Detailed information is provided about the Air Force Instructional System Development (ISD) Model to supplement the 1979 AECT presentation made in New Orleans. Information of interest to instructional systems designers includes (1) a short overview of the Air Force ISD model, (2) an extended example which demonstrates the Air Training Command…

The paper briefly describes a project to develop a model for law-related curriculum in grades K-12. The project was based on the cooperation of community professionals in law-related areas with teachers and school personnel. An outline for achieving effective results in the community team approach includes setting up the community team, procedures…

This document is the result of a 1977-78 study by the department of educational administration, Arizona State University, to identify and field test competencies determined to be essential in four community education roles: superintendent, district coordinator, principal, and building level director. The monograph discusses the question of role…

After discussing the differences in the physical, social, and attitudinal environments of advantaged and disadvantaged children, this paper describes the educational settings and intervention practices that were designed as part of the Carolina Abecedarian Project to assist young disadvantaged children in attaining educational competence. An…

Reported is the design, development, and evaluation of a one-semester course on the principles of economics for twelfth grade students. The course is intended to develop students' capacity for economic reasoning through economic theory and empirical research. To do this, teaching materials and innovative techniques for teacher training were…

This interim report (written four weeks after the program had begun operation) of the University of Connecticut's Model Program for Improving the Education of Preservice and Inservice Teachers of Elementary, Secondary, and Exceptional Children in Metropolitan Areas (Groton and New London, Connecticut) describes the procedures to date (staffing,…

This report of the Hartford Intensive City-University Teacher Training Project (HICUT) is a projection of the 1968 program, based upon the 1967 program. Included are background information describing HICUT and its objective ("to recognize and meet the unique teaching needs of an urban community by employing the necessary supportive strength of a…

The purpose of this essay is to explain and demonstrate to educators the special strength of public television as an ally of education in general, with a view to obtaining greater understanding which will ultimately lead to more effective cooperation between public television and the educational world. Part one traces the evolution of educational…

The objective of this paper is to evaluate a model of intervention which can be easily developed and implemented in agencies that deal with multi-generational families. It is based on the realization that increases in the aged population highlight the need for supportive services to adult children. A sample of 35 adult children whose aged parents…

The University of Wisconsin-Stout Special Education Program prepares secondary teachers to teach vocational and life function skills. Incorporating vocational education, vocational rehabilitation, and special education into a single degree program, graduates facilitate the transition of handicapped individuals from school to the world of work.…

An Individualized Instructional Systems Program is a proqram that enables students to: (1) have available in writing the behavioral objectives they try to attain; (2) progress at their own individual rate while completing the required tasks, activities, and objectives of the course; (3) spend as much time as needed to complete the objectives of…

This paper discusses some of the author's experiences in two sexually homogeneous environments, a male juvenile correctional facility and a four-year womens college, from an Adlerian perspective. Although unrelated, the two populations have important similarities and differences, such as that incarcerated male juveniles and college females often…

A review of the literature of Performance Based Teacher Education (PBTE) programs indicates a void in the area of human skills teacher training. In response to this lack of relevant research, this paper presents a view of how group counseling procedures can successfully be integrated into PBTE as an approach to humanistic skills training. With…

The Institute of Library Research (ILR) is a statewide organized research unit of the University of California (UC) whose activities have been directed toward the objectives of education, research and public service. During this reporting period the Institute underwent some significant changes, including a further separation of the University-wide…

Examined in a national survey of 258 special education teacher training programs in colleges and universities were program components of federally funded competency based (DBTE) programs and federally funded noncompetency based (NCBTE) programs. Department chairpersons answered mailed questionnaires specific for either a CBTE a NCBTE program.…