Participants from 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces attended the Fourth National Conference on Outdoor Education sponsored by the Outdoor Education Project and the Council on Outdoor Education and Camping of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. The conference was primarily a working conference designed to deal…

A battery of perceptual motor skills tests was administered to 107 freshman and 84 senior dental students for the purposes of determining the factor structure of the battery and studying differences between the two groups. The tests used included Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test (MRM), Placing and Turning; O'Connor Finger Dexterity; O'Connor…

Attended by high level administrators and advisors from 96 countries, both developing and industrialized, the 1968 Conference of Ministers Responsible for Social Welfare focused on implications for national development, government responsibility, the meeting of professional and nonprofessional manpower needs, and forms of international…

Introduced by discussions of the coordination of mental retardation programs, a summary of activities, and a list of the Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation for 1969, the pamphlet reports the activities of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in mental retardation. Activities described include those of the Health Services…

This final volume in the Governors' Conference on Education for the Future series contains 13 papers prepared for the conference on preparing educators to meet emerging needs. The papers are presented in six chapters: papers in the first chapter focus on the educational implications of a changing society, including needed revision of educational…

Two major areas were investigated: (1) the nature of the present curricula at the two Hospital Corps schools; and (2) the nature of the job requirements expected of newly graduated corpsmen at their first duty station. The development and construction of four instruments and the analysis and description of the present curriculum were accomplished.…

A variety of viewpoints concerning potential training programs for day care program administrators are included in this edited transcript of a 1-day conference attended by 30 education and management specialists. During their initial discussion of the role of administrators of day care programs, participants exchange diverse opinions concerning…

In 1972, new goals in teacher education and certification, based on performance or competency-based teacher certification, required the redesigning of New York state certification programs. Modifications in 1943 and 1963 had already required a fifth year of graduate study and supervised student teaching, usually as a culminating experience, for…

College theater programs should be evaluated and criticized on criteria that take into account the purposes of the programs and that have realistic bases for judging the effectiveness of instruction. The impact of college theater is based on its diversity as a training laboratory, as a part of a liberal curriculum, as a community theatre, and as a…

This monograph provides State education agencies and the general education community with some basic information pertaining to needs, present practices, and possible new approaches related to training and development for professional personnel in these agencies. The monograph is designed to provide the reader with an appreciation of the importance…

Prefacing its comments with an explanatory note concerning the reason for its organization, purpose, and procedure, the Committee utilizes half its report statistically documenting various factors in nursing practice and nursing education in Virginia. The statistics are based on a study, "Nursing and Health Care in Virginia", by Thomas…

This volume contains ten concurrent session papers from the 59th annual meeting of the American Home Economics Association. They deal with a number of topics including: the family life education center in Toledo, Ohio; the advantages and potentials of new media as educational supplements; the contributions of the home economist as a member of a…

Despite the long existence of vocational education in the school system, very little is known about the characteristics of the participants. Thus, this report presents the findings of a study of the characteristics of vocational education teachers and students. Information on the professional qualifications and teaching experiences of teachers is…

The purpose of the symposium, cosponsored by the American Association of State Psychology Boards and Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, was to focus attention on interesting and innovative approaches to Continuing Education in psychology as a profession in various parts of the country. The participants were asked to focus on…

The author sketches some of the characteristics and trends in programs for the preparation and continuing education of educational administrators. He claims that one of the most pervasive changes in the last decade or two has been toward theory-based content drawn from the social and behavioral sciences. The author sees three paradoxes in current…