This report was prepared for the specialist who, well acquainted with the concepts and statistics of educational measurement, needs technical information about the Admissions Testing Program of the College Entrance Examination Board. It brings together the findings of a considerable number of studies of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the…

Selected aspects of the educational process, from infancy through college, are examined in a series of interviews broadcast in the weekly National Public Radio series, "Options in Education." Child psychologist Burton White discusses his book, "The First Three Years of Life", which deals with the significance of early…

A survey of chief liberal arts academic officers in U.S. colleges and universities gathered information on support to faculty for teaching and research, basic teaching conditions, tenure decisions, and merit salary increases and compared it with institutional characteristics. Findings suggest liberal arts are in poor health on American campuses.…

A review of Norwegian research on higher education looks at efforts in the areas of teaching and learning, policy and policy formation, lifelong and nontraditional education, governance and institutional administration, the education-work relationship, resource scarcity, improving statistical information, international cooperation, women's…

A review of Czechoslovakian research on higher education includes the areas of teaching and learning, policy and policy formation, lifelong and nontraditional education, governance and institutional administration, the education-work relationship, resource scarcity, improving statistical information, international cooperation, women's education,…

A review of Polish research on higher education considers the areas of teaching and learning, policy and policy formation, lifelong and nontraditional education, governance and institutional administration, the education-work relationship, resource scarcity, improving statistical information, international cooperation, women's education, and…

Proprietary and career schools have long provided postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) as private, for-profit institutions. In recent years, they have been joined at the secondary level by charter schools providing CTE. These issues affect proprietary, career, and charter schools as providers of secondary or postsecondary CTE: the…

This study examined the theories and beliefs about learning, teaching, and curriculum held by the course developers of an undergraduate educational technology course to determine whether their espoused beliefs were evident in actual classroom practice. The curriculum represented a radical change in a course designed to provide education students…

The inability of higher education institutions to self-regulate "big time" college sports has focused attention on issues such as academic integrity, gender equity in sports offerings, and students' academic progress towards degrees, and has resulted in increased oversight by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on this…

This booklet outlines what students must know and be able to do to succeed in entry-level university courses. The standards presented in the booklet were designed to create a new way to view college preparation. The standards--known as the knowledge and skills for university success (KSUS) standards--were developed from a 2-year study in which…

This essay examines the ways in which anthropology, as a discipline, currently reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. It argues that feminist anthropology since the 1970s has become an important subdiscipline, primarily within cultural anthropology, but also with a growing impact on…

This essay examines the ways in which education, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. It explains that foundational studies by feminist scholars have examined sexual differences in identity and ways of knowing, and have challenged the arrogation of feminine experience and viewpoints to generalizations of male…

The continued interest in the development and improvement of general education programs in the colleges and universities has prompted the Office of Education to publish this bibliography for the period 1949-1953. In compiling this bibliography on general education an attempt has been made to include only articles and materials: (1) reporting…

Considers criticisms of Japanese higher education focusing on weak links between curricula and societal/professional needs. Analyzes social and policy developments in the early 1990s as they relate to system design, governance and financing, access/admission, teaching and research, relationship of education to careers, and graduate study.…

Contends that college students consider job training to be the primary purpose of education. College educators must be proactive in facilitating student understanding of the purpose of higher education, particularly in the liberal arts core curriculum, which provides the opportunity for students to explore knowledge outside their major and to…