A study was conducted to demonstrate that originality can be facilitated in elementary school children. Research has shown that a training procedure designed to elicit uncommon responses will facilitate original responses on subsequent tasks. Ss were 96 fifth- and sixth-graders. Half were randomly assigned to a group given originality training…

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Mental Health Planning Conference for the Spanish Speaking was held on January 11-12, 1972, in Bethesda, Maryland. Thirty Spanish speaking professionals and nonprofessionals from 12 states and the District of Columbia met with NIMH and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The…

Children of ages 5 and 8 years were given one of three learning tasks: (a) a component selection problem, in which two stimulus components were redundant and (b) two incidental learning tasks, in which one component of the stimuli was task-relevant and the other was incidental. A posttest, measuring the children's recall for information about each…

Research was conducted to determine whether statistical sampling techniques' could be applied effectively in followup studies of high school graduates and, if so, what sampling model is most appropriate. Records at four high schools in the Santa Barbara area were examined to develop statistical, demographic profiles of two populations, the 1970…

As children grow older they show an increasing preference for classifying objects on the basis of shape rather than color. To clarify the nature of this "dimension preference," children of ages 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 years were given a method of triads test of dimension preferences, followed (after a week's delay) by a component selection task. The most…

This report on the proceedings of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation's National Leadership Development Conference on Smoking and Health Education contains speeches and reports from the conference. They include "Current Information on Smoking and Health"; "The Role of the Elementary School Principal"; "The Role…

A historical overview is given in the fourth annual report of the Indiana Career Resource Center. The Center has been involved in a variety of activities throughout the State, covering school activities, consultation programs; loaning of instructional materials, school workshops; interaction within the community, and publications and productions.…

In selecting titles for this bibliography, the compliers have included only those which cover "lifelong integrated education," defined by international organizations (UNESCO) and Council of Europe) as a "global concept integrating different aspects and educational processes in a coherent continuum." Such themes as adult basic education, leisure,…

This document presents the proceedings of a conference at the University of Alabama designed to examine the legal implications of academic affairs. Papers cover women's rights in academe, and some extra-legal concerns, the outlook for faculty bargaining, an industrial relations approach to faculty collective bargaining, and the courts and academic…

This report is a consolidation of the knowledge and skills imparted during the 1973-74 Information Management Training Institute sponsored by Tennessee State University, Meharry Medical College, and the Institute for Services to Education, Inc. Section one of the report includes the proceedings from the sessions conducted on data collection,…

The report is divided to cover: introductory material, management of Virginia's state-supported institutions of higher education, the coordination and governance of higher education in Virginia, the relationship between Virginia's private institutions and the state, legal education and manpower requirements in Virginia, and proposed legislation.…

The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges launched the Microform Project in 1969 under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. The major product of Phase I (1969-1970) was a bibliography of resource materials used in 10 courses of study at community colleges (see ED 040 708). During Phase II (1970-1971), a series of pilot…

The 20th Annual Legislative Work Conference of the Southern Regional Education Board provided participants with an opportunity to hear and discuss specific proposals for change in higher education. The participants considered the relationship between manpower needs and postsecondary educational opportunity and the kinds of students who attend…

This report contains 4 addresses given at a conference on higher education and the law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and includes 2 supporting documents. The first address: "An Overview of the Interaction," by Richard A. Thigpen, discusses: (1) how constitutional standards are made applicable to public and private institutions of higher education; (2)…

This annotated bibliography is a revised, up-dated version of one which was published in 1966. Most of the material has been published within the past 10 years, with the exception of earlier material that contains information that is still valid today. Included are books, pamphlets, reports, theses, articles, and microfilm, all of which are in the…