Volume 3 contains chapters 9 through 13 of the final report on the control of atmospheric emissions in the wood pulping industry. These chapters deal with the following topics: sampling and analytical techniques; on-going research related to reduction of emissions; research and development recommendations; current industry investment and operating…

The 1966 meeting of the Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with accelerated educational change. The following speeches were presented: (1) "Access to Higher Education: Implications for Future Planning" by Richard Pearson; (2) "The Differentiated Youth: A Challenge to Traditional Institutions" by Joseph D. Lohman; (3) "Teaching…

Three tests of intellectual performance capacity referring to factors V, S, and R, according to Thurstone's system of primary mental abilities were administered to a total number of 34 subjects. Immediately after finishing an individual item, subjects were asked to estimate the perceived difficulty of that item. The ratings were to be given on a…

This report documents the operational efforts of State Research Coordinating Units in the United States and Puerto Rico for the first six months of the 1973 fiscal year. The purpose of the report is to provide information which will serve to alert project directors, vocational leaders, and educators to the research and developmental activities…

In order to ascertain Williams Air Force Base Instructor Pilots' (IPs) and Student Pilots' (SPs) perceptions concerning cruciality of components of flight instruction and their perceptions regarding areas of instruction in need of improvement, a questionnaire was developed and administered to 82 IPs and 50 SPs. Results revealed that a majority of…

The report analyzes tasks the Army must perform in the 1970's, based on current trends and the foreseeable world situations. The Army must recruit and train an all-volunteer force, develop new leadership skills, improve its morale and public image, learn better methods for internal defense operations, operate overseas, and carry out major changes…

An experiment was conducted to clarify the relations between affect and altruism by inducing affect directly. It was hypothesized that children who experienced positive affect would share more than controls, while those experiencing negative affect would share significantly less than controls. Ss were 25 girls and 18 boys from the second and third…

Forty-eight preschool children were run under a classical conditioning paradigm in which some neutral stimuli were repeatedly associated with an adult matching the behavior of the subject, and other neutral stimuli were associated with the same adult mismatching the behavior of the subject. Preference for the stimuli associated with being matched…

The Canadian Ministry of Indian Affairs and Northern Development issued its 1971-72 annual report on Indian and northern affairs in the areas of education, economics, conservation, and community development. The report covers the ministry's organization, regional offices, the Conservation Program, the Indian-Eskimo Program, the Northern…

This document is a report on the proceedings of the 1973 American Federation of Teachers-Quality Educational Standards in Teaching (AFT-QuEST) consortium sponsored by the AFT. Included in this document are the texts of speeches and outlines of workshops and iscussions. The document is divided into the following sections: goals, major proposals,…

This document is a report on the activities of the Council for Cultural Co-Operation (CCC) and Cultural Fund for 1972. The CCC is briefly defined as being designed to reinforce educational and cultural cooperation among the 21 countries of the CCC, especially in matters of research, information, and documentation. The document is composed of…

Recent studies have demonstrated that computer based training programs which incorporate adaptive branching are superior to fixed sequence programs that require each student to see and respond to every training frame. A study was therefore devised to investigate two different ways to control such branching (student controlled or program…

In an alphabetical listing by States, the report summarizes the research activities of the State Research Coordinating Units (RCU's) conducted under Section 131 (6) of Part C of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 during the first six months of fiscal year 1973. The report's purpose is to provide information that will assist States to be…

This document, published annually, reports general information as well as detailed data concerning both the public and the private segments of the higher education system of Florida. Various tables provide breakdowns of total, graduate, and first-time-in-college enrollment by State and county for each of the four types of schools (public…

This document reports the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University concerning collective bargaining and some of the implications of formal bargaining relations in higher education. Presentations include emerging patterns of faculty bargaining; collective bargaining in higher…