Mutual understanding of both similarities and differences between Americans and host nation counterparts is a key to effective use of American advisors abroad. When Americans and their hosts know what to expect of each other, the interpersonal competence, consulting skill, and technical knowledge of American consultants can be brought to bear more…

A questionnaire was sent to member states of the Council for Cultural Co-operation to gather data on provision by universities of further education (updating of knowledge once acquired) and of continued education (opportunities to enlarge and broaden a professional qualification). A poor response showed that West European States have not yet…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this study collected data from 2,007 Indian students (from 8 to 20 years of age) who attended public, mission, and Bureau of Indian Affairs' schools from Alaska to North Carolina using self-report questionnaires dealing with the Indian self-concept. The purpose of…

The study suggested (1) that Eskimos possess unusual cognitive strengths which are rarely recognized and (2) that these talents may reflect high intellectual abilities in such areas as perceptual analysis and image memory. It was noted that the performances of Eskimos on measures of these cognitive abilities approximate and in some instances…

Differentiation of the effects of cultural deprivation and achievement characteristics as they relate to auditory comprehension and by implication to potential reading ability was investigated. A total of 80 eighth-grade students were classified into four experimental groups: deprived-achievers, deprived-nonachievers, nondeprived-achievers, and…

This paper examines community programs sponsored by institutions of higher education; it attempts to define such programs, describe their elements, clarify inherent problems in their development and execution, and offer some observations on the advantages and disadvantages of the various types. Emphasis is on community service, social reform,…

Six hundred and sixteen CVC stimulus syllables beginning with /l/ and /r/ were presented by tape recording to six Japanese foreign students at Indiana University. Analysis of variance showed the effect of the final consonant variable on the identification of initial /l/ and /r/ was significant at the .05 level; the effect of the CV interaction was…

Papers prepared for this 1968 training conference for members of the Illinois Migrant Council dealt with the migrant dilemma of poverty and powerlessness; the role of paraprofessionals in migrant education; guidelines for counseling and psychological testing; techniques for teaching English pronunciation, vocabulary, and structure (English as a…

The problems of control within complex organizations are a direct result of the need to coordinate activities that have been broken down into subunits so that they can be performed by a group of employees. In such organizations, authority is justified on a "rational-legal" basis, and the general pattern of control is through bureaucratic rules. As…

Several determinants of the growth of bureaucracy in schools have been isolated. Proliferation of bureaucratic rules is directly related to the size of the school, but inversely related to socioeconomic status of the students. Also, as the proportion of female teachers in a department rises, the number of rules increases, even though more female…

An introduction and description of conference purposes precede a list of participants who presented technical papers and demonstrations along with their titles and institutions. Accounts are given of the following types of aids described and demonstrated: frequency transposition for hearing aids, tactual aids, and visual speech aids. Conclusions…

This paper examines the relationship of educational goals to some fundamental beliefs. Four research findings judged as well-substantiated but not yet having full effect on educational thinking were considered: (1) The breadth and magnitude of human capacities and resources far exceed present levels of actualization within persons or societies;…

Forty-two brain injured boys and 42 non brain injured boys (aged 11-6 to 12-6) were tested to determine the effects of increasing amounts of visual and auditory distraction on reading performance. The Stanford Achievement Reading Comprehension Test was administered with three degrees of distraction. The visual distraction consisted of either very…

The primary research emphasis of School to College: Opportunities for Post Secondary Education (SCOPE) is to analyze and report the interrelationships of yearly data in such ways as to help answer questions about why different students behave and believe as they do, and how these actions and attitudes influence the decision-making process. For…

The results of Osgood's Semantic Differential Scale, administered to 81 teachers, revealed that teachers saw themselves as "fair, alert, active, good" and, above all, "clean." The fact that these teachers were inclined to see Mexican American, black, and Caucasian students in much the same light (making only minor…