Presents a viewpoint regarding guidelines that should be established in publishing reports of teaching innovation in laboratory courses. (CS)

Summaries are presented of evaluation research on a National Dairy Council guide for integrating nutrition education into high school health education courses. The program was found to be effective in improving both general health test performance and nutrition test performance. (JMF)

Describes trends in the state of the nation's wildlife, minerals, air, water, forests, living space, and soil resources. Positive gains in 1980 are offset by threats to the progress made during the past decade. (WB)

The influence of frequency of occurrence of a visual stimulus on encoding processes is investigated, to discover what mechanisms allow cognitive processes to modify perceptual processes. Six experiments are described and the results are discussed. (MH)

This is an announcement of the availability of the National Research Council's report on "The State of School Science." The report is one of eight that the National Science Foundation requested from eight national organizations, each with a different perspective on science education. (Author/SA)

The compound nature of Gagne's original definition of learning hierarchies leads to two methods of validation, the positive and negative methods. Sections of a hierarchy that had been validated by the negative method were subjected to test by the more cumbersome positive method, and again were found to be valid. (Author/RD)

Attitudes of undergraduate elementary education majors were examined to determine the relationship between dogmatism and teacher preference for certain teaching styles. Findings indicated the more dogmatic groups of future teachers had greater attitudinal preferences for the orderly, dependent, exhibitionistic, and dominant teaching styles. (DS)

Pictorial conditional reasoning test items which were varied according to principle of inference and type of content were administered to three groups of educably mentally retarded children. Results revealed that retardates' reasoning strategies were congruent with those reported for younger normals in previous studies. (Author/JKS)

A critique of the research methods used in "Primary Education in England," a report of Her Majesty's Inspectorate that was based on teacher questionnaires and classroom observations of 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds in 542 schools. (SJL)

This paper is concerned with testing hypotheses about main effects, simple effects, and interaction effects by means of analysis of variance. It presents alternative strategies for analyzing data sets for which a factorial model with two completely crossed, fixed factors is appropriate. (CTM)

A theory and a procedure are presented for estimating a domain parameter and item parameters for test items in a homogeneous domain, such that the combined domain and item parameters account for observed proportions right for each item in a test. (CTM)

The application of multiple linear regression to the identification of appropriate criterion variables and the prediction of enrollment in college courses during a period of major rapid decline (1972-1978) are discussed. An example is presented. (Author/JKS)

A statistical test for analysis of repeated measures is presented. It is shown that an appropriate chi-square statistic can be computed for related measures by taking account of the covariance among trials in computing a variance for the chi square statistic. (Author/JKS)

Data collected from more than 5,400 students in nontraditional programs offered by Illinois Universities provides information for educators who are planning or administering similar adult education programs. (Author/JH)

A survey of 554 policewomen from all parts of the United States reveals that women in law enforcement would like to see substantial changes in training methods as well as in departmental policies and attitudes. (JH)