Excerpts from the June 1972 Convention of NEA in Atlantic City, New Jersey citing the need to individualize the system and increase alternatives within it. (GB)

Presents an experimental design to investigate the role of the cognitive information processing component and various levels of information density or information processing output. Both the information treatment and analytic ability had significant effects on the information-processing output. (DF)

Two methods of instruction (question-answer and question-incomplete-answer) are utilized in teaching a unit on thermal energy. Effectiveness, as measured by a posttest, confirmed significant differences in the two modes of instruction. (DF)

A course concerning goals for science and society was developed in an independent day school with small classes and student freedom in selecting classes. A dozen topics were covered, based on general and specific objectives. (DF)

The basic message of this report is that the policy of using general tax revenue to pay for water resource development has served its purpose. What will happen if projects must be self-supporting and if planning and control are given to states and regions are unsolved problems. (DF)

Reaction to a February 19, 1972 recommendation of the Konferenz der Romanischen Seminare der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und West-Berlins in Deutschen Romanistenverband'' (Conference of Romance Seminars of the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin of the German Association of Romance Philologists) to discontinue the Latin prerequisite for…

The author summarizes points of agreement and unresolved issues of a workshop on confidentiality sponsored by the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Handicapped. (GW)

The primary message of the SIG/BSS panel discussion at the 1971 ASIS annual meeting was the need to probe more deeply into the utility of knowledge for decision-making and to shift priorities toward making data more usable to policy-makers than to collectors and disseminators. (17 references) (Author/SJ)

Brief reports on the Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics, Comprehensive School Mathematics Program, Computer-Assisted Instruction Projects at Stanford, Individually Prescribed Instruction Project, The Madison Project, Mathematics/Science Learning System, MINNEMAST, and School Mathematics Study Group. (MM)

Purpose of the investigation was to identify the factorial dimensions of 25 characteristics on a scale for rating research articles. (Authors)