This study investigates the effect of attitudes toward mathematics-related coursework, previous mathematics coursework, student sex, spatial ability, and masculinity-feminity of interest pattern on statistics achievement. Subjects were 188 student volunteers from inferential statistics classes taught at a midwestern university during 1977-78.…

The Inter-American Center for the Teaching of Statistics (CIENES), Santiago, Chile--an educational unit of the Organization of American States (OAS)--was evaluated. Elements which were assessed included operating costs and program results; methods of meeting user needs more effectively; identification of possible duplication; and ways in which…

The relation of veterinarian manpower of the WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) states to the veterinary medicine graduates of the WICHE student exchange programs (SEP) is presented. The states included in the WICHE program are Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Tables…

To provide English departments with current information about graduate enrollments and requirements and to ascertain the influence of Don Cameron Allen's study, "The Ph.D. in English and American Literature," the Association of Departments of English mailed questionnaires to 400 chairmen of departments of English. The information obtained from 223…

THE STUDY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BASED ON VISITS TO 5 CAMPUSES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AND INTERVIEWS WITH LIBRARIANS, FACULTY, AND UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, ALSO TAKING INTO ACCOUNT AVAILABLE DATA ON SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF IN CALIFORNIA. CONCLUSIONS ARE THAT THE NEED FOR LIBRARIANS IN THE STATE, THE RAPID EXPANSION OF…

Nearly 100 scholars and teachers gathered in three special conferences on the teaching of English in higher education to discuss and identify areas of special importance in the junior and community college English program, the undergraduate curriculum, and graduate programs in English. A paper was presented by Richard Worthen on the need for…

The primary objective of the University of Denver Law School 1968 Summer Preparatory Institute was to assist in increasing the number of law students, and subsequently the number of lawyers, by giving 40 students from minority groups an opportunity to demonstrate a potential for satisfactory work in law school. The course content of the program…

Part of a faculty handbook by the Graduate School of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this section reviews and discusses research on adult characteristics and adult learning, (including effects of group structure), the setting of course objectives, conditions required for an effective learning experience, teaching methods, and techniques for…

This manual consists of suggestions for setting up new public school adult education programs and extending and enriching existing ones to attack such community concerns as unemployment and the effects of automation. Tax support and local control are considered essential in initiating a program. Suggested steps in planning are hiring the director,…

Collected here are ten unpublished work papers from a 1962 Seminar in Seattle, held for the purpose of evaluating the interdisciplinary needs of the doctoral candidate who is receiving special training to organize the teaching of foreign languages in schools and universities. Authors are Dwight L. Bolinger (linguistics), John B. Carroll (programed…

Birbeck College, a non-residential School of the University of London, provides facilities in central London for part-time education in arts and sciences, at first degree and graduate levels. During 1966, an academic advisory committee studied the future role of the College and reported with recommendations concerning the size and scope of the…

Written primarily by Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) fellows in the University of California, Graduate School of Education, Division of Vocational Education, this issue is a compilation of 14 articles on vocational education: (1) Career Education, We May Need to Explain the "Whole Thing" (Tony Pitale), (2) The Historical and…

An analysis of the Graduate Educational Research Fellowship Training Program at Case Western Reserve University is presented. The key elements of the program involve: financial support of graduate sutdents from a number of social and behavioral science disciplines related to educational problems; commitment on the part of several departments in…

The opportunities for women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are described. Questions related to admission requirements, preparation for entrance, required course work, graduate school, military training, typical cadet basic training schedule (July and August), the athletic program, cadet life, and obligations and career opportunities…

The Interdisciplinary Generic Training Program (IGTP) was designed to train graduate students in related mental health fields, as well as persons without formal mental health training, to deliver team approach social services sensitive to inner city community and family life. During the last year of the program, staff members requested a…