The implications for education are discussed in an experiment that measured student desire to achieve either at a high or low standard in the classroom. (Editor/RK)

The period of stress which colleges and universities currently face is analyzed in terms of environmental and organizational factors. (Editor)

This study explored the differential effects of a noxious stimulus under two conditions of information concerning the time of occurrence of the stress and two conditions of receiving temporal information. (Author/RK)

Discussed a large-scale curriculum development project in music; how it was innovative, why it was undertaken, and what the known deficiencies were in music programs that necessitated curriculum reform in music. (Author/RK)

The teaching of non-numerical flow charting to all pupils is advocated as a means of preparing students for decision making. Several sample problems are provided. (SD)

The expansion of an established child care referral and child development service to meet the needs of employees of the Peninsula Hospital and Medical Center, San Mateo County, California, is described in this report. The possibility of working with an existing resource and referral agency to develop and/or provide special services for hospital…

The creation of Japan/MARC--a system employing Kanji script (Chinese characters as adopted by the Japanese)--as the online database for Japanese bibliographic records marks a significant development in the availability of the Japanese national bibliography and should give stimulus to other countries using Chinese as a predominant language.…

The general inability of instructional developers to demonstrate the effects of instructional development services toward improving college programs is discussed, and a process for program evaluation and revision is proposed. A flow chart of the general process for continuous program evaluation and revision provides examples of operational…

PATN is a design for a machine problem solver which uses an augmented transition network (ATN) to represent planning knowledge. In order to explore PATN's potential as a theory of human problem solving, a linguistic approach to protocol analysis is presented. An interpretation of a protocol is taken to be a parse tree supplemented by semantic and…

This selective bibliography includes review articles and supportive and nonsupportive studies on two categories of instructional strategies that facilitate meaningful learning--imagery eleciting strategies and holistic strategies. Imagery strategies are those which involve picture or visual processing, e.g., text relevant illustrations, learner…

AN ANALYSIS OF FACULTY COMPENSATIONS SHOWS THAT THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE INCREASE DROPPED FROM 7.3 PERCENT IN 1965-66 TO 6.8 PERCENT IN 1966-67. THESE FIGURES, HOWEVER, DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT INCREASES WHICH RESULT FROM PROMOTION OF INDIVIDUALS, AND THUS THEY UNDERSTATE THE INDIVIDUAL'S INCREASED COMPENSATION. THE PERFORMANCE OF INSTITUTIONS IN…

Currently being developed by the State Library of Queensland, Australia, ORACLE (On-Line Retrieval of Acquisitions, Cataloguing, and Circulation Details for Library Enquiries) is a computerized library system designed to provide rapid processing of library materials in a multi-user environment. It is based on the Australian MARC format and fully…