The application of the "report card" principle to educational accountability is described in this report, which summarizes 20 report cards now issued in the 15 states of the Southern Regional Education Board area. Specific state or local school data are not included. The following areas are summarized: mandates for reporting; the kind of…

Technical writing scholars have discussed, but not resolved, the ethical problems of ghost authorship (Should the technical editor have a place on the title page?) and multiple authorship (Can nine people really author an eight-page essay?). These ethical questions, however, are trivial when compared with the significantly more grave and…

Presented is an annotated bibliography, arranged alphabetically by author (first author, if more than one), of research-based documents on the teaching and learning of science. Documents included represent research findings and theoretical views of educational researchers and practitioners; many report and analyze research outcomes and discuss…

Continuing education activities of the University of British Columbia for the 1982-1983 academic year are reported. Information is provided on: extra-sessional credit programs, guided independent study, the Centre for Continuing Education, the Division of Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, professional programs of the Faculty of Commerce…

Centrally concerned with design, educational technology involves making the best possible decisions for action given a particular set of circumstances, with a body of knowledge or instructional theory for guidance. More work is needed to aid educational technologists in the three tasks of building instructional theory, developing techniques for…

Comments of Daniel E. Koble, Jr., explaining the methodology and findings of the Needs Study to the AVA Administration Division, are excerpted. (AG)

The Business and Office Education Division at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention held round tables on 30 topics, emphasizing the need for humanism in teaching juxtaposed with depersonalizing developments in the field. In a general session, teacher education was examined, and internal divisiveness was blamed for funding problems.…

An address to the Home Economics Division of the AVA 1975 convention warned of the dangers of sex stereotyping; the panel following the address raised other problem areas of concern to members. (AG)

This article presented a report of an Art Education Association miniconference on culture and art education held in Taos, New Mexico. (Author/RK)

Reviews highlights of discussion that followed presentation of papers at the Institute on Primary Care sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Chicago, Oct. 6-8, 1974. Major topics are protection of traditional and emerging academic, legal and financial constraints, and administrative and educational considerations. (JT)

The inadequacies of the report by the Commission of Inquiry into High School Journalism are reported here, and some sources of help for those concerned with secondary school journalism are cited. (Editor)

Two U. N. reports on aging and retirement are reviewed. There is a movement in developing nations toward early retirement with subsequent social welfare problems, and training for "second careers" has not yet caught on. The General Assembly has asked for a special group to suggest guidelines for national policies. (Author/AJ)

The paper explains the role of the Schools Council for the Curriculum and Examinations and how it functions in relation to the education system, discusses areas of reform, and presents a brief review of the Schools Councils proposals for a new examination structure. (MW)

Designed to help institutional researchers transform data into useful information, this paper discusses principles for presenting research results to administrators in the top levels of management. The first section describes ten fundamental principles of data presentation: knowing what information is needed; knowing when the information is…

This 1989 triennial report of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) concerns the colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico which serve significant numbers of Hispanic postsecondary students. For the purposes of this report, Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI) are those having a minimum of 25% Hispanic…