This study has a two-fold purpose: (1) to examine career patterns of music faculty in institutions accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), and (2) to determine how these faculty perceive the importance of selected determinants of job choice as they to mobility. (Author)

Describes the Oregon Psychologists' Professional Development Project after one year of operation. (GB)

Discusses the ways to utilize existing continuing education resources for psychologists and ways to develop cooperative programs for resource development. (GB)

Describes a project called Subregional Approach to Improved Nursing Care, the central focus of which is to provide better use of human resources for improvement of patient care. (GB)

Author attempted to relate research in the area of musical studies with Leon Kamin's research with animals. The experiment with human subjects set out to measure the presentation of auditory stimuli without punishment as an indication of memorization processes. (RK)

The objectives of the study were to determine (1) whether contingent music listening would significantly increase correct responses to mathematical problems compared to other activities and reinforcers, and (2) whether there are significant differences between the reinforcing effects of two types of music listening activities. (Author)

This study was undertaken in order to sensitize music educators about possible directions for continued improvement of undergraduate music education programs by concentrating on the relationships between curriculum development and teacher education. (Author)

The first rural settlement school in the United States was the Hindman Settlement School, established in 1902 in the county seat of Knott County, Kentucky. It set the pattern upon which many other schools chartered their development and helped the continuation of the music culture of the mountain people. (Author/RK)

Article describes three interrelated factors that appear to be imperative if a match is to exist between curriculum design and research methodology. (Author/RK)

Two theoretical models of visual attention and contingent learning were presented to provide a framework for the consideration of how observed individual differences in infant behavior may interact with nonsocial stimuli and caretaker-mediated stimuli to influence the individual's development of patterns of visual attention and contingency…

This paper analyzes common practice and the difficulties children encounter and outlines an entre to mathematics learning which may make the child's task easier. (Author)

Research studies were conducted to determine the effectiveness of multisensory learning systems in teaching basic concepts to two and five-year-old children. (Author/RK)

The present paper is concerned particularly with the processes underlying the perception of the upright, that is, an object in its usual, or familiar, position in space. (Author/RK)