Oberlin's Education Commission recommendations for curriculum reform, degree requirements, evaluation, environment, and structure are contained in this document. The Commission is made up of faculty, students and administrative officers. Among the changes proposed are: the abolition of subject-matter, language and physical education requirements…

This document describes the innovative approach that Minnesota Metropolitan State College, a recently established upper level college, has developed. It is felt that many of the aspects of the MMSC plan can be beneficial to planners in black colleges across the U.S. See also HE 003 464. (HS)

In August 1970, the National Science Foundation funded a program to study the advantages and disadvantages of low-cost mini-computers as instructional devices at 10 small colleges. The small colleges involved in the experiment have demonstrated that a computer facility can be used to considerable advantage in the instruction process, and students…

This report reviews the accomplishments of the Competency Based Teacher Education Program at Tennessee State University from September 15, 1971 to December 17, 1971. It presents the procedures and the extent to which the recommendations of the feasibility study and the projections in the progress report have been implemented. Reports of the…

This document presents the speeches and programs that comprised the 48th Annual Conference of the Associations of College Unions-International. The conference was divided into 6 major parts. The first part was concerned with the administrative organization of the college union, taking into consideration the student-faculty partnership organization…

Northeast Missouri State College developed a Teaching Skills Center providing a program of early professional laboratory experiences for all elementary and secondary education majors. The program includes four components: audiovisual utilization, instructional materials preparation, microteaching, and actual school experience. Each training…

The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) Foundation, in cooperation with various Southern universities, each year conducts a program of seminars for Southern journalists. The purpose of the seminars is to give those whose responsibility it is to report, edit, and comment on the news the opportunity to increase their knowledge and…

A pre-test is described that was developed to determine the deficiencies of students in a college-level life science course. Twenty-six competencies prerequisite to the understanding of the course were included in the test, which was administered to 69 students. No student posessed more than 20 competencies; a majority of the students could…

A pre-planned team approach to educational change is described to maximize the chances that education majors and public school students willfully receive the types of improved learning experiences new curricula and organizational innovations promote. Public school and college change agents participating in an action lab sponsored by the…

This paper describes a study that developed and tested a research measure for investigating the concerns of teachers at different stages in the adoption of educational innovations. Through a review of the literature, the staff of the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations project identified seven different stages of teacher concern about…

This booklet is the second in a series of annual publications that list and describe a wide array of promising and innovative educational practices in hopes of stimulating the development of alternative educational delivery systems and strategies involving students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Included in the booklet are brief…

This document is concerned with problems in the education of mathematics teachers. Part 1 gives an overall introduction to the papers included in this volume. Part 2 is concerned with problems of educational reform and provides a survey of the literature on innovation research, discusses some contradictions in the innovation process, and describes…

The school needs to give attention to the development of feeling. Valuing human beings need to throw aside the shackles that bind many schools to superficial low-level programs. They need to be daring and venturesome, realizing that in the last analysis there is nothing that can destroy a society more rapidly than bored students who are unwilling…

A case study of a systemwide development, implementation, and evaluation of K-10 mathematics programs primarily, although not exclusively, in basic computational skills and problem-solving. (Author/MLF)

The results of this research study indicate that organizational status and status risk outweigh psychological or demographic conditions in explaining the receptivity to organizational change. (Author/DE)