This pamphlet provides useful tips to parents interested in choosing safe toys for children 2-7 years old. Criteria age given to guide against buying potentially dangerous electrical and nonelectrical playthings. Rules for use and care of outdoor play equipment are suggested. Also described are precautions which parents may take to decrease the…

This book charts procedures for the selection and purchase of instructional materials and related services for the public schools of the United States. It is addressed to school board members, administrators, teachers, curriculum specialists, librarians, and media specialists. Chapter 1 deals whith changing conditions affecting selection including…

The guide is intended to help parents talk to their retarded child about sex and to answer the child's sex-related questions. The term sex education is interpreted to cover all areas having to do with human sexuality, including attitudes, feelings, behavior, and relating to oneself and others. The position is taken that the better informed a child…

The manual describes procedures and techniques required for the collection of academic survival skill data (data on the classroom behavior of students and the teacher or peer responses to that behavior). The observer is provided with guidelines to assure smooth data collection through proper equipment functioning and the maintenance of good…

Prior training research for contemporary efforts to exploit computers for training suggests the following precautions: 1) Computer-based training should always be conceived of in such a way that it can be related to what is known about conditions for effective training. 2) No computer offers a training system which is obviously so superior that no…

The Task Force on Library Service to Children appointed in 1971 prepared these guidelines. The history and background that led to this appointment is given in the guidelines. The pilot program was to involve a number of centers which would demonstrate a variety of service patterns so that strengths and weaknesses of both the school and public…

Few standards for reference services have appeared in the past, therefore guidelines for reference librarians at the University of Michigan--Dearborn library are offered. The guidelines presented are based upon reference standards prepared by the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) Standards Committee for the ALA Centennial Conference in…

This report presents guidelines and recommendations for developing the library which serves the Faculty of Medicine and its teaching hospitals at the University of Azarabadegan, Iran. The present library situation and recommendations, together with suggestions for their implementation, are offered. Recommended changes include the development of…

This is one of a series of eight short monographs intended to aid practicing educators in planning and conducting accountability programs in schools. This booklet discusses how to construct and utilize a mail questionnaire that is appropriate to the objectives of a particular research or evaluation effort. Short sections focus in turn on the…

Provided in the manual are instructions for the adaptation, utilization, and creation of multi-purpose gameboards for use with handicapped children. Games are seen to facilitate learning through the structuring of experience and the opportunity to learn the consequences of actions without actually suffering these consequences. Explained are the…

Asserts the value of booktalks in the work of young adult librarians and gives guidelines for preparing and conducting a booktalk. (PF)

Examines the stance of the corporation as advocate and communicator of information of concern to its employees and publics and presents guidelines for organizations that are considering implementing advocacy communications. (MH)

Suggests ways of setting up a microteaching programme including equipment and laboratory organization, student timetables and supervising tutors. (Author)

Article discussed twenty-three ways that the typical independent school could analyze its existing pattern of expenditures and make significant cost savings during a budget crisis. (Author/RK)

Based on fieldwork among the news media in Washington, D.C., this article discusses the organization of newspapers and the methods of science writers. Procedures for contacting and disseminating information through the media are outlined. (Author/NQ)