Testimony from a congressional oversight hearing on the Women's Bureau, a component of the U.S. Department of Labor, is presented. Concerns are the extent to which the general orientation of the administration has led to some diminution of activities of the sort the Women's Bureau has done in the past and the dismantling or reduction of the…

This paper presents the results of two studies which were performed to assess the effects of the practice of an interactive video game on spatial visualization test scores. The first study used 70 Laval University undergraduate students as subjects, while subjects for the second study were 101 seventh grade students from the area of Quebec City.…

Each public school that had students enrolled in grades 9-12 was surveyed to gather data on the extent and nature of the school dropout problem in New Mexico during the 1983-84 school year. Data on grade, sex, ethnicity, and reason for dropping out were collected. Information was obtained from all 88 public school districts and from 99% of the…

This study examined adult attitudes toward infants labeled premature. Fifty-two subjects, including infant specialists, experienced special educators, and preservice special educators, viewed a videotape of 9-month-old infants, each labeled full-term or preterm and male or female. A questionnaire administered after viewing the videotape rated each…

This study examined the effects of feedback (immediate, delayed, or no feedback) and the type of control (external or internal) on computer-assisted instruction (CAI), and also considered the influence on achievement of such factors as computer anxiety, self-concept, learning style, and gender. Subjects were 336 undergraduates, the majority of…

This report provides an overview of primary education in Norway. Discussion focuses on: (1) provisions relating to compulsory basic education and characteristics of the school system; (2) local education authority; (3) regional authority; (4) national authority; (5) organization of the schools; (6) curriculum guidelines and the model plan for…

Findings are reported resulting from a 3-year study of the impacts of academic employment-discrimination litigation on the parties and their institutions. Two nationwide surveys were conducted, one of plaintiffs and one of university counsel. Six major lawsuits against colleges and universities were investigated by interviewing the plaintiffs and…

Tabulated data are provided on the enrollment and degree awards of higher education students by their racial/ethnic groups for academic year 1984-85. Surveys were sent to 3,379 higher education institutions in the United States and its territories. Tables in this report include institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia only. The…

The interactions between computer use and access by adolescents and their computer-related opinions and values are presented in the framework of a "manifold model" of computer interactions. This model emphasizes the complexity and multidimensional nature of the system of variables in which such interaction is embedded. For this study,…

This paper makes a critical exploration into the core epistemological assumptions of mainstream television effects research and explains why the mainstream study of the cognitive impact of television on children suffers from two reductionist tendencies, i.e., television is understood by most researchers to be solely a technical medium, and most…

In April 1988, as part of an annual survey conducted at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), students were asked to assess the institutional attitudes of MATC toward women and minorities and to indicate whether they had experienced discrimination because of race, religion, sex, ethnic background, or handicap. In addition, students were asked…

The papers of this proceedings are grouped in five parts. The three papers in part 1 discuss the exposure of Italian scholars to Dewey's philosophies and include the titles (1) "John Dewey in the Evolution of Italian Education" (C. R. Wolf); (2) "Frederick Eby and the Dewey Lectures: An Essentialist Present at Educational…

The time period between the early 1920s and the early 1970s witnessed increases in high school retention rates within Ontario's publicly-supported education system. These increases are attributed both to program changes within the system and to societal factors external to that system. Retention rates increased slowly during the 1920s, as minor…

Promotion and tenure decisions in higher education are discussed and identified as no longer private affairs within departments, but subject to affirmative action guidelines and court scrutiny. Increasing numbers of discrimination complaints are forcing committee members to justify publicly decisions that were once left to their private…

The dissertation abstracts in this compilation all appeared in "Dissertation Abstracts International" in 1983. The 300 dissertations cited in the annual listing of research in the July 1984 issue of the "Journal for Research in Mathematics Education" are included, as well as 55 dissertations which were located but could not be…