Provides a conceptual framework and the organizational content for describing and understanding the nature and role of information systems in higher educational decisionmaking. Sections covered include: university processes, core data bases, analytical tools, general information, and evaluation processes. (Author/PG)

This paper traces the impacts of technology on education. The point is made that at present a management syndrome pervades education planning at all levels. After a review of the current literature, the paper finds that industry-style efficiency may be more costly than beneficial to education. (Editor/PG)

Describes a project at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, to illustrate the conflicts of doing research on social problems in a university setting. It was concluded that doing research on social problems affects the conduct of science as it relates to control and self-determination over research. (Editor/PG)

Faculty development must give serious attention to the impact of change on the faculty member himself and on his institution. Organizational and personal development thus become essential to faculty development. (Editor/PG)

Many Carnegie Commission publications and Christopher Jencks' book "Inequality" concern themselves with the relationship between educational opportunity and socioeconomic status. Though they draw different conclusions, both urge higher education to confront the question of whether academic degrees should certify competence or simply summarize…

The new technologies are being forced within the old organizational structures in education, but those structures cannot accommodate the sophisticated systems needed to realize present goals. Substantial changes in organization are demanded which promote a stronger integrity in instructional systems and permit personnel growth by the accretion of…

The agencies surveyed influence faculty to improve their instruction through workshops, seminars, courses, newsletters, other publications, and individual consultations. Unfortunately, the agencies view their role as service-oriented and take a passive approach to instructional improvement. (Editor/PG)

Defines a competence-based curriculum and discusses the compatibility of a competence-based curriculum with the goals of liberal education. (Editor/PG)

Describes a self-instructional curriculum design and development course, based on a process model for individualizing instruction, suitedto the complex subject matter of higher education. The course is designed to train educational research and development personnel, teachers, administrators, and training specialists in the design of instructional…

This study investigated the relationship between number of test attempts and review exam performance by undergraduates taking personalized introductory courses. Correlation analyses revealed no significant negative, and one significant positive relationship. Students who repeat quizzes are acquiring as much or more content than nonrepeaters.…

Students perform better when they can earn points toward options such as the opportunity to drop low scores, be excused from the final examination, and turn in work for extra credit. It is concluded that events such as these should not be ignored and that they should be considered seriously whenever designing a course. (Editor)

Presents a few pages from a teaching journal which attempts to provide a sort of guidebook to the integration of personal and social consciousness and action on the university level. (Author/PG)

From this data it would appear that teacher ratings are only partly due to individual differences in teaching abilities but also vary with posi tion within the social structure of the university. Some of the conflicting implications of the research findings for university policy are considered. (Editor/PG)

Administrators wishing to stimulate research productivity should try to lure the most creative researchers but should also put emphasis on libraries and information retrieval services, and funds to attend professional meetings. (Editor)

Independent learning and teaching is an educational system in which the learner is autonomous, and separated from his teacher by space and time, so that communication is by print, electronic, or other nonhuman medium. (Author)