As a way of increasing minority participation in educational research and development, suggests the implementation of undergraduate programs that would prepare and encourage minority students to go on to such careers. (GC)

Examines the proclaimed dichotomy between real and unreal, theory and practice, actual and idealized notions of community needs and university attitudes with regard to training, and describes how San Diego State University's Educational Technology program attempts simultaneously to educate graduate students and serve its community. (Author/MER)

Summarizes findings of a recently published report of the Canadian Geoscience Council, which includes the following topics regarding college geology: facilities; teaching; undergraduate enrollments; postgraduate enrollments; geologic research; and integration of Canadian geoscience with other countries. (CS)

Contains a listing of all library schools in America, both those accredited by the Association of American Library Schools and those not accredited. The first part is arranged by schools and lists all faculty members and subject areas . The second part is an alphabetical list of personnel with title and school noted. (Author/BK)

Describes a program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout's Vocational Rehabilitation Institute which treats and evaluates work possibilities for disabled persons. The Institute has graduate and undergraduate programs and conducts training workshops. (JOW)

Describes the eruption of inflammable natural gas from the ground surface in the Edith area near Camp Houston. Determining the source of the gas, the results established the Chester-Oswago interval as the most likely source. The surface venting has declined steadily; the likelihood of finding its cause is also described. (SK)

Under the Elementary Teaching Assistantships Program, graduate students worked with participating schools in coordinating, directing, and teaching physical education programs. This type of program can strengthen relations between colleges and area schools, and encourage elementary schools to beef up physical education programs. (CJ)

Contends that departments of speech communication must maintain a sense of disciplinary integrity and traditional commitment to scholarship in designing graduate programs that are adapted to the realities of altered enrollment and employment patterns. (JMF)

After two years of operation, this field-based, masters degree program in teacher education based on local concerns and local school districts was judged by its participants to have more advantages than the traditional or standard program because of the cooperative spirit developed between the university and the community. (MB)

The central conclusion of the study is that, in developing a competency-based graduate level program for preparing vocational education curriculists, priority should be given specifically to those roles, responsibilities, and competencies identified as most important by the groups surveyed. (Author/BP)

The Instructional Design and Development Program at Florida State University is described and offered as a role model for other institutions. (Author)

In business classes, 75 graduate students used traditional case studies and 75 used case studies with a grounded learning approach. The latter resulted in higher levels of involvement, motivation, and learning; higher grades; and more professional written products. (SK)

Makes the case that there is a weakness in the scholarly base of the museum profession and that the Ph.D. degree is mainly a research and publication degree and therefore not recommended for museum programs. Suggests that museum studies programs pursue the doctor of arts (D.A.) rather than the Ph.D. (MVL)

Examines statistics and research design requirements at various levels of school psychology education in the United States. Results indicated more required courses in statistics and research design at the doctoral level. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of statistics and research design competency at all levels of the profession.…

A sample of 71 psychopathology course syllabi from 58 different graduate schools of social work was analyzed to determine whether different viewpoints and the concomitant empirical evidence were presented regarding 4 significant mental health topics: concepts of mental disorder, reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses, biological…