Various defintions of creativity are reviewed and classified according to the relative emphasis that each places on the product, the process, and the personal experience of creativity. The assessments of creative products are usually unreliable because of the problem of defining what is creative. Attempts at assessing the creative process fall…

Examined are differences of opinion among educators in regard to the value of using behavioral objectives in the classroom. Noted are objections such as that cognitive and affective goals are often difficult to describe and to assess in behavioral terms. The author concludes that both advocates and critics of behavioral objectives are involved in…

A handbook for entrants to USSR higher educational institutions gives the rules for admission, the order of enrollment in preparatory divisions at higher educational institutions, programs of entrance examinations, and a list of higher educational institutions. Also included is a city-based index of higher educational institutions. (MJM)

Behavioral scientists have been slow in the development of effective procedures and in empirical validation of psychological testing instruments for selecting law enforcement personnel. This study involved 253 supervisory sergeants and field lieutenants and 2,327 uniformed patrolmen of the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Three major performance…

The phased typing program uses individualized instruction to enable each student to achieve a level of typing skill commensurate with his own motivation, ability, available time, and performance objective. For the typical student the four phases correspond in time to four semesters of typewriting instruction. Students who intend to use the…

The development of a rationale and of a tentative set of guidelines for evaluating community junior college instruction is the focus of this report. Initially discussed is the range of purposes for which instructor evaluation might be undertaken, including promotion, tenure, and improvement of instruction. The choice of evaluators is then…

This document is a draft of a design for a learning tool which is an integral part of the Georgia Educational Model for the Prepartaion of Elementary Teachers (ED 025 491). (The introduction notes that specifications for the model require that all instruction be related to teacher performance behaviors and utilize the proficiency module (PM) as…

The two-cassette tape recordings in this set contain the proceedings of a session at the 1969 meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. One of the two papers summarized the major results of a survey of the status of educational research and development in the United States in the Fiscal year 1968. The findings of the…

Two improvements in supervisory practice would improve the effectiveness of student teaching: development of a set of objectives derived from a theoretical model of instruction to allow for meaningful observation, recording, and reporting of student teacher performance, and provision of feedback to inform the student teacher of his performance in…

A study analyzed the criteria available at the time of hiring elementary teachers to determine if any of the criteria would predict teachers' ratings at the end of three years of teaching. A review of research in the area yielded 29 factors thought to be indicative of teacher success. Subjects were 159 teachers who had completed their probationary…

Rather than being viewed as a reading skill, comprehension is viewed as inferring the task of the writer or as discerning the ends and means of a discourse. Inferring the writer's task is to reason backwards from the product to the questions with which he may have started. Discerning ends and means is to view what is described, argued, or…

This report assesses and recommends criteria and methods for evaluating the performance (effectiveness and efficiency) of technical library operations and services. These criteria and methods include those identified in the state-of-the-art of library evaluation (existing criteria and methods) and those developed by adoption of criteria from the…

Building Research studies show that overheating because of excessive solar heat gains can be troublesome in buildings of lightweight construction with large areas of glazing. The work being done at the Building Research Station provides the data for calculation of peak temperatures resulting from solar heat gain. Attention is given to window size…

The term "evaluation" emerged in the 1930's to describe a broader and somewhat more pragmatic type of inquiry than had been associated with the word "measurement." Examples suggest two main lines of development: (1) An emphasis on the specification of objectives and their attainment, and (2) an emphasis on evaluation as a cooperative process…

These NFPA recommendations are phrased in terms of performance or objectives, the intent being to permit the utilization of any methods, devices, or materials which will produce the desired results. The major topics included are--(1) extinguishing systems, (2) standpipe and hose systems, (3) wetting agents, (4) fire hydrants, (5) water charges for…