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)

A mathematics curriculum, based on building up an adult's confidence through success and in teaching practical math abilities that are relevant to adult needs, is discussed. (BP)

Three options are discussed for institutional responses to pressures from clients (students), competitors, taxpayers, citizen activists, and faculty: (1) to concentrate on the preservation of traditional values; (2) to maximize growth in new markets; or (3) to seek a new educational synthesis. (JT)

This article summarizes the results of fieldwork designed to examine the implementation process in six diagnostic/prescriptive reading projects (part of the Rand Corporation's Change-Agent Study).

Nontraditional programs have fought and won victories because their cause seemed worthy. Now it is time, the author says, to consider how the merger of work and study and off-campus activities is distinctive. (Editor/JT)

Describes a computerized learning system capable of handling a wide variety of subject matter at different grade levels in a real time interactive mode. (MLH)

Discusses ways to improve doctoral programs and possible alternatives, such as self-directed nondegree studies. (MLH)