Discusses the advantages of correspondence education in England and the Netherlands, the development of correspondence education in both countries, and the more recent developments of the Open University in England and the Foundation Inspection of Education by Correspondence (ISO) in the Netherlands, the former enlarging educational opportunities…

Describes some company-sponsored educational programs designed for company employees who want to better their financial and job status. Shows how companies can blend outside and inside resources to fashion their educational programs. (Author/RK)

This research finds that the experience of time-in-passing is an inverse function of the processing demanded by a concurrent task. An attentional model is suggested and evaluated against the literature. (Editor/RK)

The hypothesis that letters can be matched on the basis of tactual physical features was tested in three experiments with blind Braille-reading children. (Editor)

Explores the hypothesis that students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grade who were exposed to the "fraction ruler" as a manipulative for exploring basic fraction operations would perform more successfully in addition, subtraction and multiplication problems than students taught fraction operations by the traditional method. (Author/RK)

While it is clear that schizophrenic patients often exhibit disordered thinking, the specific nature of the deficit and its role, either as a basis of abnormal behavior or as a symptom of malfunction in some underlying control process, remain to be clarified by research and by theory. Describes two experiments on the performance of conceptual…

The major aim of this research was to study the ability of schizophrenic patients to solve problems that involve abstract thought and to transfer training from one problem to another. (Author/RK)

The present study was conducted to establish a scoring key for the Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey appropriate for predicting academic performance. Results point to the utility of non-cognitive measures in predicting academic performance, particularly when scoring keys tailored to the specific situation are empirically derived. Suggestions…

These experiments consider the effects of aging on response times to stimuli of increasing complexity in serial choice RT tasks, whether age differences were reduced or abolished on such tasks, and examines repetition effects of a particular coding rule. (Author/RK)

A two-process theory of the spacing (lag) effect in free recall is presented and tested. (Editor/RK)

A number of quality assurance educational evaluation methods are illustrated. Evaluation data obtained from the Providence, Rhode Island, school district are used. The methods are: (1) from auditing, internal control; (2) from accounting, double bookkeeping; and (3) from industrial quality control, acceptance sampling and cumulative percentage…

This essay addresses problems associated with technology used in the handling of high-resolution visual images in electronic document delivery. Highlights include visual fidelity, laser-driven optical disk storage, electronics versus micrographics for document storage, videomicrographics, and system configurations and peripherals. (EJS)

Describes an instructional performance engineering model for changing ineffective instructional practices. The model postulates that attempts to change instructor practices should concentrate on instructional performance variables that can be directly influenced: information, instrumentation, and motivation. The model relates these variables to…

Current awareness services at AT&T Bell Laboratories are described: bulletins announcing over 80,000 externally published items/year; production of four commercial machine-readable databases and camera-ready bulletin copy by Bell Laboratories Publication, Alerting, and Retrieval System (BELLPAR); photocopy service. Improvements in service are…

Reviews demand for marketing personnel in online industry and provides brief descriptions of generic positions which include information on background and experience needed: vice president of marketing, sales manager, sales representative, advertising manager, product manager, marketing research manager, distribution manager, service manager,…