Papers are presented from the 1975 Society for Research into Higher Education European Symposium on Interdisciplinary (ID) Courses in European Education. Section one of the symposium on "philosophy and background" consists of an introduction by Professor Berger and discussion. Section two on "some ID courses" consists of the…

The Alabama Student Assistance Program, a state/federal cooperative aid program to provide financial assistance to residents of the State of Alabama for undergraduate postsecondary education at institutions within the State of Alabama, is described in this annual report for the 1977-78 academic year. A total of 15,710 applications for aid were…

Attention focused on the recruitment and retention of Indian students, career mobility, continuing education, and unique aspects of nursing practice in tribal areas. Location of schools away from home environments, course requirements for which students have had inadequate preparation, feelings of isolation, and financial troubles tend to hamper…

The booklet contains transcripts of ten presentations given at a workshop on consumer economics in Michigan. The main objective of the workshop was to explore ways of improving the training of undergraduate and graduate education majors and the inservice training of secondary and middle school teachers in the areas of personal and family finance.…

Seventeen articles used to convey the South Carolina advisory council's 1977-78 evaluation of vocational and technical education in South Carolina are presented. Articles included are "The Girl Stared"; "A Solution to Discipline--Education's Number One Problem"; "A Vocational Education Success Story"; "TEC…

A meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization confirmed that teachers and research workers have been faced with the problem of diversification of methods and techniques in language teaching and with the necessity of adapting approaches to the specific needs of the many categories of learners. A new approach in…

Student and faculty perceptions of teaching styles, learning styles, and the use of various educational environments were compared at a small, highly selective liberal arts college. Student and faculty perceptions of the subject matter characteristics of academic departments and students' orientations to the subject matter of the departments were…

Seven prepared papers, with questions from the audience and answers by participants make up the proceedings of this conference on minimum competency testing. A number of conceptual and technical problems were raised, as well as questions about the effects of minimum competency testing on the curriculum and the psychological effects of the program…

A model program for freshman women in engineering has been developed at Purdue University. The program focuses on an experimental course that provides beginning engineering women and men with hands-on laboratory experiences, discussions of contemporary societal problems including environment, energy and productivity by various role model…

The nationwide program of financial aid for students enrolled in medicine and osteopathy, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is evaluated. The foundation made scholarship and loan funds available to students with minority backgrounds, to women students, and to students from rural areas. The evaluation study sought to determine…

Development of environmentally knowledgeable, concerned future citizens is the ultimate goal of the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a program to accomplish needed conservation work on public lands while providing gainful employment for males and females aged 15 to 18. Selected work projects contribute to the resource and to the environmental…

An ongoing series of experiments has extended Rose's information processing approach to job performance assessment. Each study investigated cognitive tasks from the literature on memory, psycholinquistics, and visual information processing, for potential inclusion in the test battery. Each task was then evaluated against three criterion areas: (1)…

Two federal educational programs are covered in this annual report for FY 1969: Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Title III of the National Defense Education Act. The first report describes how the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and…

Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA Title II) provides direct federal assistance for the acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials. It is a state plan program: the state plan is the contract/agreement which the U.S. Office of Education negotiates with a state or eligible…

A summary of proceedings is presented from an international conference which focused on the needs and problems of primary health care. The report describes background of the conference, attendance, a summary of discussions, and recommendations. Sponsored by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, the conference was attended by delegations from…