Research can provide insights into problems related to adult basic education (ABE) program success. The potential ABE population is great; for example, the Maryland target group includes nearly 1,097,000. Several studies have revealed that those needing ABE most are least likely to be program participants. Various problems that often overwhelm the…

To identify and describe extension role types, all educational assistants in the Small Farm Program, agricultural specialists, and community development and local government specialists in Missouri were asked to fill out questionnaires asking how frequently they performed 56 activities broadly representing what extension field staff might do.…

This guide was designed for trainers presenting inservice workshops for program evaluators, teachers, principals, curriculum specialists, and others responsible for school programs. It is keyed to a companion volume, the Program Evaluator's Guide (ED l42 563), the primary source for workshop participants. Developed under the California Evaluation…

This paper describes a method of research to examine the process of effecting educational change through adopting innovative ideas. Twenty-nine elementary teachers in the process of adopting a complex curricular innovation were studied. Because of the complex nature of this process, ordering theory was used as the method for analyzing the adoption…

A Teacher Corps project intended to develop and implement a program of individualized instruction at a local middle school is described. The program is based on the assumption that each student is, in some way, a gifted student. The project adapts educational research in the area of gifted student instruction to a middle-school teacher-student…

This handbook for state and local education agencies is intended as a reference to assist in initiating and/or improving follow-up systems or studies of former vocational students. A companion volume focuses on follow-up studies of special populations (see Note). Section 1, which contains information on use of the handbook, also introduces the…

THE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IS EMPHASIZED AS THE KEY ACTIVITY. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE MID-1950'S BECAME ONE OF THE MOST VIGOROUS AND HOPEFUL PROTAGONISTS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. THE ACTS PASSED AND THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CREATED ARE NOTED AS AGENTS IN THIS NEW…

The purpose of this review is twofold--to summarize the major models of educational change and to present a series of generalizations based on recent empirical studies about educational change. In the first section, previous reviews of the change literature are presented in order to establish a broad perspective concerning research in this area.…

This booklet was written to provide elementary-school teachers with an overview of some of the research results related to the development of computational skills, together with ideas for classroom activities which have grown out of research projects. The booklet is organized into twelve sections, the first of which is devoted to delineating the…

The goals and purposes to be served by graduate level professional preparation for educators are examined and redefined in these essays. The authors are experienced as administrators in schools, colleges, or departments of education. The current state of graduate programs in education in terms of the pressures, problems, dilemmas, and…

ALTHOUGH THE HUMANITIES ARE EXPERIENCING IN THIS COUNTRY AN UNPRECEDENTED EXPANSION AND INCREASE IN NUMBER OF DEGREES GRANTED AND IN FINANCIAL SUPPORT, THEY HAVE SUFFERED A RELATIVE DECLINE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT, FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND STUDENT QUALITY WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER AREAS OF STUDY. THIS PLIGHT OF THE HUMANITIES STEMS FROM A "METHODOLOGICAL…

Investigators from seven universities and the National Training Laboratories cooperated in a research project to help 15 school systems improve their effectiveness. Utilizing questionnaire response data from approximately 5,000 adults and 6,000 fifth and 11th grade students, the project analyzed problems of planned change in schools, evaluated the…

This paper reports on the current status of institutional research (IR) in community colleges. Studies indicate increased IR involvement in the last ten years, with the most recent research suggesting that 39% of the community colleges have IR programs; yet the typical institutional researcher still exists at the lowest level of staff…

This document examines eight factors perceived by the researchers to affect or explain individual and institutional behavior for a substantial number of schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs), especially in relation to current or projected knowledge production and utilization (KPU) activity. These "contextual…

This book is considered to provide a sober, balanced, and scholarly examination of the evidence that bears on the role of genetic and environmental factors in the determination of group differences in ability in the United States. The first chapter provides something of the background and recent history of the concern with racial-ethnic…