The results of a survey conducted by the Ad hoc Committee to Study the Needs and Problems of the Classroom Teacher in Curriculum Development are reported. Questionnaires were sent to members of the American School Health Association (ASHA). The survey was composed of four sections: (1) background information on demographic data, institutional…

The Training Program consists of three specialized courses in medical librarianship, a four-week orientation to medical librarianship, field trips, and a seminar series on related topics. Resources of the local medical and academic communities have been used and an internship program for librarians in the two Veterans Administration hospitals in…

The development of the largest school-based career education model program, by the Center for Vocational Education (CVE), went through several stages. The three levels of career awareness, career exploration, and vocational preparation became an integral part of the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) at an early stage. Eight elements were…

The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been involved in the design and development of career education curriculum materials for well over a decade, even before the term was originated by the U.S. Office of Education. This led to the involvement of AIR in the design and development of the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM). Four…

At the end of the first nine months of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) project to revise and field test the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) curriculum materials, activities are proceeding on four fronts. A coding of 61 curriculum units on a lesson-by-lesson basis has been completed and a content analysis is now being carried…

Instructional materials development in agricultural education is part of the role of the faculty in the Agricultural Education Program Area at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The bases for instructional materials development must relate to the curriculum. Curriculum development is a moving circular process involving horizontal…

There is nationwide pressure by the taxpaying public to have teachers be accountable for what they are trying to teach. Massive inservice education programs may become necessary for school districts to equip teachers to cope with this change. Staff development in many school districts often consists of a lecture or speech by some "expert" on…

This paper describes the results of an effort to apply a classification system developed by the Human Resources Research Organization to a set of termanal objectives in reading. The classification system contained five factors, of three levels each. Some 312 terminal objectives and 766 approximations were classified by three raters. Agreement…

This bibliography is included in the fourth series of general bibliographies developed to disseminate information on documents analyzed at the ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science and Mathematics Education. Reported are 386 citations of selected documents related to science and mathematics curricula. The documents include research reports,…

This paper lists the components of a curriculum theory, examines the constraints on theory building, and suggests several points at which the domain of curriculum research might be distinguished from learning and instruction. (Author/LLR)

In order to determine the relationship between teacher participation in curriculum planning and teacher attitudes toward curriculum planning and use, the Curriculum Attitude Inventory (CAI) was developed and tested twice on groups of teachers who had been identified by their principals as having either strong positive or negative attitudes toward…

This 2-volume document reports on a study to (1) explore the use of network analysis as a means of describing and comparing selected instances of the curriculum change process, (2) compare the selected instances with each other, and (3) compare five conceptualizations of the change process when applied to specific change situations. (Considerable…

This study was concerned with the effects of selected experiences on the ability of preschool children to use conservation of length and conservation of length relations. The experiences involved the equivalence relation "the same length as" and the two order relations "shorter than" and "longer than." The subjects were 51 four and five year old…

Curriculum management can be defined as an orderly, ongoing process of review and evaluation of the entire curriculum. It controls for unnecessary course duplication and overlap by holding each course accountable to both fiscal and content criteria. Presently, most college curricula are not being controlled by effective systematic evaluation. The…

This paper explores some problems of adaptation of curriculum materials that need to be faced by product developers and teacher trainers. It focuses on: a) developing teacher skill in purposeful variation, b) promoting adaptation of materials, and c) transforming available products. First, the Responsive Teaching project, designed to instruct…