A 64-item questionnaire was used to determine college students' (N=1,515) attitudes/knowledge on energy issues. Comparisons were made between classroom (nonvolunteers) and library (volunteers) participants on opinions regarding energy situation, attitudes regarding energy future, energy-related knowledge questions, and attitude/knowledge change…

Discusses previous articles in this journal issue and addresses issues concerning the acquisition of specific social knowledge. (FL)

Examines the extent to which two classrooms of rural southern first graders shared common sex-role beliefs within an institutional setting that emphasized conflicting (traditional and egalitarian) gender-specific expections. Findings are presented, including that boys and girls drew from the total range of masculine, feminine, and neutral…

Administered Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz to Australian undergraduates (N=188). Provided documentation based on available Australian statistics. Results showed a high degree of similarity in factual knowledge, misconceptions, and direction of bias of Australian students compared to those tested in the United States. (Author)

A study found that Kentucky school health education programs are not resulting in great knowledge of health issues among high school seniors. Reasons for this lack of health knowledge include: (1) The majority of health education teachers remain poorly trained in health; and (2) Health education has not been properly emphasized or valued within…

Services and needs of handicapped children in Bangladesh were examined through a survey of eight rural and six urban areas. Journal availability: see EC 133 861. (DB)

Focused on the role of formal continuing education in helping persons prepare for retirement. Preretirees involved in lifelong learning were found to be more concerned about their own development regardless of age and more aware of the options available to them upon retirement. (Author)

An example of a one-month training program on developmental disabilities for pediatric residents is presented. (Author/PHR)

The possible bias resulting from excluding nonresponders in tabulating data from mail survey questionnaires in a dentist population was investigated. The differences between the responders and the nonresponders were analyzed with respect to the dentists' demographic data, attitudes, and knowledge. Nonresponse bias did not affect the results of…

This paper discusses some of the factors which have to be considered in constructing an adequate description of the understanding of mathematics. It examines three models of understanding which have appeared during the last three years. (Author/MK)

Briefly reviews some of the major theories about the conceptualization of the research policy interplay and identifies assumptions on which existing research is based. Introduces an original theory which assumes the concepts, ideas, and knowledge have no meaning independent of their use and the task of inquiry is to identify and criticize the…

Reports research which tests the Stigler Hypothesis. The hypothesis suggests that students who have taken introductory economics courses and those who have not show little difference in test performance five years after completing college. Results of the author's research illustrate that economics students do retain some knowledge of economics…

Shows that Plato's categories of knowledge may be used as conceptual frameworks for the study of film. (GT)

Suggests that curriculum workers take time to write accounts of their experiences in developing curriculum and maintains that the literature on curriculum development should contain more accounts and analyses by curriculum workers. (Author/DB)

Recounts statistical inaccuracies in an article on computer-aided instruction in economics courses on the college level. The article, published in the J. Econ. Ed (Fall 1978), erroneously placed one student in the TIPS group instead of the control group. Implications of this alteration are discussed. (DB)