Report of conference sponsored by the Office of Child Development and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., January 11-12, 1971. (CB)

Presents the recommendations and guidelines for the improvement of the physics instruction adopted by a group of physics educators at a conference in Eger, Hungary. (DS)

Describes a meeting of Latin teachers and public school administrators on Arpil 23-24, 1970, at the University of Pittsburgh, Pa. (DS)

Presents check-off forms used in reporting the progress of children in pre-academic classes designed for students with language or learning disabilities. Such forms provide information similar to that found in a narrative description, but are less time-consuming and expensive to produce. (RW)

Annual report of the National Education Association (NEA), issued by the NEA Board of Directors. Adapted from a longer report distributed to delegates at the NEA Philadelphia convention in July 1969.

Ways values influenced collection, presentation, and interpretation of data in the report "Public and Private Schools" (Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore, 1981) are discussed. This article's author (Conner) states that the report's authors, in their zeal to separate facts from values, have obscured some of the facts relevant to educational policy…

Presents the 1982 annual report of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC). Dillon cites efforts to improve MENC administrative organization, the communication of relevant information to its members, and its public image. National, state, and regional conference activities are described. (AM)

Presents an evaluative analysis of five indexing/abstracting services covering sports and physical education. Data on the scope, arrangement, indexing language, journal coverage, subject access, special features, and use aids in each of the services are presented in four tables. (JL)

Examines the relevance of curriculum research to the needs of British educational policymakers. Five curriculum research reports were evaluated regarding their authoritativeness, novelty, research background, persuasiveness, and physical format. The author concludes that packaging of research results to increase their desirability makes them…

Describes two NEH sponsored workshops for the development of foreign language and literature programs which took place at the San Francisco and Houston MLA meetings in 1979 and 1980. Resulting efforts to strengthen foreign language programs as essential components of humanistic education are illustrated by reports from 1979 workshop participants.…

Describes and presents in a table the contents, coverage, updating frequency, system availability, and thesauri available for 24 databases which provide business, medical, legal, criminal justice, and statistical information, as well as information from/on the U.S. Congress, the Federal Register, U.S. Government procurement, technical reports, and…

The effects of interpersonal cooperation, competition, and individualistic efforts were compared on math and reading drill-review, story problems, sequencing, triangle identification, and visual sorting according to attributes tasks, using first-grade students. The cooperative group achieved higher scores and found the tasks easier than the…

Four levels of notetaking (summary, paraphrase, verbatim, and letter search) were used to control depth of processing of a prose passage with high school students, who then either reviewed their notes or read an interpolated text. Results favored groups with deeper levels of processing on two post-tests. (Author/RD)

Adults read stories; then made plausibility judgments about statements with respect to the stories. The inherent plausibility of the queried statements, the amount of attention subjects focused on information necessary for making a judgment, and the interval between presentation of the relevant information and the test probe were varied.…

Four experiments demonstrated that mental images are functionally equivalent to physical errors of movement in producing changes in visual-motor coordination, at both central and peripheral levels of the visual-motor system. Subjects observed or imagined pointing errors after pointing movements were completed. Imagery vividness ratings were also…