Interdisciplinary research centers provide an important part of the university's response to the shifting programmatic needs of our society. (Author)

Author discusses the U S Office of Education's purposes and rationale for supporting university-based R & D centers. (Editor/MB)

A paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, April 1972, Chicago, Illinois. (Editor)

Paper is a preliminary effort to set forth a perspective concerning the demise of the Harvard R & D Center. (MB)

The anomalous position of the special research unit and the clumsiness with which it is often dealt both by university administrations and by supporting agencies reflect resistance to change and confusion regarding this new development. (Author)

Article describes some of the experiences pertaining to the management of a highly localized research unit, specifically, the Educational Program Management Center which is located within the Faculty of Educational Development in the College of Education at Ohio State. (Author/MB)

Authors describe how deficiencies resulting from isolation have been met through the development of an organization called Grand Rapids Public Schools-Western Michigan University Center for Educational Studies. (Authors/MB)

This article describes characteristics of current research in education, examines three types of research (theoretical, practical applied, and practical action), and argues for the promotion and development of practical applied research as the type most useful to school teachers, and most qualified to bridge the gap between theory and practice.…

Reports from the nine research and development centers funded by the United States Office of Education provide a self-assessment of the centers from the standpoint of their respective goals, the methods used in pursuing these goals, estimates of their success to date, and estimates of their projected success. Discussion of organizational aspects…

The major portion of this report summarizes prior research at the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching within the framework of three domains of variables: the behavioral or directly observable variables; the personological or those inferred from tests; and those institutional variables which affect the social, technological,…

The first half of this report is a description of the funding, the concepts, the programs, and the evolution since 1955 of the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education in Austin, Texas. The second half is concerned with the program of the center which, in 1968, was reorganized to focus on two areas within the framework of…