Changes in undergraduate degree production from 1972-76 at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego were studied. The college has moved steadily toward becoming a multipurpose liberal arts college and it serves a sizeable number of students who begin their post-high school careers in community, agricultural, and technical units of SUNY.…

Interactive classroom television (ICTS) systems were installed in two special education classrooms to evaluate their impact on the learning experiences of severely visually impaired students. During a 3-year experimental period, data were collected from approximately 14 elementary students measuring achievement, visual-motor integration, visual…

The attitudes of 90 enlisted personnel toward computer assisted instruction (CAI) were measured online before and after they received instruction presented by CAI. The instructional material was divided into four lesson segments, each followed by a review segment. Students who failed to reach the criterion score for any review segment repeated the…

Ohio White House Conference preconference programs were held from March 10-May 25, 1978, at 18 locations across the state and attracted almost 1500 citizens and librarians interested in speaking out on libraries and information services. Detailed information about the preconferences is provided by this report in three sections: (1) narrative…

The keynote address, given by Michael Allen, characterized the association as a group of devoted humanitarians who are committed to finding realistic educational and training alternatives. He discussed the potential role of computer-based education specialists in meeting general and specific instructional needs. Included in the proceedings are 59…

Problems encountered by federal agencies in the United States in providing information and referral (I&R) for human services are described. These problems, which have resulted from fragmentation and duplication of effort, include: limited accessibility; no publicity; restricted services; lack of proper needs assessment and follow-up services;…

Reported are the results of a National Science Foundation-sponsored survey conducted by the Higher Education Panel of the American Council on Education. For this survey, the Council asked the 535 2- and 4-year colleges belonging to the Panel how many full-time faculty they hired in 1976-77 in selected fields, the proportion of those hired who had…

Reports the results of a feasibility study concerned with the development of a computing laboratory which unified the concepts of analog and digital computing in information and computer science. Contents of the report include a project overview and definition of syndetic computation, the state of the art, some typical student projects, an…

A persistent problem in aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) research has been the need for a better conceptualization of instructional treatments. The concerns are important in the analysis of instructional treatments: the importance of considering the psychological processes called upon by the instructional treatment, and the ecological validity…

In the first paper presented here eight problems are addressed: (1) racial inventory of Catholic school students; (2) inventory of integration policies and programs; (3) minority faculty in Catholic schools; (4) desegregation strategy; (5) Catholic schools and public school desegregation; (6) Catholic schools and Hispanic Americans; (7) successful…

Recent research in reading comprehension suggests that there are substantial differences between individuals in their patterns of resource allocation to text-based (bottom-up) and knowledge-based (top-down) reading processes. Less able readers tend to overrely on processes in one direction, producing deleterious effects on comprehension. Factors…

The practice and interpretation of intelligence testing of educable retarded and learning disabled children is examined in this report. The current and future state of intelligence testing is discussed in terms of its predictive, diagnostic, and remedial functions. The first section places a consideration of individual testing formats within a…

Investigated was the relationship between proportional thinking and students' ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concepts related to simple machines, structure of matter, and equivalent fractions. The study involved a random sample of 136 ninth-grade physical science students. Each student's proportional reasoning skills were…

Two experiments were conducted to determine: (1) whether fear of success, as measured by three different instruments, interacts with subjects' expectancies of success to affect performance on exams in college courses; (2) whether fear of success can be clearly distinguished from fear of failure; and (3) whether males and females differ on fear of…

An external evaluation was conducted of the Picturepages television work-along program in Kentucky. The program consisted of 100 televised lessons and booklets, and was given to 237 preschool children. The lessons presented "games" which were designed to develop cognitive concepts and skills. Both process and outcome evaluations were…