This bibliography was compiled to review some of the current materials on the subject of campus/community relationships with particular emphasis on studies relating to the 9 campuses of the University of California. The detailed summaries included should be helpful to increasing numbers of campus and community planners, policymakers, and…

Some thoughts are presented on the appropriate amount of testing in innovative programs in education, the level of test difficulty, and the scoring and recording of test results. Most innovative programs require considerable testing; however, there is a danger of overtesting, which must be weighed against the desirability of obtaining information…

The U.S. Office of Education's National Diffusion Network is designed to transport and systematically promote the adoption of validated innovative programs throughout the nation. The 13 case studies in this publication are intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the state facilitator effort and accurately represent the range and diversity…

To avoid implementation problems, thought must be given to diagnosis and systematic adaptive planning for the implementation of educational innovations. (MM)

Focuses on the philosophy of Sudbury Valley School, Framingham, Massachusetts, which stresses self-motivation, individual freedom, and responsibility. (DS)

How, in a presidential election year, the political education of young people can be enormously advanced. (Author)

The author describes the operations of the Gill School of Bernardsville, New Jersey, where every student takes each course for five hours a day, five days a week, for a five week period. Any six blocks constitute a full year's work. Results indicate that concentrated learning creates greater subject understanding. (Author/JB)

The author summarizes the effects of widespread innovation and experiment in curriculum and methods of instruction and concludes that the educational process is becoming increasingly individualized. (Author/JB)

Reviews literature on instructional computing to delineate principles helpful in closing the gap between teaching and technology. Focuses on faculty development (including faculty role shift), program development (including major activities in systematic exploitation of communication technology), and institutional arrangements. (Author/JN)

Social, medical, and technological innovations are discussed, first with reference to historical examples and then with modern studies. The need for evaluating both the innovations themselves and the research processes leading to them is also discussed. Suggests needed research and explains new initiatives by AAAS in science and engineering…

Describes a methodology for determining the extent of implementation of instructional innovations. The structural equations model used to measure the interaction among teacher, curriculum, and student, is given. (RAO)

Describes a study of variance in the innovative activities of 15 Canadian community colleges and the correlation between organizational characteristics and institutional innovativeness. Innovativeness varied among institutions, and an inverse relationship existed between centralized authority and innovation. Findings regarding innovation in the…

A discussion of the many reasons why some educational innovations fail, and suggestions for bringing about success. (Author/HB)

A discussion of why new teaching methods that utilize the principles of individualized instruction are important. (HB)