This paper describes the structure and function of the SYS IV PLATO Curriculum Project's (PCP) computer-based management system and justifies the system design. A consideration of features most critical in the design of management systems provides the context for a discussion of specific SYS IV features, which include its ability to deliver any…

Based partly on an online policy manual developed at the University of Houston, this policy statement for the Online Database Retrieval Service (ODRS) at Murray State University, Kentucky, provides guidelines for the librarian administering the service and for librarians conducting online searches. Eleven sections cover: (1) a statement of purpose…

Provides solutions to the problems of recording the progress of individuals and providing a comprehensive report to the parent. Poses problems on microscope projection, electronic components in junior science, and innovative science projects throughout Australia. (GS)

Based on his experience in a multicampus system, the author discusses the issue of centralization, concluding that campus administrators should be given the freedom to plan, implement, allocate resources, and evaluate their programs with as little interference as possible, the central office being involved in initiation, encouragement,…

A computer-assisted system of recordkeeping for continuing education units (CEU) was developed at West Virginia University for its statewide Continuing Education Program. Emphasis is on recording of participant activities and management reports that reflect total participant efforts. Specifications are given for the system as installed and…

A discussion of computer software and courseware for second-language instruction outlines considerations for selecting software of various kinds and presents a list of selected computer programs. Suggestions are made for choosing text-specific software, non-text-specific software intended for language instruction, word processors intended for…

This manual describes the establishment and operation of a Computerphobia Reduction Program on a university campus which is directed by a licensed psychologist who trains and supervises graduate student interns to deliver three brief skills-acquisition modules. The manual describes the clinic facility, including staffing requirements; general…

The second of three units of the 4-H Outdoorsman Program introduces more advanced camping and survival techniques for 4-H members in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Backpacking, finding food in the wild, making a fire without matches, lashing techniques, axemanship, finding your way (with and without a compass), making a…

The purpose of this study was to identify the central values and the range of variability for costs associated with selecting and preparing books for microfilm preservation, filming, and maintaining quality control and adequate records. The study was based on data supplied by the libraries at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, the…

This study addressed the question of whether teachers' judgments differ according to the frequency of data collection on student performance and the type of trend. The study also investigated whether teachers' judgments, based on different types of graphs (ascending, descending, flat, or variable), vary with the frequency of data collection. A set…

This report describes the development and evaluation of a computer-assisted, student-interactive registration program that was designed for a community school in southeastern Florida which offers courses in the curricular areas of adult basic education, GED, adult high school, business and office education, home economics, industrial education,…

This booklet provides basic health and safety information for child care providers. The first three sections focus on (1) how illnesses spread, ways to reduce their spreading, health checks and daily observation of children; (2) communicating with parents; and (3) medical emergencies, fire, earthquake, weather emergencies, and other emergencies.…

This paper describes a prototype system developed for the Green Valley Area Educational Agency 14 in Iowa, which uses the Programming for Individualized Education (PIE) program and a Cluster/One Model A Nestar Micronetworking System to plan and store student records for developmentally disabled and other weighted special education students. The…

This instructor's manual accompanies a student workbook for a course in basic income tax return preparation. An introductory section contains a course schedule and lists of technical publications, textbooks, other resource materials necessary to the teaching of the course, forms required for student use during instruction, and transparencies.…

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) pertains broadly to education records, though an institution can exempt its law enforcement records from FERPA coverage. The primary purpose of this report was to examine FERPA's effect on the flow of information between institutions of higher education and law enforcement agencies. Study…