This publication of the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences contains the final report of activities of the Commission during the years 1963-1972. The Commission was established to narrow the gap between current biological research and undergraduate biology teaching. In keeping with this objective, the report is divided…

These proceedings reflect the three-fold purpose of the conference which was to: (1) determine the role and mission of Tennessee Community/Junior Colleges; (2) utilize newer and better ways of determining student achievement and awarding college credit; and (3) learn what the new student is like. Each of the three papers focused on one of these…

Activities, programs, and recommendations emanating from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment are reviewed in this report in light of their relationship to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Detailed accounts of the implications of the Conference for UNESCO's activities as a whole were…

Nonadditive analogues of what is considered to be the essential mathematics of additive measurement are presented. The scope of this paper is defined when measurement theories are reformulated in such a way to assign transformations of numbers to transformations of natural objects. This paper is limited to theories of measurement in which…

A technique for testing the hypothesis that a hierarchical sequence of partitions constructed by the max method could have been obtained solely on the basis of "noise" is discussed. The evaluation procedure imvolves comparing a rank-order goodness-of-fit measure to the tabled percentiles obtained from an approximate cumulative permutation…

A selection of papers originally presented at six annual United Kindgom Reading Association reading conferences, 1964 to 1969, are collected in this volume. The papers selected are of topical or perennial interest and favor practice rather than theory. They are broadly grouped under four headings: theory and practice, media and materials, remedial…

This discussion, presented at the Regent's Trustees' Conference, February 1973, reviews the limits of accountability in higher education. Managerial efficiency is suggested to assist in eliminating educational and financial waste. This, however, is the secondary concept emphasized. The primary emphasis indicates the legitimacy of the claims that a…

The Third Cranfield Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems was held on 20-23 July 1971 in Cranfield, England. The report describes a number of the key papers presented at this conference. (Author)

This book is the second of a series of conference proceedings on problems of medical education held by the Fogarty International Center. The participants discussed the value of research in medical education, research as a teaching tool, research and the teaching of community medicine, concepts of medical education, the role of the school of…

In 1968, a project sponsored by the Caldwell, Idaho School District 132 and funded under an ESEA Title III grant, resulted in a 224-page sourcebook for teachers, "Idaho, An Outdoor Classroom" (ED 046 963). A current project, summarized in this final report, has attempted (1) to evaluate "Idaho, An Outdoor Classroom" and find…

The 1972 fiscal year activities of the Federal Library Committee (FLC) are reported upon under General and Work Group categories. Community Relationships and the Federal Library Advisory Service are discussed as General facets. The Work Groups reported upon are: Automation, Coordinated Collection Development, Education, Interlibrary Loan, Physical…

In May, 1970, a group of educators, scientists, industrial and government representatives, and scientific manpower specialists met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the current employment situation for scientists and engineers, and to assess its future implications, particularly its effect on graduate education. This book is…

The purpose of this meeting of an invited group of concerned citizens was to focus attention on the interrelation of all types of libraries in British Columbia. It was intended to involve those who pay for library service in a discussion of its potential to meet the demands of the coming generation. This record, which is not intended to be a…

This is the report of a conference sponsored by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. The conference discussed the findings of the Centre's 2-year program which attempted to demonstrate how the resource management of universities may be improved through better decisionmaking in the realms of finance, information, human flows, the use…

The purpose of the Institute was to establish a dialogue between the people concerned with the fate of the publishing industry and those directly involved in it. Papers by eleven Canadians prominent in publishing and literature are presented to an audience made up of librarians, booksellers, government officials, educators, publishers and…