A profile of university teachers in Canada is presented focusing on: previous employment status, citizenship status, and rank distribution. The profile, which is based on information collected on full-time university teachers from the over 100 university-level institutions in Canada, covers the period 1972-1973 through 1974-1975. Almost 60 percent…

The study involving two profoundly retarded, multiply handicapped children (8 and 11 years old) was designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the time delay/stimulus-transfer procedure and a progressive cue teaching strategy on the initial acquisition of verbal control over motor behaviors of Ss. The time delay strategy consisted of two…

Six methods by which the departmental chairperson can improve instruction are presented. The first method is improving instruction by example. The chairman can sponsor discussions at faculty meetings designed to explore what comprises good teaching and identify members of his/her staff to serve as models. A second method of improving instruction…

A STUDY WAS MADE AT TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. OF THE EFFECT OF ANXIETY ON LEARNING TIME AND ATTITUDES AMONG NEW EMPLOYEES. BEFORE INTERVIEWS WITH ASSEMBLY WORKERS AND THEIR SUPERVISORS THE EXPERIMENT IDENTIFIED THE IMPORTANCE OF ANXIETY IN INHIBITING JOB EFFECTIVENESS FOR BOTH OPERATORS AND SUPERVISORS. NEW WOMEN ASSEMBLY WORKERS WERE DIVIDED INTO A…

The effectiveness of visible recorded feedback responses in teaching scientific theory and principles to vocational agriculture students was studied. Specific objectives were to determine the value of group feedback to the teacher, the difference in learning retention between students with and without feedback, and the difference in efficient use…

DIRECT MAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION IS NOW POSSIBLE THROUGH ON-LINE, REAL-TIME TYPEWRITER TERMINALS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO COMPUTERS. THESE TERMINAL SYSTEMS PERMIT THE OPERATOR, WHETHER ORDER CLERK, CATALOGER, REFERENCE LIBRARIAN OR TYPIST, TO INTERACT WITH THE COMPUTER IN MANIPULATING DATA STORED WITHIN IT. THE IBM ADMINISTRATIVE TERMINAL SYSTEM…

An instructor's manual prepared at a 1967 conference of the American Society of Information Science and designed for use in an introductory tutorial on EDP (Electronic Data Processing) concepts is presented. The manual covers a selection of topics appropriate to a general course for individuals with little or no direct experience. Following an…

Fifty-four participants met to consider counseling and training for women who were entering or re-entering the labor force after varying periods of time devoted to their families, and the need for day care services and facilities for children of working mothers, provision for maternity leave, and part-time work. Presentations were: (1) "Women…

The problem of the study was the effectiveness of three teaching techniques -- lecture-demonstration procedure supplemented with the programed textbook, autoinstructional procedure using only the programed textbook, and the conventional lecture-demonstration procedure. The control-experimental group method was used to collect the data from 110…

The purposes of this study were to determine the impact of the 1965 revised standards for the accreditation of undergraduate programs of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) upon evening college programs, and delineate implications for evening colleges. A brief questionnaire was used to examine the general effects of…

This study was done to ascertain indicators (if any) of leisure as an emergent social institution, the opinions of suburban adults on leisure, and their opinions about the role of the schools and other social institutions in preparing youth for leisure. A literature survey confirmed leisure as a growing social force. Survey respondents (185 heads…

"Reverse" transfer students are students who began their post-secondary education at a four-year institution and then transferred to a two-year college. "Lateral" transfer students are those who began at one two-year college and later transferred to another two-year college. A review of the admissions and enrollment records at…

A computerized adaptive testing model was applied to a hierarchically arranged series of subtests within the instructional context of a technical education system. The model was a modification of Lord's flexilevel paradigm; however, it did not allow for individualized entry. Two achievement tests, each divided into five hierarchically related…

These three reports analyze characteristics of Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College students in fall l977. The first report compares average credit hours taken by students in 1977 against 1975 and 1976 figures, and breaks down data for each of several college campuses in terms of full- and part-time registration in academic, technical, vocational…

This paper presents an evaluation of the Teach-A-Tot Children's Center, a demonstration project designed to encourage the development of innovative programs in early childhood education. The evaluation encompassed six areas of program functioning: (1) linguistic, intellectual, and social development; (2) the benefits of full time versus part time…