Presented at the Pan Pacific Conference on the Education of Exceptional Children (Honolulu, Hawaii, February 9-12, 1971), the paper deals with the education of handicapped children and youth in New Zealand. Some of the social, geographical, and economical factors which have shaped New Zealand's educational system are mentioned. The development of…

The paper, presented at the Pan Pacific Conference on the Education of Exceptional Children (Honolulu, Hawaii, February 9-12, 1971), concerns special education in Hong Kong. A brief summary of the general educational background in Hong Kong and its present stage of development is given. The aim of special education in Hong Kong, existing…

This annotated list of Educational Testing Service research reports includes 1) investigations in which creativity is the major subject of the study, 2) ones in which creativity is a variable, and 3) studies concerned with the development of methods or instruments for use in creativity research. Included are studies, or phases of studies,…

Abstracts of papers presented to the 44th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching are arranged according to the topic of the session at which they were presented. Separate sessions were devoted to elementary, secondary, junior high school, and college and university science teaching, with papers on evaluation,…

Students' drawings of the family were used as a projective diagnostic tool for analyzing social-psychological family roles of intellectually normal and superior students who have reading-learning problems. Drawings of two groups of students were presented. One was called the "Honor Five," made up of college honor students, and the other was called…

Five papers presenting the case for reform of biology teaching, five outlining new approaches to biology curricula (including the role of mathematics), and summaries of the discussions that followed each group of papers when presented at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, introduce the report of the conference proceedings.…

This document is a report on an International Working Session on New Teaching Methods for School Mathematics held at Athens, Greece, which was called to discuss developments since the 1959 Royaumont Seminar on "New Thinking in School Mathematics." Chapter I deals with the curriculum and, in addition to talks on specific topics, includes complete…

Concerned with developing a master plan for interlinking recreational trails throughout Cook County, Illinois, this document consists primarily of proceedings of a conference on trails in an urban setting. Presentations are Urban Trails: A Tremendous Recreation Opportunity; Legal Considerations; Development; Utilities; Planning; Getting Started;…

This report of the findings of the working group on "recruitment" of the International Congress on the Education of Secondary School Physics Teachers held in Hungary in September, 1970, includes reasons for the shortage of physics teachers (low salaries, excessive class load, lack of prestige, and inadequate programs of teacher preparation),…

Remarks presented at the Southeastern Regional Conference on the Social Sciences and Environmental Education, held at Athens, Georgia, are compiled in this document. Two major conference addresses are reported in their entirety: "International Programs in Environmental Education" by Dr. Jan Cerovsky, Education Executive Officer,…

The proceedings of the conference/short course on the role of the family as supportive personnel in speech and hearing remediation focus upon the family and its relationship and interaction with the speech, language, or hearing handicapped individual. The purpose of the course was to emphasize the importance of utilizing the family as a manpower…

Eight papers on various aspects of criterion-referenced measurement presented at the 1972 AERA Conference are reviewed. A list of the papers reviewed, their authors, and, when applicable, the ED numbers is provided. In addition, 10 references considered as valuable are provided. (DB)

The stepped-up reliability coefficient does not have the same standard error as an ordinary correlation coefficient. Fisher's Z -transformation should not be applied to it. Appropriate procedures are suggested. (Author)

A study was conducted by the Navy to develop and evaluate human performance reliability estimates for electronic maintenance. Data were collected using the Personnel Identification Information Forms, the Technical Proficiency Checkout Form, and the Job Performance Questionnaire. On the basis of the total number of uncommonly effective and the…

Traditional activity research has relied upon social aggregate variables like occupation, income, education, age, and marital status almost entirely as a basis to predict demand for given activities. This is especially true for many studies completed on specific recreational sites where only participants are considered. However, once…