Concepts of felt need, educational experience, program development, and program evaluation are variables significant to the appraisal of adult educational needs. Although the existence of a social problem often indicates that educational needs exist, individual needs are more useful than social problems as a basis for program development. Experts…

Reported is the twenty-ninth session of the International Conference on Public Education which was designed to bring together information concerning educational research activities from many countries of the world. Information received for this document was obtained from a questionnaire which was addressed to the ministry of education in countries…

The problem addressed in this topic of study was that of identifying the inservice training needs of 26 administrators in the Glendale (Arizona) Elementary District and ranking those needs in order of importance. It was assumed that by ranking topic areas according to the number and percentage of responses a priority list of inservice training…

Educational and training benefits under theG. I. Bill of 1966 exist for Vietnam era and peacetime veterans. In 1974 New York State accounted for 513,000 Vietnam veterans and 248,000 peacetime veterans who are eligible for G.I. educational benefits, but only half of those eligible had applied for available benefits. Lack of adequate outreach and…

The monograph provides a historical perspective on the role that liberal arts has played in preparing individuals for careers and examines the role it will have to play if the liberal arts are to remain a meaningful form of education. The argument has four parts. First, it examines recent definitions of career education as an education calculated…

Project EDNEED has been charged with determining empirically data needed by vocational administrators at the local, State, regional, and national levels. Reliable data are necessary to present accurate reports to various State and Federal agencies and to provide answers to questions that are of major concern to legislators. Data are needed in the…

The 1974 annual reports of State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education (SACVE) begins with an 11-page overview of several issues concerning the State of vocational education as perceived by the SACVE: (1) funding, (2) disadvantaged and handicapped, (3) State plan, (4) data, (5) resource utilization, (6) relating training to manpower…

The last 10 years have been a distinctive decade in American education. There was much argument for change in the 1950s, but it was Sputnik that sparked action in the field of education. The assumption at that time was that if the U.S. was technologically "behind," the schools were to blame. Federal funds for schools began as an "emergency"…

The purpose of this study was to provide an adequate base of knowledge for the development of a local three-year master plan for staff development for education personnel. The plan should reflect specific needs identified through organized self-study and analysis by professional staff, students, and parents. The following opinion surveys and needs…

This booklet contains the proceedings of the first annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research (NCAIR). Contents include an address by the president of NCAIR concerning "Changing Demands on the Institutional Research Practitioner". He points out that in the relatively short life span of Institutional Research,…

The purpose of the seminar was to find some answers to, and a deeper understanding of the following questions. (1) What is the purpose or are the purposes of higher education? (2) What are the benefits of higher education to the individual and to society? (3) Can the outputs of higher education be named and measured? (4) Where is higher education…

The first half of this document deals with the nature of needs for higher quality in teacher education. The substance of quality in teacher education is discussed in light of the relationship between social reality and the schools. The second half develops the following outline of recommendations for a new program: 1) A National Teacher Education…

The British construction industry has one of the best-run training boards in that country, encompassing 70,000 establishments and maintaining working relationships with some 200 associations, federations and trade unions. This guide, prepared for all those concerned with training and education in the construction industry, contains (1) The…

In accordance with a 1966 recommendation that it "should thoroughly and radically re-examine its policies," the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) of Great Britain has prepared a policy statement covering the following: the WEA as an educational movement; the social relevance of adult education; the special responsibility of the WEA…

This booklet deals with the practical steps of educational evaluation: who should negotiate the contract? Who initiates evaluation? What are "goals process" and "parts process" and how are they matched? What are the steps in putting the process of evaluation into operation? What are the criteria for assessing observational techniques? What data…