The purpose of this conference was the stimulation of ideas concerning new areas of inquiry that need to be explored in the field of occupational orientations of young people. The conference featured small group discussions covering six basic topics: (1) What is the structure of the decision-making process? (2) To what extent is occupational…

This report is based on research to evaluate an 8-week summer orientation program for foreign graduate students. Based on this research and on the opinions of advising professors, it is evident that foreign students do experience a period of adjustment that varies from 1 - 2 semesters. The results indicate that foreign students profit…

Outlined and discussed in this speech are five points based on the assumption that major changes occurring in our society must be accompanied by equally significant changes in the education provided for the children growing up in this society. From the perspective of Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock," this paper points up the need to analyze what…

The McLennan Library of McGill University has created these student guide bibliographies as library orientation tools. They cover reference materials in specific subject areas in the social science and humanities, with special reference to their locations in McLennan Library. The guides are intended for the master's level student and have proved…

This report presents the rationale, methods, and results of research that was planned to develop a way of identifying relatively effective children. The report contains the conceptual bases and development of the Hypothetical Situation Questionnaire (HSQ) as the means for distinguishing effective children. The HSQ contains three subscales that…

This document, one of five volumes comprising a training program on instructional materials development designed for educational research and development personnel, gives an overview of the program and provides practice in using the materials. This volume is divided into five sections describing the purposes of this orientation manual. Section 1…

This report contains conference presentations on various year-round education programs around the nation. Other presentations discuss year-round education in the urban setting, the role of accrediting associations in year-round education, and a symposium on staff training for year-round education. (JF)

MEASUREMENT SCALES WERE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN DESCRIBING AND EVALUATING SKILLS WHICH BLIND CHILDREN DEVELOP FOR EXPLORING AND COMPREHENDING THEIR ENVIRONMENT, AND ATTAINING REASONABLE SELF-DEPENDENCE. STUDY FEASIBILITY EXCLUDED SOME OF THE BASIC LIVING SKILLS, LEAVING ONLY THOSE RELATED TO THE BLIND CHILD'S ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY. THE ITEMS USED…

The Sports Institute for Research Through Change Agent Research (SIR/CAR) provides a service whereby organizations through an audit and feedback system prognosticate and identify problems in order to avoid situations discordant with their organizational goals and objectives. This document reports the organizational crisis that faced the Windsor…

The P.E.P. Report 1969-1973 focuses on the various findings and activities of the Program Evaluation Project. This chapter of the report discusses the basic goal attainment scaling procedures. Goal attainment scaling is a methodology for developing personalized, multivariable, scaled descriptions which can be used for either therapy…

This document contains comprehensive information designed to orient the part-time faculty member to the College of the Mainland. Information included in the handbook covers the history and philosophy of the college; student and instructor rights; a description of social and economic characteristics of the students; a description of the faculty;…

The article describes specific performance criteria for the cooperating teacher and student teacher to consider as both work together to accomplish the prime objective of student teaching--skill in the teaching-learning process. (Author/MS)

Reported on a survey in which several hundred economic educators, social scientists, economists, etc. answered a succession of questionnaires narrowing down to one goal of economic education which was supported by a majority of participants. The authors maintain that more effective and more effecient economic education will result from better…

Views proxemics literature from a theoretical framework based on norms and expectations and presents a model for predicting effects of violations of proxemic expectations. (MH)