This report is a follow-up to the report presented by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics to the California State Curriculum Commission in 1962. Recommendations are made for continued studies, experiments, and evaluations by the State Department of Education in the areas of mathematics teaching and the in-service education of teachers. Special…

To determine what is meant by and what was desired in a graduate program of higher education, 275 questionnaires were sent to faculty members teaching courses in higher education at different types of institutions. Questions involved: (1) the areas of study that could be included in the field of higher education; (2) program elements that were or…

A proposed plan for environmental education for the State of Oregon, aimed at coordinating existing environmental education programs and implementing new ones, is contained in this document. Five areas of particular concern are emphasized. These include: Program and Curriculum Development, Teacher Training, Educational Facilities, Community…

This booklet, 1 of 34 in a series on childhood education prepared by the American Institutes for Research for the 1970 White House Conference on Children, describes the Bilingual Early Childhood Program being carried out in the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, where more than half of the population of 670,000 is of…

The reading resource teacher program established in the Madison, Wisconsin, Public Schools is described. Volunteer classroom teachers were given 20 hours of special training in reading and one-half day a week released time to assist their principals in reading curriculum development. Such consideration as cost, teacher-ability differences, staff…

Intended to serve as a manual for the developmental and evaluative activities of Project ABLE, this report presents the management and evaluation plan for instructional system development. Major emphasis of the plan is the formation of evaluative procedures drawing on student performance data as the primary source of feedback. To insure continuous…

Reported is progress on an experimental curriculum development program by four liberal arts colleges (Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown and Spelman) directed at the development of a one-year course in general science for non-science majors. The current version of the course and laboratory materials has been tried out with 2,000 students on a…

As a part of the Institute for Services to Education's (ISE) continuing effort to revise the curriculum and pedagogy of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP), the English staff of ISE brought reading specialists from the consortia schools together during the 1972 summer conference to examine the relationship of reading to TCCP. An…

The decision making process of 16 superintendents in choosing among alternative instructional programs for special education students was studied. The additive and linear additive composition models were investigated for consistency with the decision process of the superintendents. Although the results support the existence of both models, the…

The IMPACTE Project (Indian and Metis Project for Careers Through Teacher Education), initiated in August 1971, aimed to: (1) train Native teachers within the framework of the regular certification program at the Faculty of Education, Brandon University (Manitoba, Canada) and (2) provide a new "career ladder" for Indian and Metis people. Of the 53…

In this speech, the author discusses the task of curriculum design in counselor education. He focuses on several component parts of this difficult task, including developing a theory of curriculum, defining counseling--its goals and outcomes, and explaining counselor characteristics. Only when these more general questions have been answered in a…

This is one of a series of reports by technical consulting groups that are advisory to the Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education. The primary purpose of these reports is to provide the commission with information relevant to its task of developing plans for the future of Montana postsecondary education. The technical group was required:…

Producing a viable graduate program in curriculum requires identification of the audience for the program and determining new areas for professional participation. The program must be flexible enough to meet the individual needs of its participants and must make them capable not only of coping with change but also of using various methodologies to…

This document presents a progress report of the Extended University of the University of California. The Extended University exists to test and gain experience with modified approaches to higher education. It offers degree programs to those who are qualified to engage in university studies, but who are now effectively denied access because of work…

This is the third collection of year-end reports selected by the Institute for Services to Education (ISE) from the reports prepared by the teachers and counselors of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP). The present document, covering the year 1969-70, comprises a selection of entire reports. The reports are addressed simultaneously to…