Standards must be revised to bring them in line with current educational goals and to direct school library and audiovisual programs. The standards presented here have been prepared by a joint Committee of the American Association of School Librarians and the Department of Audiovisual Instruction of the National Education Association in…

This booklet presents 451 money-saving ideas and techniques intended to aid school board members and administrators in American schools. Many of the ideas included were drawn from responses to questionnaires that were sent to 1,612 chief school administrators and 227 presidents of school supply and service companies. Each idea is numbered and…

This activity book provides a list of varied resources available to students as they work through the instructional objectives at the Fort Lincoln school. Items listed include equipment and supplies ordered for the school, books, selected offerings from the metropolitan community, selected programs provided by the D.C. Public Schools, science and…

The experiences of public and private educational institutions with slant track videotape recording systems were surveyed. The users were requested to describe the type and brand of equipment they owned and to rate the machine's reliability and ascertain other performance factors. The survey also investigated the method of selection of equipment,…

Simulation games were used as part of a summer program with 76 students who were either not interested or not benefiting from traditional classroom approaches. The Democracy Game and the Consumer Game were played for five days in place of regular English classes. Questionnaires were administered to the students before and after game participation.…

Activities reported herein include studies conducted, contracts, and development group work. Technical notes are presented concerning the design of science laboratories for Asian secondary level schools; it is noted that changed designs for curriculum and new methods of teaching science have necessitated new approaches to the design of science…

The editors of this yearbook preface their directory section with a discussion of the systems approach to education. Over 2000 teaching programs--industrial and educational--are listed alphabetically by titles under the appropriate subject heading. All the programs listed were available in Great Britain at the time of the yearbook's publication.…

The presentations and discussions at a two-day seminar held in Washington, D.C. in November 1971 are compiled here. They deal with the composite perplexity of the education consumer in his need for standardization of equipment, technology and materials. It is in part a statement of problems and in part the product of a concerted effort by some 70…

A wide range of information on educational and instructional technology is collected in this yearbook of the Association of Programed Learning and Educational Technology (APLET). This is presented in order to put users in contact with meterials, equipment and ideas, and to forge lines of communication among users. Six major sections comprise the…

This Working Paper is one of a series of studies commissioned by the Schools Council to establish whether development work could be organized to help teachers design relevant and useful five year courses for pupils who leave school at age 16, when this becomes the legal age limit in Great Britain in 1971. The ability range considered is that of…

Tentative formulas for calculating the cost of maintaining educational communications equipment are proposed. The formulas are based on a survey of campuses of the State University of New York. The survey analyzed the types of equipment to be maintained, types of maintenance, who uses the equipment, who services the equipment, and the cost…

Title VI-A provides matching federal funds for the purchase of college and university laboratory and audiovisual equipment, closed-circuit television equipment and classroom materials related to the improvement of undergraduate education. This report presents case studies of 12 institutions which obtained Title VI-A funds in the past 4 years. The…

The study investigated metric conversion costs using two mailed instruments to obtain frequency and cost data on equipment and textbook holdings from 39 schools in Alberta. Detailed results indicated an overall conversion cost of $1,000,000 with mechanics and construction-fabrication career fields accounting for most of the total. (Author/MS)

Viewing a specification as both an internal and an external communications tool, information and guidance are provided in the critically important area of specifying what to look for when purchasing specific types of instructional equipment or systems. (Author/MLF)