THIS PAPER PRESENTS A DISSENTING VIEW OF PREVAILING CONCEPTS OF EDUCATION AND APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL REFORM. THE AUTHORS STATE THAT REFORMS CURRENTLY DIRECTED AT AMERICAN SCHOOLS ARE GROUNDED IN CONCEPTUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS THAT FAIL TO CONFRONT THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE AGE. THEY OUTLINE THE NATURE OF THESE PROBLEMS,…

The background of institutional accreditation in the United States is described, and its initial purposes outlined. The recent expanded uses of accreditation are attributed to several factors: the growth of specialization in all professional areas; the use of accreditation in determining eligibility for public funds; and pressures from minority…

Designed to assist police departments in improving the productivity of their patrol operations, this volume on specialized patrol and a companion volume on routine patrol operations are intended for use by various sizes of departments. The volume of specialized patrol focuses upon the appropriate use and effective operation of specialized patrol…

This report studies the role and degree of specialization existing among college teachers of education and the relationship of this specialization to rewards and sanctions administered by the institution, job satisfaction, institutional size, and age of the incumbents. Four hundred and twenty-six questionnaires were sent to all college teachers of…

Information science is a young and rapidly growing field, embracing a wide range of subjects and activities. The conference, in ten technical sessions, attempted to cover various aspects of information work. The areas covered were: information analysis and information analysis centers; retrieval of information; selection, education and training of…

Many graduate programs in communication are plagued by "schizophrenia": a wish for relevance to today's problems on the one hand and an allegiance to objective research on the other. Rather than scrapping traditional practices, graduate programs should continue to emphasize the training of research scholars. The research tradition has…

Specific survey test items were developed to gain greater insight into the school and career motivation of incoming freshmen at Shippensburg State College. The survey was administered to 680 members of the class (73 percent). The percentages of student school major representation in the sample generally reflect those of the total class. The…

Careers and problems encountered by the large majority of M.D.-LL.B's who practice legal medicine are examined. The author argues that the legal profession must strive to create institutionalized career lines so that interprofessional medical-legal practice is a well-founded career choice. (JT)

Reviews the current state of enrollments and scope of Soviet polytechnical institutes, and identifies nine areas in which development is needed. These include a network of research groups within polytechnical institutes to create a relationship between research and teaching; selection of base institutes to develop models for specialist training;…

Stresses the need to find the most economical ways to organize instruction in higher education in the Soviet Union. Concludes that concentration of specialist training in specific areas within a limited number of educational institutions will promote efficient utilization of resources. (Author/DB)

The study examined the status of teacher knowledge of reading at the secondary level and investigated the factors which may have contributed to that knowledge--inservice, amount of experience, level of teaching, coursework in reading, field of specialization, and sex. (NQ)

Performances of students from two medical colleges, one allopathic (M.D.) and one osteopathic (D.O.), at Michigan State University in a first course in psychiatry are compared. The M.D. students had scored significantly higher on the MCAT, but there was no difference in psychiatry course performance. (Author/LBH)

The kinds and uses of computers are briefly outlined, and the principal methods and program design of Bulgaria's undergraduate computer science instruction for specialists and nonspecialists are described. (MSE)

The changes in existing specialties and the demographic composition of medical school classes suggested that the predictive validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator should be reexamined. MBTI scores of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine were cross-tabulated with their specialty choice. (MLW)

The role of cognitive style in academic counseling was examined in 427 female teacher education majors by investigation of field dependence among the students in different areas of specialization. Results supported the contention that field dependence is related to choice of area of specialization in a manner consistent with field dependence…