Through capsule reports, seminars, and design manuals, Environmental Protection Agency has activated its industrial technology transfer program for marketing the products of federal research, development, and demonstration activities. Its purpose is to disseminate information to industry on available technology for control and treatment of air,…

Applying to air quality data, procedures are presented for site characterization, method identification, data validation, and data summarization that are being established by the Environmental Protection Agency for the National Aerometric Data Bank. Topics review screening criteria, atypical results (data outliers), data accuracy and precision,…

An examination of energy use in the United States shows that much is wasteful, and that the same material standard of living could be maintained with a lower consumption of energy. Recycling of materials, improved transportation, and more efficient heating and cooling systems are major areas of potential improvement. (BL)

The varieties of materials testing and its methods, uses, and resources for industrial arts classes are described. (MU)

The individual and social uses of recent technological applications, such as information delivery and interactive home systems, are discussed. Also explored are problems related to the harnessing of these advances to individual information needs, and policy issues generated by the new technologies. Thirteen references are cited. (Author/SW)

The dilemma inherent in formal standards results from the tension between maintaining quality control and constraining creativity. This dilemma is nowhere more apparent than in matters of method: measurement, sampling, research design, and statistical analysis. The author offers suggestions for revision of the standards to allow for specific…

Three attempts to improve the state approval process in accreditation are described, and their implications for improving the process are discussed. (JD)

Discusses three management concepts that can be used by special librarians or information management specialists to achieve excellence in information delivery: total quality management (TQM), quality information management (QIM), and the ideas in the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) "Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st…

Although black students represent 16% of the student population nationally, they comprise only 8% of the student population in gifted programs. Principals can rectify this situation by focusing on teacher supervision and evaluation, staff development, and quality control. Teachers must be held accountable for providing quality learning experiences…

Describes the Slovenian system of higher education and the country's new effort to establish an improved system. A draft plan for introducing a system of quality assurance into the relatively small existing system has been developed based on foreign experience, with attention to Slovenian national needs. Evaluation will be an integral part of the…

Provides comprehensive information about new developments in the field of educational quality evaluation in Europe. Focuses on the most important international documents adopted and signed by the European authorities responsible for higher education--the Sorbonne and the Bologna Declarations, and the Prague Communique. Analyzes follow-up…

Discusses the concepts of accountability and quality assessment in higher education. Topics include performance indicators in academic libraries, including international standards; factors affecting the reliability and validity of data, including consistency, ease versus utility, and values; and recommendations for research libraries. (LRW)

Examines attitudes of insecurity regarding the status of English language teaching as a profession. Touches on the tradition of graduates using English teaching as fall-back to writing a great novel and on English language teachers committed to high professional standards. Concludes that such standards are necessary for an international language…

Since 1987, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry has established a system of committee responsibilities for quality assurance, involving the committees for clinical affairs, academic performance, safety and therapeutics, and a council composed largely of department chairs. Additional review of procedures and records management…