Conducted as part of a continuing effort to understand the nature of persistence and withdrawal at Southwestern College, this study focused on the student who signs up for classes, is active on the census date, but completely withdraws from school before the end of the semester. The study provides the following: (1) the descriptive statistics, the…

This document is concerned with the major components of the process of planning new or remodeling old facilities for the teaching of home economics. The philosophy of home economics and trends within the field of study should form the basis for planning facilities, followed by a delineation of the roles and responsibilities of all involved…

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a method of examing communication in an organization by focusing on: (1) the complex interrelationships in human systems, particularly in communication systems; (2) interactions across subsystems and system boundaries; and (3) the need to select and "prioritize" channels which will eliminate noise in the…

To fill a need for defining and describing 15 occupational clusters identified by the U.S. Office of Education for a comprehensive career education program in a Texas county, this federally funded analysis presents separately for each of the 15 clusters a rationale, methodology, subgroupings into job families and occupational listings, and a chart…

The document, intended to convey some practical application of behavior principles to teachers and teacher educators involved with exceptional children, is a synthesis of the 12 presentations from the CEC Invisible College on the Application of Behavioral Principles in Exceptional Child Education (March 25-26, 1971). Although all were…

This paper describes an application of Computer Assisted Instruction named 'genpbs' consisting of five modules of preliminary instruction and 19 modules of problems for students in an introductory genetics course. Each problem module consists of an average of 14 problems arranged in increasing level of difficulty. The program also contains a…

Aesthetic awareness of American and Japanese children grades one, four, seven, and ten was measured by indicated preference of one of two simultaneously projected color slides. (Author)

A general decision-theory analysis of the word-frequency effect in recognition memory is carried out. On the basis of the analysis and data from a forced-choice experiment two distinct causes of the frequency effect are defined. (Editor)

A free-recall procedure demonstrated state-dependent learning using alcohol. Information encoded and stored while intoxicated was more effectively retrieved when later tests of recall were performed while intoxicated, as compared to recall accomplished in the sober state. (Editor/RK)

Describes the basic characteristics of APL as a general programing language and builds a case for its use in teaching. (CMV)

Presents a chart of anti-Jewish laws which were instituted in Germany from 1933-38. Sections of the laws are reprinted and a short explanation of the laws is given. (Author/DB)

By providing an educational alternative, Further Education or Adult Education was believed to be providing an alternative in social terms--that is, a form of education to which working-class youths had relatively easy access. Is the concept applicable to Scotland and does it provide an alternative route that is used by the working class? This…

Briefly describes what is meant by the English examination system, how it has come to take the forms that it does, and why such importance is attached to it. Thereafter, some problems and developments in examinations in art and design education are considered with six examination proposals summarizing the aims of art and design studies. (Author/RK)

Presents recent research data which strongly support the widely held intuitive feeling that beginning teachers find the first year of teaching to be one of severe disillusionment. (Author)

Two experiments investigated serial recall with eight-word lists in which the frequency rating of the terminal word was manipulated. The effect on recall of two kinds of verbal "stimulus suffix" as well as a control noise suffix was also tested. Recall for the terminal items in the lists was analyzed. (Editor)