Article discussed the problems that the Open University is having in gaining acceptance and evaluated its benefits to the educational community. (RK)

The major purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of junior college introductory poetry students instructed by modular materials with those instructed by the traditional method, using the criteria of poetry achievement. (Author)

Author wrote about his research into the career choices of British undergraduates. School teaching, surprisingly, headed the list. (Editor/RK)

Procedures to be applicable in situations in which large numbers of individuals are tested or in situations where multiple measures are taken. (Author/CB)

Reports existing practices for describing samples of children in the psychological literature, indicates the problems involved, and recommends specific changes. (Author/JM)

In the present study two modes of information integration, simultaneous and successive, were proposed as alternatives to reasoning and memory. The generality of these two was tested by factor analyzing the cognitive test scores of 9-11-year-old children from Canada and India. (Editor/RK)

The authors describe their own investigation into how the ability to differentiate emotions verbally, an important element in a child's emotional development, is influenced by factors of age, sex and social class. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which social studies teachers in Kansas and Missouri are familiar with and use the materials published by various social studies projects appropriate to high schools. (Author)

This study compared two subgroups of trade and technical teachers to determine whether or not any biographical differences existed. (Author/GB)

The use of matched sampling in experimental and nonexperimental research ahs been frustrated by the problems of attrition and incomplete matching. The amount of attrition of sample size and incomplete matching are shown to be a function of various aspects of the research, including the level of measurement of the matching variables, the sampling…

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

The author assesses the contributions to educational planning of the National Assessment of Education Progress. He gives examples of the findings and asks questions as to how they can be utilized by school systems. (Editor) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Utilization).