Illinois demonstration centers were established as change agents for the improvement of district programs for gifted children. The purpose of this study is to ascertain what factors operate within a demonstration process to influence visiting school personnel to initiate innovations in their schools. Three instruments were administered and…

Section 1 of this report reviews the findings of a Carnegie Commission study of the use or planned use of innovative practices in 882 institutions, in general, and at Briar Cliff College at Sioux City, in particular. The innovations were divided into 4 categories: (1) curriculum and instruction, (2) instructional practice, (3) student governance…

Catalogs of 322 US colleges and universities for the years 1957 and 1967 were analyzed to determine the range and frequency of prevailing undergraduate curricular practices on a national level. The institutions chosen for the study were representative as to type, control, size, geographic location, and accreditation region in proportion to the…

There is no doubt that US institutions of higher education are often encrusted with traditions to the point where they no longer meet contemporary faculty and student needs. It is high time for educators in the US to admit that there is much merit in student desires for participatory campus governance, without which colleges and universities may…

This report covers the second annual conference at which educators and members of the industrial world met to discuss needs, programs, new developments, and other matters on which continuing engineering studies (CES) should be based. The first address describes problems that often beset professionals in continuing education and suggests the…

Students enrolled in college remedial English courses typically profit little from them. Improved instruction through the use of innovative teaching techniques was viewed as a possible solution to the problem. Following a review of pertinent learning theory, some examples of current innovative ideas and techniques aimed at improving instruction…

This report, directed toward junior college board members, presidents, deans, department heads, and teachers, as well as legislators, attempts to stimulate thought and action to improve general education in occupational programs offered by junior colleges. Following a review of the unsatisfactory status of present curricula, a rationale and…

The President of Brown University appointed a Special Committee on Educational Principles in December 1968 to examine the educational philosophy underlying the undergraduate curriculum, propose a statement of curricular philosophy in time for faculty action before June 1969, and recommend specific techniques for implementation. The Committee…

This article deals with the community college movement and the work of the Center relating to junior colleges. Community colleges are practicing what students in the prestige universities are demanding: the democratization of higher education which includes responsiveness to community needs, an open entrance policy, the abolition of the concept of…

Professor Stake feels that Professor Glaser's paper does not give adequate attention to how descriptions and judgements of the instructional process can be used to facilitate educational decisions. He also asserts that behavioral specification, as it is usually defined, is often impractical and unnecessary, and he challenges the primacy of goal…

This commentary takes no serious exception to Professor Lortie's conclusions about educational changes and issues in evaluation, but it examines certain assumptions. It questions the implications that each school district needs independent evaluation and that evaluation should be applied at the end of a given educational program, and asks what…

The results from application of Stufflebeam's comprehensive decision-making methodology--the context-input-process-product (CIPP) evaluation model--to the evaluation of a dental team training program with expanded functions of auxiliary personnel (paraprofessionals) at a school of dentistry are described. In view of the expectations of health care…

Any change in education that is for the purpose of improving the quality of learning experiences must either grow out of internalized changes on the part of those who must put the change into effect and support it; or must be brought about in such a way that local staffs and community members achieve necessary internalized changes in their values,…

A national sample survey of innovation processes reported by superintendents in 353 school districts reveals four distinct patterns of belief regarding change. These four patterns are identified as "participative problem solving,""RD&D,""strategic manipulation," and "open advocacy-human revolution." Three of the four correspond closely to…

The rapidity with which change occurs and knowledge expands requires that teachers constantly review their methods and techniques to ensure that students receive the best education. Teaching involves a series of decisions throughout the instructional process with regard to: a) the objectives of instruction; b) content; c) instructional strategies;…