Explores the avowed goals of academic programs which have been termed Black Studies" and examines their content, methods, resources, and assessment processes. (RJ)

Traces the development of a military training course in basic electronics which could serve as a model in any educational field. (Editor/SB)

Reports data from the Purdue Consumer Education Study which provide a picture of the organization and scope of the national consumer education effort outside the schools. (Editor)

While the study, based on usable questionnaire returns from 225 counselor education programs, provides evidence of many efforts toward program differentiation, there remains a substantial lack of uniformity in preparation background of elementary school counselors graduating from preparation programs across the country. (Author)

A program description of a two-year course in environmental management at the Washington Park Horticulture Education Center, Cleveland, Ohio. (GB)

Discusses theories and innovations that have developed the content of industrial arts on the secondary school level. Program name, program administrator, and his address are given for 26 innovative programs. (GB)

The scope and sequence of industrial arts collegiate undergraduate programs are developed. (Author/GB)

Describes a continuing comprehensive care program to train medical personnel to care for ambulatory patients. (Editor/IR)

An innovative curriculum where processing of materials, energy and information form a new base for industrial arts. (Editor)

Describes a five year research project, undertaken by the U.S. Army at Guadalupe, Arizona, which used operant conditioning procedures in community development activities. The project sought "to determine environmental variables affecting individual and group behavior and, once these variables were identified, "to evolve a behavioral repertoire in…

Report on questionnaires sent to 200 leading mathematics educators in the country asking their opinion on what mathematics should be taught to low achievers in the junior high school. Results tend to confirm the existence of widely conflicting views on what mathematics is most appropriate for low achievers. (RP)

Five chapters in the "Annual Review of Psychology" are summarized to describe the development of the new research specialty--instructional psychology. It is concluded that the cognitive structure of the field is converging rather than diverging and is more conforming than radical. (EAO)