At this symposium on career education and the school counselor, three researchers spoke about a project on which they have been working which involves field-testing and evaluating 61 career education units that are to be infused into the present public school curriculum, K-12. This project explores the implications of the school-based model as it…

This paper presents an alternative approach to evuating Individually Guided Education (IGE) which should be prerequisite to the conduct of output evaluation. To this end, it introduces a specially designed instrument, the "IGE Implementation Survey," which is capable of systematically collecting information on the degree to which schools…

A lead article, Approaches to Values Education, written by Douglas Superka, lists six problems and describes eight approaches to teaching values education. These appraoches include evocation, inculcation, awarness, moral reasoning, analysis, clarification, commitment, and union. Other inclusions in the newsletter are: (1) announcement of new…

This document presents a plan which would integrate theoretical considerations of sport and movement activities with actual student experience in movement. Emphasis is placed on the experience of self in movement, the experience of self in relation to others, learning about others in movement, and understanding movement itself. Activities used to…

This final report provides an evaluation of Project Advance, an attempt at providing supplemental services to the Morse Crisis Intervention Center in the Washington, D.C. Public School System. The Morse Center was established to handle students who had to be removed from public junior high schools because of disruptive behavior. Project Advance…

A graduate program in engineering at the Joint Institute for Acoustics and Flight Sciences (JIAFS) is described. JIAFS is a cooperative undertaking between the NASA-Langley Research Center and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University. This program adopts a more practical approach than traditional graduate…

After a general review of approaches to the evaluation of curriculum innovations the author presents a strategy for summative evaluation based on three related activities: (1) the intrinsic evaluation of the curriculum materials that incorporate the aims, objectives, and teaching and learning strategies of the program being evaluated; (2) a…

In examining the potential role of satellites and cable in classroom use, technological developments have been seen as extensions of schooling, rather than education in the broader sense. It is said that most education actually occurs in the school format, however, more progress in media development is predicted in non-school contexts, especially…

The result of a survey carried out within the framework of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education, this directory is based solely on information collected from member institutions. A goal is to encourage member institutions to establish direct contacts among themselves. A list of planning, managerial, and administrative…

The PEACESAT Project (Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite) is an international education experiment involving institutions in 12 nations of the Pacific basin. Begun in 1969 and in full operation since 1971, the project experiments with the application of communications technology and new methods of operation especially…

PEACESAT (Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiment by Satellite) is a demonstration project initiated in 1971. Its objective is to study the benefits arising from direct conference communications between groups with common interests in widely separated nations of the Pacific. Cooperating institutions are linked by low cost,…

A variety of innovations are being introduced in schools throughout the country for the purposes of improving instruction and enriching the learning experiences of students. This text covers six major innovations in education. They are: (1) accountability; (2) behavioral objectives; (3) differentiated staffing; (4) education vouchers; (5)…

This presentation focuses on impressions and findings resulting in activities in the Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning Project, which is briefly described. Comments are made about nontraditional programs in higher education that provide opportunities and assessment for experiential learning particularly and centers on five topics:…

This paper discusses the problem of selecting appropriate minimum criteria for the review of educational programs and products that will not unduly hinder the creative freedom of educational developers. The author first asserts that although most people support the concept of examining and assessing educational products and programs, there is much…

The "Trouble Shooting" Checklist (TSC) for Higher Educational Settings has been developed to assist educational change agents, faculty, and administrators concerned with change, in their assessment of organizational variables predictive of a department's potential for successfully adopting innovations. The higher educational based TSC is both…