This monograph provides teachers and teacher trainees with practical assistance in evaluating and documenting school-level innovations. Authentic and concrete illustrations culled from reports of evaluations of innovative projects funded by the Australian Schools Commission are featured. Examples are used to illustrate seven major aspects which…

An attempt to develop understandings about how individuals experience change within organizational contexts is presented. Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) research provides background for how evaluation utilization can be defined and why it might be useful to view evaluation as an innovation. A change process-based definition of evaluation…

Discusses the Academic Conference held each year at Southern Methodist University to implement innovations into the university structure. (PG)

A second survey of a volunteered panel of readers of Social Education on trends and practices in social studies reports on the perceived climate for innovation. (JH)

Reflections on four years spent in the establishment of a new community college. (Editor)

A question-answer interview on educational television uses in Great Britain. (HB)

A description of a British language educational television course using drama. (HB)

Discusses the issue of quantity versus quality of education. Indicates that schooling is necessary, but suggests that perhaps the length of time a child spends in school could be reduced. (SB)

Proposes a national student group life insurance program be established under federal auspices. The insurance coverage would vary with the cost of the college attended and with the student's need for assistance. (Author/PG)

Pros and cons of PSI are argued; it is praised as an option for students to select but is opposed as a substitute for the lecture system. (Author/KM)

The rationale and mechanics of some innovations utilized in teaching a course in juvenile delinquency are described and presented in conjunction with handouts developed for the course. (Authoor/KM)

Article investigated educational change and the significance of this change by examining three works that best exemplify it. (Author/RK)