This report describes a federally-funded national conference on career education held in Columbus, Ohio, which focused on the professional development of educational leadership personnel. Centering on the development of individual university-based teams through the involvement of selected leaders in a series of national conferences, the April 1972…

Realizing the demanding role which vocational education must play in helping to prepare individuals to meet the changing demands and challenges of a technological society, the Kansas Advisory Council conducted an investigation to assess the status of existing State programs so that necessary improvements could be made. Objectives by which the…

This report traces the development of a model of Navy career motivation under the all-volunteer condition. This is an outgrowth of three interview studies in which information about factors influential in enlistment and reenlistment decision was elicited. Interviewee samples included men who were at various stages of considering enlistment in the…

The primary purposes of this bibliography are to present an overview of published works which relate to the use of new technologies in library operations, to call attention to a number of valuable reference works published on the subject, and to assist librarians and library systems scientists who are engaged in the planning and/or implementation…

A study was conducted to determine the development of vocational aspirations in the years three to six. Ss totaled 282 black and white three- four-, and five-year-olds, 143 males and 139 females. Vocational aspirations questions were individually administered as part of an assessment inventory. Responses were arranged into six categories--all…

Two Masters' theses, by Andrea Weiss and Melinda Welles, pursuing related questions were synthesized into a final report, "Field Independence-Dependence, Reflection-Impulsivity, and Problem-Solving Styles of Preschool Children," of which this interim report is a summary. The major purposes of both investigations were to determine: (1)…

This is the annual report of the activities of Israel Science Teaching Centre for 1971-1972. The contents of the report include reports of meetings and activities undertaken in various projects in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, agriculture, and the junior school program. Some major activities of different projects include inservice…

A summary of the findings and recommendations of the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality is presented in this report. Specific environmental problems were studied in depth and are reported under the following topics: (1) population and land use; (2) recreation and natural beauty; (3) resource recovery, recycling, and reuse; (4)…

This book reports the proceedings of a colloquium of European mathematics educators organized by UNESCO in 1968. Papers and discussion center on four main considerations: (1) Mathematics in contemporary society, including recent advances in mathematics, penetration of mathematics into other domains, the influence of computers, and the objectives…

A study of the environmental impact of the construction of a second community college on a site adjacent to the City of Novato in Marin County, California, is presented. The five sections of the report are as follows: I. Project Description and Purpose: A. The Proposal; B. Purpose of the Project; C. Need for the Project; D. History of the Project;…

The institute, "Innovations in School Librarianship," was conducted by The Florida State University in cooperation with the Florida Department of Education. Participants in the workshop were persons employed as school district level media personnel in Florida public school systems. The purpose was to increase their competence in…

The Classroom Attitude Observation Schedule was developed and field tested for study of independent child behavior in the open classroom. Eight Head Start classrooms were used for field testing, six of which used the Tucson Early Education Model curriculum and two of which, for comparison, used local curricula. Procedures involved observing and…

The purpose of this research was to develop an evaluation technique to assess how effectively children develop as independent learners within classrooms implementing the Tucson Early Education Model. A situational task was chosen in order to gather information about the ongoing open classroom. The Classroom Attitude Observation Schedule was…

The study assessed contributions of different novelty pairings and reward types to exploration behavior across three successive discrimination learning problems in a 3 x 2 x 3 mixed design. After learning a simple two choice discrimination problem, Headstart subjects responded to six double reward trials and six extinction trials. A…

This conference paper focuses attention on the changing role of social studies in our changing society. Working groups comprised of teachers, administrators, curriculum supervisors, and professors met to exchange ideas on new programs, attitudes and views of problems, and possible solutions to problems in the field of social studies. The first…