Two experiments investigated the acquisition of course material under conditions of repeated testing. In Experiment I, with limited study intervals, acquisition increased over trials of study followed by testing. In addition, adjunct information about the content of the test item pool also increased performance. In Experiment II, with student…

This progress report, presented at the UNESCO General Conference seventeenth session, outlines the main activities undertaken in the establishment of an international university since the sixteenth session of the General Conference. A listing of eleven activities undertaken is presented in addition to the decision adopted by the Executive Board.…

This document presents the proceedings of the 1971 Conference of Higher Education Institutional Research and Planning, sponsored by the State of Maine Higher Education Facilities Commission. The text of the main address and conference program are presented. Results of a follow-up questionnaire and a list of conference attendants are also included.…

This document presents the annual report for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for 1971-72. Included in the report are a listing of the Board of Trustees; a listing of the officers and staff of the Foundation; descriptions of the First Year Fellowship Program, the Dissertation Fellowships, the Internship Programs, the Martin Luther…

The main results of the 1960 Montreal Conference on Adult Education, an analysis of the evolution of adult education during this period, and extensions and changes required in the future are presented. UNESCO's role in the development of adult education through international cooperation is discussed. (NF)

The conference proceedings include 22 papers or workshop session summaries from the conference on the gifted. Some of the topics discussed are educational evaluation of the social worth of programs, economic accountability, the role of parent organizations, communicating with the state legislature, encouraging creativity in learning, describing…

This document presents a review of the activities of the Council of Ontario Universities during academic year 1970-71. Topics discussed in the booklets include information systems, funding formula for the universities, university relations with government, university expansion, graduate education development, engineering education development,…

The material published here was presented at an open meeting of the International Federation for Documentation study committee, Information for Industry (FID/II) during the ISLCI International Conference on Information Science on September 3, 1971. (The full proceedings in two volumes are available as ED 065139 and ED 065140.) Contained herein are…

This document presents the working papers of nine educators participating in the Gresham Teacher Challenge Conference conducted by NEPTE (New England Program for Teacher Education) in January 1972. The papers concern the following areas: intellectual and behavioral growth of teachers, the role of Congress and federal legislation in determining the…

This document summarizes and presents in edited form the proceedings of the 1972 ICET (International Council on Education for Teaching) World Assembly. The proceedings were based on the theme "Challenge and Innovation in Teacher Education." Speakers and participants dealt with the variety of problems, pressures, and changes faced by teacher…

Contained in this catalog is a complete listing of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports issued in the AP and APTD series and of selected reports in the EPA-R series. The AP group provides information of general interest in the field of air pollution control and is made available to the public through the Government Printing Office. The…

The definition, structures, utilities, stimulus-response differences, and portrayals of responsive evaluation are presented. An educational evaluation is said to be a "responsive evaluation" if it orients more directly to program activities than to program intents, if it responds to audience requirements for information, and if the different…

The area investigated in the present study is the comparison of the permutation t-test with Student's t-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test. The comparison was made for small samples for three distributions, including a normal distribution, a uniform distribution, and a skewed distribution. The properties of each test compared were the probability of…

The papers included here are based on a 1971 symposium held at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association in San Francisco. The first three papers report the results of research carried out over the last few years at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning. Levin's paper focuses on the effectiveness of…

The conference reports contain summaries of five general sessions and five appended papers, all of which focus on the need and implementation of captioned television for the aurally handicapped. The keynote address states that approximately 10% of the population has hearing problems, indicating that there is a large minority group involved. The…