This guideline bulletin was prepared to assist local schools in planning and implementing preschool programs for educationally deprived children. Program objectives and organization (including topics such as pupils, personnel, evaluation, parental involvement, and records) are included. The general characteristics of 4- and 5-year-olds and the…

Reported is a project designed to use the computer as the basis for a laboratory approach to the presentation of mathematics. Classroom instruction was augmented by student experiments in devising and testing mathematical algorithms on the computer. Research procedures for grades 6 through 12 focused on the following kinds of problems: (1)…

A national seminar on young farmer education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, August 7-11, 1967, was attended by 95 teacher educators, state supervisors, vocational agriculture teachers, and invited guests from 38 states and the District of Columbia. Some major seminar conclusions were: (1) There is an increasing need for education of young…

This report of a 2-week workshop contains four papers presented by their authors, eight business presentations, and 1 group and 24 individual projects developed by the workshop participants. The papers pertain to project evaluation, project information, project training and distributive programs. The business presentations relate to new products,…

The lack of tested models of the instructional process is the prime hindrance to significant management science in educational research. The nature of education, with long timelags between ultimate performance and present activity, makes the modeling most difficult. This paper reports on one of several efforts which have been made to develop…

In a report of seminar proceedings, papers are presented on the formation, aims, structure, and organizational relationships of community youth clubs in rural areas of Victoria, Australia; and on the origins, structure, staffing, and overall characteristics and problems of Australian rural youth clubs. An interim group report also defines the…

Universities and colleges having extension programs in 1964 were surveyed. A need for health and safety education through courses, institutes, workshops and non-credit continuing education was found. Other findings included the following: (1) an increase in the supply of professionally prepared teachers of health and safety education is essential…

Educational programs, regarded as inputs, may be developed within a procedural framework to achieve outputs of desired change and improvement. Eight criteria for assessing plans and strategies are relevance, legality, congruence, legitimacy, compatibility, balance, practicability, and cost/effectiveness. (JK)

A 113-item questionnaire completed by 233 county agricultural extension agents supplied data for a study of educational interests in competency areas of--understanding social systems, program planning and development, understanding human development, extension organization and administration, the educational process, communications, effective…

Complete texts of presentations and discussions at a 1975 UNESCO symposium on information systems in ongoing scientific and technical research are included in this volume. Forty-five papers were presented in four sessions: (1) ongoing research information in the service of science and science policy; (2) problems in developing and operating…

Computerized information systems are often installed to reduce costs of: (1) system maintenance by requiring fewer man-hours, (2) system enhancement by requiring less manpower, (3) mechanical efficiency by doing more per clock-hour of time, (4) personnel by substituting machine expenditures, (5) supplies and support services by using microforms or…

Both linking agents and training consultants can help school systems solve some difficult problems: how to learn about current research and successful programs, and how to adapt and implement promisisng programs. After a successful initial experience obtaining technical assistance from the Network of Innovative Schools, Inc., the Chelsea Public…

A large Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) program, covering all introductory college mathematics, was established at the University of Arizona primarily because of favorable student attitude and cost effectiveness data. However, a change in evaluation questionnaire items and analysis led to an apparent change in student attitude results.…

The importance of fiscal management and its reflection in the administrative program (placement of emphasis, priorities in long range planning, and activities that need developing) is reviewed in this report. Guidelines are provided for (1) cost analysis in education budgets; (2) purposes of budgets; (3) types of budgets (Planning Programming…

A two-year, nationwide research study was funded in 1974 with discretionary funds of Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to identify alternative patterns for developing community service programs. The study focused on methods used by decisionmakers in a variety of settings in which it was felt that strengthening had occurred as a…