In 1979, a small team at the Landesinstitut Nordrhein-Westfalen Neuss, Federal Republic of Germany, started the Didactical Information Service for Mathematics in School (DID-M). They are developing a series of books containing information on and documentation for the most important mathematics topics for grades 5-10. Chosen as the first of these…

This interim document provides the results of the joint activities of the Interinstitutional Terminology Group and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training in developing a standard vocational training terminology within the European Community (EC). The document presents a selection of basic vocational training concepts in six…

Several leaders in education have concluded that the United States should have some form of national achievement testing. Such tests are proposed as part of the "America 2000" education strategy. Believing that the experience of other countries will be useful to educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens, the National Endowment for…

FIVE MAJOR TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ARE IDENTIFIED BY S.D. SIEBER--(1) UNIVERSITY BASED, (2) REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL LABORATORIES, (3) STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, (4) LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS, AND (5) PRIVATE TESTING AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS. FOUR PROBLEM AREAS RELATED TO EACH SETTING ARE DEALT WITH BY N.L.…

The booklet, part of a series which examines actual and potential contributions of psychology toward solving problems of the world's schools, contains articles written by school psychologists from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. The document was compiled in response to a need for international…

This study aimed to synthesize the scattered sources of information available on the 3-year, technically oriented Fachhochschulen type of higher education in the Federal Republic of Germany. Organized into six sections, the book starts with a review of the organization of the higher education system including the trend towards a unitary system,…

This bulletin contains materials--announcements, papers, and studies--that are concerned with youth policy issues and that focus on education and training. The first section, entitled Quidnunc, offers brief descriptions of projects of interest, reports recent appointments, and announces conferences. The second section, called Aspects, offers two…

This brief overview of the state of the art in computer education in schools in the Federal Republic of Germany covers both the extent and areas of use and research and development, and frequent comparisons are made with educational computer usage in other countries, including the United States, Japan, France, Great Britain, and Norway. The…

This bibliography was compiled to provide researchers and students with a current guide to sources on the German-speaking countries of Europe: Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland. The following subject areas are included under each country: (1) bibliographies and reference works;…

This periodical contains a collection of articles and reports concerned with education and science in Germany. Two issues are comprised in this document. Articles focus on the following: (1) Germany's scientific and technical aid to developing nations; (2) an assessment of the German Comprehensive Schools (Gesamtschule), which are designed to…

This document contains seven papers (four written in English, the rest in German) concerning research on learning, curriculum, and instruction in mathematics education. Abstracts of all seven articles are provided both in English and in German. The four English-written papers discuss the following topics: (1) perspectives for modelling teaching…

This report presents the results of a conference on furthering teacher education in language laboratory use. A review of recommendations for innovation, adopted at a previous conference (see FL 002 711) serves as background for summaries of papers on the following subjects: (1) foreign-language learning goals and consequences for methodology, (2)…

The field manual for a series of coordinated studies of the spontaneous acquisition of a second language by adult immigrant workers provides a theoretical and practical framework for the entire project and a source of information about it for other researchers. Chapters 1 and 2 describe the project's objectives and organization. Chapter 3 reviews…

This book outlines some of the current problems faced by higher education in Germany. The first chapter describes the development of higher education and the changes in this system over time, with an emphasis on the development of higher education in the two Germanys before reunification and some comments on developments since reunification.…

The Institut fur die Padagogik der Naturwissenschaften (IPN) is the research institute for science education, with a national function in the Federal Republic of Germany. The IPN consists of biology education, chemistry education, physics education, educational science, research methodology/statistics, and administration/general services…