Pressures for innovation in administration and instruction at the elementary level in Italy's public education system during the 1960s led to two major pieces of legislation mandating five basic changes. These changes involved providing cultural enrichment programs, reassessing the relationship between teaching and learning, decreasing the social…

Student involvement in the area of curriculum criticism would provide a more comprehensive view of curricular and educational needs. Curriculum criticism is premised on an analogy between the curriculum (as a set of materials offering experience to its recipients) and the work of art in any medium. The curriculum critic attempts to portray the…

Evaluative criteria providing subjective and objective responses has been established for the planning, organization, implementation and/or evaluation of a middle school by experts in the middle school concept. Students, parents, staff, and administration should be involved in the evaluation of the middle school's philosophy. By rating statements…

The costs of human resources consume a disproportionate percentage of the hospital's operating budget when compared to the operating budget of other industries. Within these costs two related issues--nursing shortage and nursing recruitment--are particularly relevant to development of nontraditional staff development roles. Traditionally, staff…

Problems involved in implementing curriculum changes in Asian countries is the subject of this report, presented in the form of a symposium. The Technical Working Group of the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID) met in September, 1976, to study the experiences of the following countries: India, Indonesia, Republic of…

Guidelines are presented for an approach to specification of competencies appropriate to Extended Degree Programs, i.e., the course or program translation approach. Program designers begin by identifying a number of courses or curriculum areas, then deductively reducing them to competency statements of greater specificity until instructional…

Network theory has recently been suggested as providing a useful framework for developing a change strategy by which the federal government can induce educational reform. In this paper the potential contributions of network theory are assessed by showing its close relationship to group theory. Then three critiques of group theory and…

Conditions that influence a school's readiness for change are analyzed in this monograph for the purpose of providing practitioners, especially those who provide assistance to schools, with specific guides for diagnosing readiness for change. The publication is a tool to help school personnel and others make wise and deliberate decisions about…

This paper looks beyond the language of shared decision-making and team teaching to provide insight into how the norms of Individually Guided Education are translated into specific adoption outcomes. Its purposes are (1) to explicate the historical context and assumptions about the nature of schooling and the role of the teacher that are implicit…

Focusing on the change process, this document presents five papers given at a regional EPDA inservice education program. Papers included are (1) Underlying Dimensions of the Change Process, by William Hull, which presents guidelines for planned change; (2) Alternative Organizations for Producing Innovation, by Daniel Koble, which describes…

This report describes a project for developing the capacity to provide Wyoming's local education agencies with the means, resources, and processes for effective incremental improvement of their ongoing education efforts, particularly in vocational education, through adoption of an adaptation of the National Institute of Education's…

The purpose of this report is to describe attempts to measure change using the levels of use (LoU) approach and the difficulties encountered during its application in a research setting. The report has three parts. Part 1 focuses on a description of the LoU approach, including a description of the concerns-based adoption model (CBAM), the…

This pilot project at Bath Elementary School at Richfield, Ohio, was conducted to assess the feasibility of computer assisted instruction (CAI) for the Revere Local Elementary Schools. The primary focus of the project was to assist sixth grade students in using the computer as an interactive instructional system in the areas of remedial reading,…

This paper describing the dissemination and evaluation of the Annehurst Curriculum Classification System (ACCS) for individualizing instruction provides a brief history of how the Annehurst system came to be developed, describes a series of workshops that were designed to introduce the ACCS to teachers and administrators throughout the United…

This monograph describes in detail how a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), or Keller Plan, approach was implemented in a large statistics course at Massey University, New Zealand. Some of the strengths and weaknesses of the scheme are explored and possible extensions noted. Major areas covered are subject area (statistics), logistics,…