Article described a new organization, Agency for Instructional Television, explored the quality and cost of its programs, and its organization, offering it as a model for the production of educational materials, a model that produced better materials at lower costs. (Editor/RK)

An explanation is presented of the efforts performed by the Tennessee Technological University in conducting follow-up studies of its teacher education program graduates. A history of follow-up studies dating from 1964 is given, and a list is provided of special studies undertaken to assist in program development and redesign and to meet the…

Intended for administrators and students of literacy and education who are not necessarily professional scholars or researchers, this book interprets a large amount of literature about literacy. The first section of the book provides information about the following: factors in the achievement of literacy; planning a literacy program; organization…

The plan reviews work on projects initiated by the Office of Education and transferred to the National Institute of Education (NIE) and offers a status report on major program areas. It discusses some of the questions in career education, including the problems it addresses and efforts to date. Proposed program goals are to improve knowledge of…

This paper, one of a series of four initial reports, discusses the rationale for each proposed National Institute of Education (NIE) program. It considers the educational goals to be achieved, variables that can be manipulated to reach the goals, the current practice and status of R&D on the variables, new R&D programs that might lead to…

This report provides an overview of the federally-funded early childhood research activities of fiscal year 1975. In order to assess the directions in which federal research programs are moving, ongoing research projects are analyzed both within individual agencies and within the federal government as a whole. The first chapter reviews the…

This report describes and evaluates a training program for educational researchers conducted prior to and following the 1969 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The report's description of each of the program's 12 specific training sessions, which served a total of 542 educational researchers, includes the following…

This catalog contains descriptions of the programs funded by governor's grant funds during fiscal 1980. (The governor's grants are funds provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 for use at the state level by the state governors.) It is divided into four parts. Part 1, which identifies programs funded under the coordination…