This document includes introductory essays, excerpted documents, and selected bibliographies to promote a national dialogue concerning America for its Bicentennial. Bicentennial Youth Debates (BYD) is a national program developed by the Speech Communication Association and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The…

Four papers prepared for a training workshop sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development constitute this document on State Title V program evaluation needs and criteria. Entitled "Why Evaluation of the State Title V Programs: An Overview from Different Perspectives", the first paper deals with seven major audiences…

An Afro-American literature course was established at Chicago City College to present a survey of writers who reflected the Black experience in America and to examine their works as artistic entities in their historical and sociological context. Background lectures on many aspects of Afro-American literature accompanied studies of material grouped…

Several essays are presented which discuss alternative delivery systems for adult education in Canada. The individual papers focus on the following topics: 1) an overview of an open Basic Training for Skill Development program; 2) Canadian open adult learning systems; 3) the affective relationship between television and the adult basic education…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Edith Kern, Claude-Edmonde Magny, Henri Peyre, Kenneth Douglas, Edmund Wilson, Theophil Spoerri, Jacques Guicharnaud, Eric Bentley, Robert Champigny, Oreste F. Pucciani, Frederic Jameson, Rene Girard, Guido…

The prediction of students' writing ability by the development of multiple regression models was investigated. Seventy-one essays and scores on the California Language Test by average seventh graders were used. Essays were entered in a modified Project Essay Grade (PEG) computer program. Results for three specific models are presented: (1) overall…

This collection of essays contains magazine and journal articles that were published in 1969-70. Although the primary function of these essays is to help educators keep up with the recent literature in the field, the volume is divided into three parts so that one or more parts may be used to fulfill local needs and supplement course reading lists.…

This 20-item science test (18 multiple choice and 2 essay) is hand scored and has a 30 minute time limit. Analysis of raw scores by "t" test is provided. There has been limited field testing. See TM 000 959. (DLG)

This collection of essays includes topics from several areas of linguistics with special attention paid to the issue of language diversity, especially as confronted in the multilingual and multicultural southwestern United States. The first section contains essays on various topics ranging from the value of abstract syntax to "Homophones and the…

This revised manual has been designed to be used by Navy instructors in shore-based schools, training afloat, and components of the Naval Reserve as a guide for the construction and use of achievement tests. The seven chapters cover: 1. Navy Training and Achievement Testing; 2. Performance and Identification Tests; 3. Written Tests; 4.…

A quinmester journalism writing course that explores serious techniques used in effective articles that mold opinion is presented in this course guide. The course focuses upon responsibility, good taste, the problem of censorship, crusading, and propaganda techniques. Reading of editorials and columns and practice in writing are included.…

A monograph exploring issues in behavior and behavioral objectives is presented. Following the introduction, there are six sections in this book. In the opening section, George Henry uses a philosophical point of view to look for goals underlying the behaviorist's approach to English teaching. Section two is a sympathetic examination of the ends…

The essay-type items of postgraduate achievement examinations in psychology for students at the University of Peshawar were classified, and the relative frequencies of the items were compared with those for psychology examinations administered at a British university. The dimensions of Analysis and Synthesis appeared to be underrepresented at…

To liberate individuals and free colleges to do what they do best the author proposes that each person receive a fixed sum of $10,000 on his eighteenth birthday or upon graduation from high school to be drawn through increased take-home pay, or used for further education, or for financial investment. (JT)

Criticising human capital analysis as it has been applied to public policy (e.g. seeing educational institutions as means to greater personal and national income and substituting capital for labor, which causes competition for students' borrowed money), the author argues for a negative income tax and an endowment funding for institutions of higher…