This booklet presents a brief description of human neurological development and outlines a program for children designed to establish neurological organization through movement. The patterns of movement are divided into six areas: (1) General Movement Patterns (such as head rolls, crawling, cross-pattern creeping and walking, running, skipping,…

The Southeastern Day Care Project is an ongoing preschool demonstration project in eight southeastern States. The SDCP has developed and is using a series of rating forms to assess the development of each child in the program in cognitive, social, motor, and self-help skills. Approximately 256 children in SDCP centers have been rated on the forms.…

Competencies for the Child Development Associates is a comprehensive, developmental training program for teachers of preschool children, in which the total design is to help children acquire the basic competencies and skills for full development, while at the same time assuring that the quality of the child's experiences is emotionally satisfying…

If one assumes the validity of the maxim of practicing what one preaches, it is not sound to train student teachers to teach exceptional children while ignoring the student teachers' individual differences in a rigid classroom system. A special education course dealing with emotionally disturbed children was designed as an attempt towards…

The Illinois Three Phase System should be temporarily retained as an administrative tool to be used in relationships between the Division of Vocational and Technical Education and local education agencies. But it is clear that such a system, with its scope directed toward local school districts, with its lack of outcome assessment, and with its…

This report reviews the employment testing of minorities and discusses the limitations of the test results. Statistical validation of test results is stressed as a means to avoid cultural bias and avoid discriminatory screening tests. Noting that fair hiring practices and valid tests may not be enough to provide equal employment opportunities for…

This study--a follow-up to one conducted by Giles in 1965-- compared the written compositions of fourth grade pupils who had been in Project Head Start in the summer of 1965 with those of comparable pupils not in the program to determine possible differences in their written language development. Seventy Negro students were divided by sex and…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the extent to which the conditions of auditory lead and auditory synchronization have an effect on student performance, and to investigate the extent to which the strength of grip of the learner has an effect on manipulative task performance. Fifty-two seventh grade boys without prior instruction in…

This paper makes a plea for major improvements in the management of American colleges and universities. Six innovative solutions are offered: (1) management development, (2) human organization, (3) creative environments, (4) participative styles of management, (5) management by objectives as an operating mode, and (6) performance and appraisal…

This report is an addendum to a study whose purpose was to determine variables that contribute to the earning capacity of Illinois junior college graduates. Data were gathered from the Illinois Junior College Board and Bureau of the Budget, and from questionnaires sent to the 1968 graduates of three junior colleges in areas of high youth…

To provide information about the performance and characteristics of effective and ineffective marginal personnel in the Army, a study has been made of about 1,800 men with experience ranging up to 20 years in five military occupational specialities (MOSs): 11E, armor crewman; 63C, general vehicle repairman; 76Y, unit and organizational supply…

Papers presented at the seminar include an introduction to information processing which describes some techniques for use of the computer; the analysis of information systems and its role in the development of information systems; the effect on systems performance of building design and environmental standards; the concept of traditional printing…

This conference report is centered on that phase of the Targeted Research and Development Program in Reading literature search dealing with language development as it relates to reading. Models of language acquisition, hypotheses derived from the models, and comparisons of synthesized models are discussed. Among them are behaviorist (Skinner),…

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between differential instructional methods, attitudes, belief systems, and performance skills of student teachers trained in different ways to use multi-racial language arts materials which encourage and implement classroom discussion of racial concepts. Three groups (a total of 69 college…

This volume of instructional materials in Czech contains 145 dictation exercises. The exercises, designed for use with students at the Defense Language Institute, are used primarily to develop aural comprehension in the target language. The exercises are presented in segments allowing for repetition and with pauses for transcription or…