on Adolescence is to address the need in the Federal government to share meaningful research findings, to discuss plans, share problems, and to coordinate activities. This is the Panel's Third Annual Report and it includes the following discussions: (1) a summary of the year's…

The 1974 annual reports of State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education (SACVE) begins with an 11-page overview of several issues concerning the State of vocational education as perceived by the SACVE: (1) funding, (2) disadvantaged and handicapped, (3) State plan, (4) data, (5) resource utilization, (6) relating training to manpower…

This report, given at a special meeting held in Tehran, presents data and facts concerning yearly publications (books, magazines, and textbooks), translations, and illustrations of Japanese children's literature. The report then discusses at length recent trends in children's literature and library activities for children in the past, present, and…

This report, given at a special meeting held in Tehran, discusses the creation and publication of children's books in India, most of which came into being only after India achieved independence. Now both private publishers and government agencies supplement one another in publishing various types of books--fiction, science, biography, adventure,…

Compiled in this document are the March, April, May, August, and November 1972 editions of "Now Available," the newsletter of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Educational Media and Technology. The newsletter provides summaries of recently released documents dealing with communications, instructional…

At the March 7, 1973, Association of Scientific Dissemination of Information Centers meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel discussion on cost elements and charge bases in information centers was held. The panel was composed of representatives of seven information centers which process machine-readable bibliographic data bases and provide…

At the University of Illinois at Urbana, a computer based curriculum called Automated Computer Science Education System (ACSES) has been developed to supplement instruction in introductory computer science courses or to assist individuals interested in acquiring a foundation in computer science through independent study. The system, which uses…

The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) is a permanent independent agency within the executive branch, established by Congress and signed into law on July 20, 1970. As specified by the enabling legislation, the Commission has been concerned in its initial year with every type of library and with all types of…

The purpose of this international conference was to analyze and discuss the fundamental aspects of education and training in information work both for specialists and users. This proceedings volume is divided into two parts. Session I concerned the training of information specialists and contains 51 invited and submitted papers. The training of…

As one phase in the design of an overall plan for environmental education in Tennessee, a statewide conference was sponsored to give direction to environmental education in that state. The purpose of the conference was to bring together a broad spectrum of public and private agencies, councils, and organizations to exchange ideas and information…

Unobtrusive measures in psychological experiments are discussed. Six levels of unobtrusiveness are (1) Complete Unobtrusiveness, (2) Hidden Mechanical Intervention, (3) Hidden Observer, (4) Impinging Mechanical Intervention Not Recognized as Experimental, (5) Impinging Observer, and (6) Unobtrusive Measures within an Experimental Setting. Each of…

Prepared as part of a larger research study evaluating the effectiveness of career education programs, this annotated bibliography contains 173 periodical articles, speeches, dissertations, books, and reports concerning aspects of career education. Arranged alphabetically by author, entries contain title, publication information, pagination, and…

This report contains summaries of the final evaluation reports for the projects, programs and centers of the 1972-73 institutional grant programs in the Division of Teacher Education at Indiana University. The summaries include the name of the project, the director's name, a listing of faculty and professional staff, and the number of male and…

The contents of this Right to Read report for the fiscal year 1974 include: "Preface"; "Right to Read--Its Purposes and Goals," which briefly discusses the organization, the major goals, agencies, and programs, and interrelated services or branches of the Right to Read effort; "State Education Agencies," which looks…