Activities undertaken by the Office of Institutional Research at Northern Michigan University during the 1968-1969 fiscal year are summarized in this report. Projects that were completed include a faculty salary survey, a comparison of academic performance and persistence in college between low-achieving students who had taken an early entry…

The Report of the President forms the major portion of the 1968-1969 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM. In his report, President Fred R. Harcleroad first comments on the 3 objectives of the American College Testing (ACT) Corporation, and then goes on to discuss 9 social trends presently affecting American higher education.…

The work reported here was performed between 1 June 1967 and 31 May 1968 under Task I of the contract between Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The objective of this contract was to achieve an operational, integrated, man-machine system for manipulating information about chemical substances. The contract…

Proceedings of the third conference of the Commission on College Physics are reported. Its main concern was to consolidate the work of earlier conferences: (1) the Denver Conference, dealing with the curricula of colleges which did not offer the Ph.D. in physics, and (2) the First Ann Arbor Conference, dealing with curricular matters of schools…

The American Association of Junior Colleges sponsored "A Seminar for Great Teachers" during August 1969. The participants were divided into groups that met three times each day for nine days. This report describes the discussions of group F. The 11 members were teachers of various subjects at different colleges. All were concerned with holding the…

Approximately 125 persons from 15 states of the Southern region attended the Institute, which sought to examine the need for correctional manpower in the region, to assess the present resources for training personnel to meet these needs, and to explore ways in which these needs might be met more effectively. The institute considered the background…

One of two volumes of the report of a seminar attended by 232 vocational-technical leaders from 37 states and the District of Columbia, this document covers the general sessions and the sub-seminar on teaching disadvantaged youth. General session presentations on teacher education by Martin W. Essex, Virgil S. Lagomarcino, and William G. Loomis…

During this reporting period, the Drill-and-Practice Mathematics Program implemented a pilot version of the fixed strands curriculum. Data is presented illustrating the use of the program at the various participating schools. Adjustments were made to the Drill-and-Practice Reading Program Curriculum. Extensive recoding of the curriculum of the…

This booklet is a collection of the papers presented at a joint session of the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics during the fiftieth annual meeting of the MAA. These papers were presented under the headings of "Geometry and School Mathematics,""High School Geometry," and…

The participants at the conference were asked to define and list their functions in Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI), to state what preparation they had to equip them for these functions, to tell what preparation is needed by teachers and administrators to be involved in IPI, and to discuss problems of interaction between teacher-student,…

The primary function of Hawaii's Advisory Council on Vocational and Technical Education is to evaluate the State's total vocational education effort and to publish and distribute the results in the form of an evaluation report. After a summary of 22 recommendations, the first section of the report gives the highlights of vocational education for…

This symposium report presents the text of papers delivered at the symposium and outlines of discussions. The contents are as follows: a) "Knowledge in Education" by Sheldon H. White, Joan S. Bissell, and John Golenski; c) Comments on White-Bissell-Golenski Paper by David K. Cohen; c) General Discussion of White-Bissell-Golenski Paper and Cohen…

This document is the fourth annual report to the Governor and the Legislature by the Utah State Board of Higher Education for the 1972-73 year. Following the commissioner's report, emphasis is placed on events of the year, academic affairs, budgets and finance, planning and capital facilities, and profiles of member institutions. The section on…

The report describes the principal orientations of the International Hydrological Programme, as well as the procedures suggested for its execution. The origin and justification of the programme are presented. The objectives of the 1975 programme are stated and the contents, which include the activities, themes, application of new techniques in…

BOYPOWER '76 is an eight-year, long-range plan with emphasis on members and units, trained unit leaders, and national standard units. In the annual report to Congress of the Boy Scouts of America, charts are provided as an analysis tool for studying the progress of the Boy Scouts as it relates to BOYPOWER '76 and its monthly and final objectives.…