This discussion of a new computer-based medium describes microcomputer (MC) painting and its principal tool, the MC paintbrush, and explores their potential roles in mathematics, computer science, and art education in secondary schools. This paper describes the school computer, discusses capabilities of MC painting, explains how MC painting is…

This research study focused on the change process that was used to bring about individualized schooling in six comprehensive senior high schools. The first chapter contains an overview of the study including a statement of the problem, background of the study, and a review of related literature. In the second chapter the six schools are…

This report provides a case study of a deliberately created interorganizational and political network among a national R&D center producing a new elementary curriculum in the arts, a state political structure including a state department of education with a multi-arts section and a governor committed publicly to broadening the children's education…

MICROTEACHING WAS USED IN A SERIES FOR THE IN-SERVICE TRAINING OF SUPERVISORS. TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS WERE GIVEN ONLY A CURSORY AMOUNT OF TRAINING AND INITIAL APPLICATION, YET SUPERVISORS WERE ABLE TO NOTICE DIFFERENCES IN TEACHING BEHAVIOR. THE TRAINING SEMINARS DEMONSTRATED THAT MICROTEACHING CAN BE OF REAL VALUE TO EXPERIENCED PERSONNEL.…

IN SPITE OF THE VOLUME OF RESEARCH ATTENTION DEVOTED TO THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS, RELATIVELY LITTLE EMPHASIS HAS BEEN PLACED UPON DIFFUSION WITHIN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES. METHODOLOGICALLY, RELATIONAL ANALYSIS IN WHICH THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS IS A TWO-PERSON INTERACTING PAIR, A MULTIPLE PERSON COMMUNICATION CHAIN, OR CLIQUES OR SUBSYSTEMS IS…

After providing introductory material on the characteristics of effective information dissemination, this report describes the strategy used by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) to disseminate its publication "Information Abstracts" to members of the consortium. The role of the campus contact person…

This report profiles dissemination activities in 38 states and territories as the activities were described by participants in state or territory discussion groups at the 1978 Dissemination Forum. The profiles represent highlights of the discussions in response to questions concerning forces for change, dissemination programs and resources,…

Markets can be defined as groups of people or organizations that have resources that could be exchanged for distinct benefits. Market segmentation is one strategy for market management and involves describing the market in terms of the subgroups that compose it so that exchanges with those subgroups can be more effectively promoted or facilitated.…

BECAUSE OF CONDITIONS PREDETERMINED BY TRANSFER INSTITUTIONS AND STATE REQUIREMENTS, THE JUNIOR COLLEGE CURRICULUM HAS BEEN RESTRICTED TO A RELATIVELY TRADITIONAL PATTERN. LACK OF SUCCESS OF BOTH TRANSFER AND TERMINAL PROGRAMS, EVIDENCED BY THE NUMBERS OF STUDENTS FAILING TO COMPLETE THEM, INDICATES A NEED TO CHANGE THE CURRICULUM. POTENTIAL AREAS…

Development of new concepts related to educational systems in new towns resulted from a two week concentrated idea session among architects, specialists from other fields, and students, Six teams were given programs by educators related to new towns and various educational goals. The resulting solutions reflected both the influence of new…

The purpose of this proposed project is to demonstrate innovations in a joint vocational school which would serve public and non-public schools in Erie, Huron, and the eastern portion of Ottawa counties. The objectives of the proposed activities were to (1) emphasize a correlated curriculum developed around the "world of work" between…

In the format of a letter to a student teacher, the author talks about the role of the English teacher, especially in the urban junior college class, and stresses the need for breaking down the "walls" which separate the teacher from the students and the students from each other. Recognition of the close relationship between the classroom world…

Teacher education is a stepchild--unwanted by colleges, permissively accepted by schools, allowed in any and all forms by state departments of education, tolerated by the profession. Attempts to reform teacher education have failed to recognize that the social institutions in which teacher education is embedded (schools, colleges, and state…

Because student participation in university governance is already a reality and will inevitably become more widespread, the task for American colleges and universities is to move toward more formal and institutionalized modes of student involvement. The experience of Brown University, which moved from essentially informal to formal student…

A summary report is presented of the Grambling College-Ouachita Parish Sixth Cycle Teacher Corps Project. Designed to improve the educational opportunities available to low-income students and to assist the college in bringing about basic changes in teacher education, the project had as its objectives: (1) to incorporate individually paced…