Definitions, statistics, and problems of world refugees are presented in this document for high school global education classes. Although various agencies have determined different definitions of the term, the authors consider as refugees all those forced to flee their native land in order to survive. For most refugees the attraction of a higher…

This bilingual American government handbook is one in a series designed to help high school students who are literate in their native Lao, but are limited-English-proficient, in meeting their graduation requirements. The handbook is essentially a glossary. The first part, in Lao, contains major concepts in American government and definitions of…

This bilingual handbook on United States government is one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduate requirements. Major American government concepts and a glossary of important and commonly used terms are presented, first in Spanish and then in English. (CMG)

This publication contains 190 terms that relate directly and uniquely to agricultural education or that are considered to be highly important in vocational and technical education and have direct relevance to agricultural education. Intended for supervisors, teacher educators, teachers, and students in agricultural education, the publication…

This glossary offers definitions of almost 600 terms normally associated with the field of educational technology in brief and easy-to-understand form, all in Spanish (a Portugese version exists). The terms are organized into six major areas: learning, communications, instructional design, evaluation, media production, and systems theory. (Author)

This study was an attempt to determine the nature of the pausing phenomena in oral reading, and whether these phenomena are possible overt features of the verbal processing entailed in reading orally, and also in reading silently, by relating them to the silent and oral reading comprehension abilities of the subjects. (Author)

Author attempted to outline a concept of logic that involves standards of correct reasoning as well as some idea of how these might be carried out in a classroom. (Author/RK)

Results of a student questionnaire survey on cheating at two colleges in Maryland and Nebraska are reported. Findings show that there is a need for definition of what constitutes cheating and that the degree of overt attention to cheating does not indicate the severity of the problem. Recommendations are made for faculty involvement in solutions.…

Author presented a brief summary of what he saw when looking back, around, and about the fields of comparative and international education, and what those observations suggested to him about the future as a field and Society. (Author/RK)

Outlines the problems requiring restructuring of programs to prepare two new types of primary care physicians: a family physician who is predominantly an ambulatory care specialist and a primary care internist, pediatrician, or obstetrician who cares for most diseases in office and hospital. (JT)

Seven domains upon which public policy is said to have an impact are differentiated here. A major intention of the paper is to distinguish between science and trans-science and the validity of including non-objective phenomena as an input into public policy evaluation and formation. (Author/AM)

Author, who was the head of a primary school, discussed the problems in operating small primary schools as well as their many important characteristics and potentialities. (RK)

Members of five "mental illness gatekeeper" professions evaluated 190 behavioral items for the mental illness implications of the behavior described in each item. Professional groups differed significantly in their general readiness to "see" mental illness in the total pool of items, and in the ways they defined mental illness in behavioral terms.…

Describes a demonstration designed to teach chemistry definitions. Important chemical terms which specifically related to the demonstration were defined on handouts and distributed to the students for reference during the demonstration. (MLH)