The Kindergarten Music Program (KMP) is one of several instructional systems currently under development at the Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. The purpose of this article is to describe the evaluation procedure and the concomitant results of the first version of the KMP. (Author/RK)

Discusses problems and issues related to the achievement of objectives in four output categories: organizational effectiveness, professional staff effectiveness, continuing education specialist development, and institutional linkage of continuing education. (Editor)

The Continuing Education faculty at the University of Colorado School of Nursing considers the evaluation of the long range effects of their continuing education courses a major concern as well as a problem area. (Author)

Article reports on efforts to evaluate and to document behavioral changes which occur in nursing practice and on efforts to determine the effect of continuing education on patient care. (GB)

Compares the test scores on musical achievement of children in Hoboken (N.J.) with those of children from deprived and advantaged homes in cities in the Midwest in a previous study. (RJ)

The application to retarded persons of sound theory relating language development and the need to know, scientifically known as epistemic behavior, can aid the retarded individual's intellectual functioning. (Author/DB)

A questionnaire to assess teacher preparation practices in the area of mathematics education was responded to by 152 out of 180 scholarship programs for the training of teachers of mentally retarded children. (DB)

Describes a teaching device, computer-controlled, that is used in the U.S.S.R. as an introduction to the elements of piano playing. (Author/RK)