Author describes an experiment to inter-weave three disciplines-history, sociology, and philosophy-in an extra-mural course on violence and revolution. (Editor/LF)

The role of research in higher education is analyzed with a history of how it achieved its status and an analogy of what circumstances must surround its continuance. (HS)

Centers could do much to increase the registers of adult education centers if they exploited the educational possibilities found within counter attractions. Author describes one successful attempt to put this into practice. (RB)

In an innovative program which is being tested in California schools, students furnish and develop ideas for products, investigate and determine the feasibility of manufacturing and marketing these products, and plan and implement the manufacturing and marketing of selected products on a limited basis. (JK)

The Knitting, Lace, and Net Industry Training Board in Great Britain is beginning to work with management training, using three firms for experimental pilot projects. The Board plans to introduce this management system throughout the industry. (MF)

Guidelines for operating the employment service as a comprehensive manpower agency are being field tested in 10 cities and one rural area. Two of the most important tools are Job Banks which computerize job opening and training opportunities and employability teams which provide comprehensive client counseling. (BC)

A unique summer program for art students and teachers who wish to go beyond the conventional boundaries of the visual and performing arts is described. (CK)

The paper discussed the difficulties and problems in experimental researches in educational technology, such as misunderstanding in teachers' concept, disjointedness between theory and practice, inadequate understanding of dialectics in experimental educational technology researches, research project selection and theoretical hypothesis formation…

J. S. Joseph, M. M. Chun, and K. Nakayama (1997) found that pop-out visual search was impaired as a function of intertarget lag in an attentional blink (AB) paradigm in which the 1st target was a letter and the 2nd target was a search display. In 4 experiments, the present authors tested the implication that search efficiency should be similarly…

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether abrupt onsets are capable of reflexively capturing attention when they occur outside the current focus of spatial attention, as would be expected if exogenous orienting operates in a truly automatic fashion. The authors established a highly focused attentional state by means of the central…

Describes an innovative consumer education curriculum at Dartmouth Middle School in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. (JA)

Among the many problems in interpreting the results of the experiment is the determination of what can be inferred from a limited duration experiment about the behavioral effects of a negative income tax. This paper examines and interprets experimental data based on the labor supply model. (Author/BP)