This report of the Temple City, California, differentiated staffing project contains several articles describing progress made in the first three years of operation. The major article traces the history and development of the project, outlines the financial plan and schedule through 1972, and describes several characteristics of the model: (1)…

An attempt is made to offer guidance to industrial training boards in the training and development of full-time managerial or executive personnel and departmental or technical personnel who have, or may be given, some managerial responsibilities either in their own specialist field or in general management. Areas covered include: the nature and…

This document briefly explains the relationship between the School of Information Science and the Laboratory for Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The explicit purposes of the information science laboratory are spelled out as well as the specific objectives for the 1969/70, 1970/71, and 1971/72 school years.…

This study of supervisory/middle management development programs for large department stores focuses on the determination of training objectives and the implications of these objectives for program design. To survey current practice in large department stores, a questionnaire was sent to 71 large stores which had at least 1000 employees. Thirty…

This working paper is the culmination of a number of meetings of the Task Force on the Community College with people in community colleges and their communities, as well as with people in noncollege communities, to obtain views regarding the nature of community colleges and the functions that they should perform in British Columbia. Special areas…

The manual, one in a series to assist in planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, contains two basic sets of information needed to use the Local Education Agency Model. Section 1 contains data element definitions, data collection forms and instructions, and editing and keypunching instructions. Section 2 consists of annotated…

The developmental procedures used in constructing a competency-based, student teacher/in-service program are described in this report. These procedures evolved from redesigning the St. John Fisher College Teacher Education Program to include behavioral objectives. The five steps employed to provide these objectives were: a) stating a goal; b)…

This project, during a little more than two years of operation, used an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to adapt and rewrite the findings of selected studies sponsored by the Office of Research and Development in order to broaden the audience for those findings. The objective was to promote application of the findings by making them…

This survey attempts to acquire feedback for University of Georgia graduates with regard to the impact of their college experiences on their careers and on their personal and social development. Information was obtained by means of a questionnaire. This feedback could be used by the various constituencies that make up the university in many…

This paper describes an effort to implement a cost-effectiveness program using systems analysis in an elementary school district, the Rio Linda Union School District in California. The systems design cycle employed has three phases, policy-making evaluation, and action-implementation. During the first phase, the general philosophy or mission of…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this curriculum guide is the third in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for teachers in middle schools, this monograph: (1) provides a definition of career education, its…

The main purpose of this project was to develop a blueprint for the future growth of the AASA-National Academy for School Executives. The resulting comprehensive model is displayed in outline form through the use of a conceptual framework that includes three major processes -- program planning and development, implementation, and evaluation. Each…

A network of quality schools has been suggested as a means of achieving excellence in Illinois public schools. Such a program to be effective, must be specific while at the same time addressing the broad and complex needs for education. Also, the proposed network must be built upon the mistakes of the past and must stimulate renewal at the local…

This training package of evaluative indices for process curriculum materials and educational programs is composed of ten handouts: (1) a set of materials designed for use by teachers, curriculum coordinators, school administrators, college professors, or educational consultants, intended to teach basic concepts about process education and…

This booklet is one of five related publications that delineate the program developed by the District of Columbia Public Schools for fulfilling the district's educational mission. The heart of this effort is the design and implementation of a districtwide competency-based curriculum for the prekindergarten level through grade 12, plus the…