This catalog lists all curriculum materials submitted for display at the 1976 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Conference in Miami Beach. Materials are grouped according to subject matter, with separate sections for general curriculum development, adult education, art, bilingual education, career education, consumer…

The Agenda for Action is a model for institutionalizing a continuous and rational system of curriculum improvement. It defines the process and procedures whereby all teacher education and school service personnel programs in the College of Education at Bowling Green State University are to be reviewed and subsequently redesigned to assure that…

The efforts of a pair of curriculum developers to conduct "formative" and "summative" evaluation of an experimental civics course are described here, along with some of the consequences of their efforts, and a few of the pitfalls they encountered. Formative evaluation refers to those practices that produce data enabling developers to improve their…

The purpose of this study was to determine those environmental understandings important for inclusion in the elementary school curriculum and basic to the knowledge of the urban environment. A survey instrument was developed for this study which presented 104 understandings in the general areas of air, land use, man-made resources, water, and…

After two years of experimental teaching and research in suburban high schools, the Cleveland area Human Relations Curriculum Program is being expanded to include the inner-city and elementary schools. In an attempt to increase man's ability to get along with his fellow man, it employs a multimedia approach including films, documentaries, news…

Described is a proposed structure for an elementary school science program that has as its fundamental, underlying assumption a science curriculum that enables the child to "learn how to learn" and sets self-actualized learning as a major goal of education. This program also calls for: (1) flexibility that facilitates maximum cognitive progress of…

Included are progress reports from forty-two countries, ranging from accounts of complete adaptation and implementation of Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) materials to notes of preliminary contact with BSCS programs. Countries represented are: Afganistan, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Central America, Ceylon, Chile,…

The second volume of a two-volume final report includes 13 appendices and a bibliography. The appendices relate to readability test results, program growth, testing schedules, conferences, information publications, the ISCS Center Leader Concept, agenda for meetings, demonstration schools, materials development contributors, sample conference…

This study reports the results of teaching junior college students in a block or mini-college plan, in which five teachers shared the same students in a core program of courses. Objectives of this approach included increasing student identity with the college, developing new concepts about team teaching, utilizing the advantages of modern…

In this report the authors have presented an overview of the most significant findings principally concerned with long- and short-term higher educational trends and developments, and their implications for the years ahead. A major portion of the data consisted of long-term historical analyses of educational attainment in the United States,…

The study of curriculum may be characterized as an inquiry into the range of ways in which the subject matters of teacher, student, subject, and milieu can be seen. A review of the literature indicates that curriculum theory has been under development for several years. However, considerable research and conceptual formulation must be done to…

This project was undertaken to establish a basis for a compensatory curriculum for disadvantaged preschool children by using existing empirical data to identify factors that predict success in reading comprehension and that differentiate the disadvantaged from the nondisadvantaged. The project focused on factors related to success in learning to…

This report describes an experimental study conducted in two New York state high schools for the purpose of determining the feasibility of using electronic calculators to improve mathematics instruction. The study was also concerned with determining whether or not curriculum-related materials can be developed to make the electronic calculator a…

This booklet is the third in a series of four instructional aids designed to implement the first phase of the industriology concept. In this book, 46 information sheets and 26 job sheets cover the content and activities as suggested in the Teaching Plan (VT 010 313) for Development and Structure of Industry--the first phase of the Industriology…

The highlights of a conference which brought together educators and experts in systems applications are presented here. The central topic of discussion was the possibility of major curriculum revision in the light of the recent emphasis on a systems approach to education. The papers presented stress the view that the emphasis in the future must be…