Presented is another document in the Technical Report series produced at the Science Education Center of the University of Iowa. This publication emphasizes curriculum evaluation. Material is presented in three sections: an introductory section in which the components of curriculum are identified and described; a second section in which these…

This bulletin contains brief summaries from the full report, "Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Selected Nonprofit Institutions, Fiscal Year 1973," obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Data tables showing trends in federal obligations to universities and colleges…

The "Texas Monthly," a one and a half year old magazine begun in February 1973, provides upper income readers with both booster and critical content. In its first year, the magazine moved from 10,000 circulation to 60,000, from six to thirty-five pages of ads, and from a staff of six to twenty-one. Nearly half of its readers are in the $20,000 and…

A sampling of educators' views on community colleges is offered. Six critical forces will shape the future functions of community colleges: the continued demand for equal educational opportunities; increase in the number of 20- to 35-year-olds seeking work; continued rapid expansion in the demand for white-collar workers and technical personnel;…

This second report to the Congress of the United States on Alcohol and Health concentrates on highlighting certain advances in knowledge gained about uses and misuses of alcohol in the last few years. It does not attempt to address all aspects of knowledge, and deliberately bypasses those areas in which new information may be developing but has…

This document reports the proceedings of a conference concerning substantial justice on campus, held at the University of Georgia campus in November 1972. Topics of concern included: balancing student rights and institutional needs; challenge from the courts; sense of justice on campus and in society; institutional justification of the existence…

This document reports on the May 24, 1973 conference at the University of Washington concerning the external degree. Emphasis is placed on the future needs of higher education, the external degree, the student population for the external degree, England's Open University, and external degree models in Colorado, California, New Jersey, and…

This report covers the PLATO IV activities during calendar year 1973 at the Computerized Training System. The work reported herein is supported by a program sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to evaluate the PLATO IV system for use in training, oriented to the needs of the Armed Services. The report presents a synopsis of…

The academic-standards policy of the community college is often inconsistent with the open-door admissions policy. A large number of community colleges still used a fixed Grade Point Average (GPA) standard when determining academic standing. Would it not be sounder educational policy to use a developmental system of GPA requirements in determining…

This paper discusses a new structure for understanding the communication process--a structure that reflects the trend toward reorganizing knowledge along the lines suggested by an ecological perspective. The paradigms that exist in the field of communication are discussed, and the inability of most of them to cope with the full range of…

The proceedings of the Western Conference on External Degree Programs held in San Francisco, February 17-19, 1974, are presented. The keynote address discusses strategies for educational innovation, while two other speeches discuss the stresses of universalism and an interim conference report. Notes and questions from small group discussions, the…

Using the premise that one of society's most pressing educational needs is the preparing of personnel to implement and facilitate environmental education programs in schools, teacher preparation institutions, and other educational agencies, the conference focused on identifying "what to do" and "how to do it." Speakers discussed problems to be…

The employment of judgment as an evaluation tool at the early stage of curriculum development is advantageous. The reasons why this is so are: (1) writers exhibit more readiness to change elements of the program during the early stages of curriculum development; (2) there is great economic advantage in using such an evaluation tool; and (3)…

The Recruit Performance Test (RPT) was developed to meet a widely recognized need for an accurate measurement of achievement in learning the military/psychomotor skills in recruit training. It was hoped that the test would be of special value in assessing the achievement of Category IV personnel, who are thought to be penalized by the present…

The Anglo-American Conference held at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1966, was designed to improve the teaching of English and the cooperation between scholars and teachers in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Major issues in English education were identified in advance of the conference. Papers on these topics were discussed at an…