This bibliography contains reviews of more than 250 audiovisual materials in eight subject areas related to nutrition: (1) general nutrition; (2) life cycle; (3) diet/health and disease; (4) health and athletics; (5) food - general; (6) food preparation and service; (7) food habits and preferences; and (8) food economics and concerns. Materials…

A method for determining a school district's ranking of its educational goals, making use of board of education, administration, faculty, and community attitudes toward local needs, is outlined in this document. Written for use in Pennsylvania districts, the manual is designed to serve in conjunction with the state's Educational Quality Assessment…

Fifty-six charts present data on the characteristics of American working women and their changing status over the past 25 years. The major data source is the Current Population Survey conducted monthly for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of Census. Part 1 provides information on employment and unemployment. In January 1975 some 36 and…

This publication presents performance flow charts and other accompanying forms that are elements of an economical computerized continuing inventory system. The system described here is intended to serve school systems as an adequate fixed asset system and to provide a computerized inventory model that offers support for costs of future educational…

This paper presents the present dilemma of declining productivity gains in the private sector and illustrates efforts to reverse the trend. Also presented are techniques being used by companies that are successful in improving their productivity. Finally, specific illustrations of techniques for improving productivity in the educational enterprise…

This paper presents a nontraditional definition of competency and describes in detail a comprehensive model for the development of competency-based curricula based on that definition. The model was developed through the anasynthesis procedure and was validated through application in the development of competency-based curricula for three programs…

This technical manual is intended for the use of those familiar with data processing who wish to understand the internal operations of the PEAPOL system (Program Evaluation at the Performance Objective Level). This automated system is described, including ten specific computer program descriptions with flow charts. Designed to allow vocational…

This study defined a type of information-processing task analysis and an index relating different instructional sequences to this analysis. One hundred sixty-four college students were taught, with computer-assisted instruction, an imaginary science by various instructional sequences or by selecting their own sequence. A program-controlled…

A working party of the Engineering Employees' Federation in the Lancashire and Cheshire region in England met to consider management training and development, to examine the arrangements for management training and development in large companies, and to make recommendations to small and medium sized ones. Data collected from companies through a…

Preliminary information about a model system by which state vocational education agencies may conduct periodic program evaluations is presented. Another facet of the system is the facilitation of programmatic decision making through the incorporation of information about national and state interests, student benefits, and manpower requirements.…

Evaluations are presented of recently produced media products designed for use in schools. The materials are grouped in three main categories--films, filmstrips and others, including kits, charts, tapes, filmloops and slides. Within categories, the products are arranged by the following subject matters: man as an individual, man as a social…

This publication consists of an instructional program planning guide matrix and flow chart on a separate foldout form and a curriculum guide for health occupations education. The first two sections provide instructions to assist in the design of health occupations training programs and a synopsis for each program plotted on the matrix and flow…

The past few decades have been an era of rapid growth and expansion for university and research libraries, yet their standards of library services have declined. Specifically, more people more often cannot get the information they seek from the library. The main factors in this decline in service are the rapidly increasing numbers both of volumes…

Designed to provide a useful tool for the instruction and increased awareness of the growing number of computer users throughout the world, this edition of the dictionary was based on an information search which provided 22,000 separate definitions and concept explanations. Appended are an introduction to computer system principles and procedures,…

This monograph describes the Alberta College Commission Master Planning Project, which includes all post-secondary non-university and continuing education services in the province. The areas covered are: (1) the need for planning--system efficiency and effectiveness, coordination of post-secondary education; (2) the Alberta College Commission…