This booklet explains some of the basic characteristics and functions of third-party consultations, a problem-solving model in which community intergroup conflicts are resolved with the assistance of a third party in a face-to-face interchange and problem-solving process. The guide, intended for use by consultants, is divided into eight sections.…

The manual is intended to provide guidelines to Washington local education agencies (LEAs) and Head Start programs on interagency agreements. Factors involved in agreements are discussed, and an example of a proposal for service coordination touches on aspects of recruitment and outreach, screening, team staffing, assessment/diagnosis,…

Six skilled typists were studied while they transcribed English text. The typists showed stable patterns of performance, but with significant individual differences among themselves. Inter-keypress latencies for two-finger digraphs (typed by two fingers on the same hand) were particularly variable among typists. Two typists showed large…

A taxonomy was devised for describing and classifying organizational characteristics that have set the pattern for the coordinating mechanisms in 41 states. The information assembled covers a period of years dating back to the beginnings of coordination in each state so that historic trends can be seen. The significant emerging trends are: (1) The…

The rationale for pupil personnel services includes the following: (1) universal education as an ideal is an American phenomenon, (2) trends relevant today are toward personal worth and development, (3) basic factors such as advanced technology and automation, recent gains in knowledge, holding power of schools, and the widening range of pupil…

This study was undertaken to answer questions about the growing movement toward interinstitutional cooperation in higher education. After a brief discussion of the recent history of and rationale behind the growth of consortia, data on the 1,017 consortia under consideration are presented. Information is included on institutional size and control,…

The success of programed movement depends, to the same degree, on the amount of time needed for identification of outside interferences and the reaction to it, as well as the degree of the adjustment of muscular tension to this interference. (Author)

Proposes, as a solution to the dichotomy between development and production, the creation of the production coordinator who helps both developer and producer to achieve management goals and improve the cost/benefit performance of the training effort. (VT)

Project characteristics are analyzed in determing the function of computer assisted instruction management. Specific and unique areas of concern are detailed. (RAO)

Twenty-four groups (mean age 6 years-20 years) of 12 subjects each undertook nine separate rotary pursuit tasks. Scores suggested four discrete clusters, ranked according to overall performance level. These clusters replicated exactly those derived from an earlier analysis of performance on three reaction time measures. (Author/CL)

Explains the process whereby the Valley of the Sun Association for the Education of Young Children developed the Early Childhood Network in Phoenix, Arizona and describes the resulting successes with increased communication among members. (DT)

Discusses ways to make possible the fuller use of home and community resources by students and teachers in schools, and ways to tie all of these resources together more closely. (Author/GB)