This guide for aviation technician training begins with a course description, resource information, and a course outline. Tasks/competencies are categorized into 16 concept/duty areas: understanding technical symbols and abbreviations; understanding mathematical terms, symbols, and formulas; computing decimals; computing fractions; computing ratio…

This report documents the observations and findings of a research study which was conducted in Indonesia, Chile, and Peru between January and June 1989 to discover the status of educational technology in primarily formal education settings in each country. The five stated objects of the study were: (1) to determine the extent of educational…

This report presents the findings of a survey of 292 preservice teachers concerning their attitudes toward the personal use and school use of microcomputers. The students' attitudes were measured on a variety of issues including computer assisted instruction, feasibility of computer use, value of computer use, confidence in personal ability to use…

The 12 articles and stories in this issue focus on the integration of work and learning and on adult learning. "An Introduction to 'Work and Learning'" (Lee Herman) outlines the scope of the volume. "Child's Work" (Nancy Wallace) shows children's independent play to be important intellectual work. "Learning to Write"…

This report aims to show how an emphasis on vocabulary can contribute to courses in English for Specific Purposes (ESP), using the data from two lexical studies. The first study attempts to discover to what extent there may be a general language of science, or semi-technical vocabulary. This type of vocabulary would seem to offer a useful…

This report discusses Senate Bill no. 272, which provides for a coordinated federal research and development program to ensure continued U.S. leadership in high-performance computing. High performance computing is defined as representing the leading edge of technological advancement in computing, i.e., the most sophisticated computer chips, the…

Noting that the advance of new technologies and the rise of service economies have dramatically changed the socioeconomic development of the world and forced nations to adopt national information policies, this handbook explores the concept of such policies. It is based on the experiences reported in numerous country case studies, meeting…

This monograph explains the new economy from the point of view of people at work. It begins by providing an overview of the new economy and places the United States in it. Separate aspects of the new economy are elaborated in five parts. Part I presents the competitive standards that provide the cornerstone for the new economic reality: robust…

This compilation of resolutions and positions of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) provides a collective representation of the current and past recommendations of the Senate for strengthening academic standards in California's community colleges. First, ASCCC resolutions are presented regarding academic standards,…

The last of a three-part series on computer-assisted instruction (CAI), this report describes microcomputer applications in special education, music, visual arts, speech arts and drama, home economics, and industrial/vocational arts. Under each subject heading, current and developing computer applications are discussed and specific courseware…

Developments in college teaching, research, staff development in Australia during the 1980s are addressed in 38 papers from the 1983 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. Themes of the papers include: institutional change, staff perceptions of rewards, professional development, students and tertiary…

At present, student teaching in most colleges in Japan consists of a 6-week four-credit course of study taken during the last year of training. Many feel this preparation is too short a time for students to be trained adequately, so Japan's Hyogo University of Teacher Education has revised its student teacher program. At Hyogo, students are…

Following the substitution of a Learning Resources Specialist's (LRS) certification for the traditional school librarian's certification in Texas and the subsequent merging of the Departments of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Educational Media and Technology (ETEC) at East Texas State University (ETSU), the immediate supervisors of 28…

This booklet, one in a series on aviation careers, outlines the variety of careers available for airplane pilots and flight engineers. The first part of the booklet provides general information about careers for pilots and summarizes the information in a table. In the main part of the booklet, the following 11 job categories are outlined: flight…

Although the availability, economy, and independence of microcomputers have helped renew interest in computer assisted instruction (CAI) in English, at present there are six things hindering the use of CAI in college-level English: (1) lack of money, (2) educational conservatism, (3) current hardware deficiencies, (4) English techers' lack of…