There are two emphases of the UNESCO program to promote the advancement of women within the reporting period 1972-1973. They are (1) to involve member states closely in UNESCO activities and (2) to focus on the equality of educational opportunity. Activities include: (1) a report on a five country research program concerning the relationship…

To report on a large number of wide-ranging vocational and career education programs, the Florida State advisory council utilized the three broad goals developed for such evaluations by the U. S. Office of Education, the National Advisory Council, and an ad hoc committee representing State advisory councils, responding to specific items of inquiry…

The Working Party on Aims and Objectives reports on its reappraisal of elementary and secondary education in New Zealand. Attention is focused on four major concepts: 1) the school as a professional unit, 2) lifelong education as a continuing process beyond the formal school system, 3) continuity throughout the educational system, and 4) school…

This report concerns the capital building programs and their costs. Comments and recommendations are made concerning enrollment projections and their bearing on the need for additional school accommodation, utilization of existing accommodation, procedures for approval of capital building projects, and financing capital building programs.…

To learn how a discipline in higher education perceives its instructional role in undergraduate study, six case studies of the process of undergraduate education in political science were prepared and analyzed. An advisory panel was formed to develop the study procedure, to select the institutions studied, and to choose the authors. The case…

Southeast Alternatives describes six elementary and secondary schools -- the result of a 1971 proposal for Federal funding for experimental schools to bridge the gap between experimentation and actual school practice and for evaluation of the effort. Discussion of the mechanics of implementation, including organization, governance and finance, and…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Preschool Embedded Figures Test (PEFT), based partly on the Children's Embedded Figures Test, is a measure of field independence, or analytic functioning. It is intended to investigate the development of psychological differentiation in children as young as age three. The PEFT contains 27 black and white drawings (3 practice drawings and 24…

This is the second of two measures designed for this study to test the child's vigor. The measure consists of instructing the child to turn a large wooden crank, mounted on a stand, as fast as he can until the E says to stop. Two trials of 15 second each, preceded by a practice trial, were presented. The score was the number of turns completed in…

This volume consists of 29 appendixes. Included are: lists of local business contacts, largest employers and the local advisory committee; write-ups of program evaluations; enrollment statistics and follow up of graduates with regard to employment; dropout statistics and description; special counselor duties; and a statement regarding…

This single volume constitutes the third and fourth yearbooks of the North Central Reading Association and consists of most of the papers presented at the 1963 and 1964 annual meetings of the NCRA. The papers are grouped into four sections: Discrimination, Information Theory, Skill Therapy and Skill Training, and The Visual Process. Among the…

Research sought to develop a quantitative model for the prediction of learning effects of a bilingual children's educational television program. The stimulus program series consisted of 30 sessions of Carrascolendas, a Spanish-English series which was based on specified behavioral objectives and aimed at students through grade 2. Learning effects…

One hundred and sixty abstracts of articles appearing in periodicals and newspapers make up this quarterly publication on education in India. Many topics are covered, some of which are policy and planning, academic achievement, administration and organization, adult education, curriculum and educational psychology. The abstracts are indexed by the…

The aims of this meeting of the group of experts set up to investigate the feasibility of a unit/credit system for modern language learning by adults were: (1) to define, on the basis of the results of three preliminary interrelated studies, the second phase of the research, namely, the operational specification of learning objectives; (2) to…

The bulletin reports on significant research, development, and current practice that bear on the social studies and the disadvantaged for levels K-12. The report is intended to serve as a guide for curriculum decision makers and other educators interested in teaching about, as well as to, the disadvantaged. The following five areas are discussed:…