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Article provided background information on the Chinese educational system and the rapid changes it has undergone in a much-disrupted period. (Editor/RK)

Procedures were developed to assess specified conditions for "student-structured learning in science" in the areas of (1) course materials, (2) implementation of course materials, (3) physical facilities, and (4) teacher behavior. A measurement instrument was developed and experimental procedures were pilot-tested on two college physics classes (nine students per class). One class was a student-structured laboratory course for prospective elementary school teachers. A comparison class was taking the lecture and laboratory part of a general education physics class. Students in the study were pre- and posttested. The applications of the procedures for the assessment appeared feasible and of value. (Author/EB)

Proceeding on the assumption that the newspaper can be effectively used to teach nearly every aspect of the English curriculum, this teaching guide presents concepts in literature, language, grammar, and composition and suggests procedures for adapting the relevancy and contemporaneousness of the daily newspaper to secondary school English instruction. Examples from human interest stories, sports pages, advertising, and cartoons of "The Chicago Sun-Times" illustrate ways in which the short story, the novel, the essay, poetry, symbolism, satire, and allusion can be taught. Such facets of language study as phonology and morphology, language changes, current usage, and propaganda are also treated. Editorial cartoons and writing models are discussed, and exercises in letter writing, ad writing, editorial writing, and refinement of writing are proposed. Problems of grammar, usage, punctuation, and capitalization are also briefly noted. (JB)

Describes the difficulties which Chinese students have in writing English and presents excerpts from student compositions to illustrate stylistic and thematic characteristics of student writing at the University of Hong Kong. (FB)

Early Chinese printer's colophons are rich in information useful to researchers tracing the development of Chinese printing in its early stages. Regional and chronological patterns exhibited by 30 sample colophons from the Sung dynasty period are described and their implications discussed. (12 references) (Author/KE)

Presents the open'' classroom: its development and its character. (RK)

The present research is concerned with preference for visual (polygon) complexity versus simplicity in relation to national membership, using adult subjects from five nations (cultures) four groups of which were temporarily resident in the U.S.A. (Author)