The goals of the conference on off-campus education were designed to review (1) the continuing and integrative nature of education for all persons involved in the partnership of learning; (2) the uniqueness of off-campus education; (3) the place of off-campus education; and (4) criteria for evaluating the learning that occurs. Trends in…

The advantages of competency-based programs may indeed outweigh the disadvantages, but it is still fitting that teacher educators be aware of the disadvantages. In competency-based education, teaching acts are given priority over principles that guide the act. If we do no more than prepare teachers to respond to specific stimuli in predictable…

The nature and timing of decisions regarding the diffusion of new instructional materials and practices are critical to the ultimate utility achieved by a curriculum project. This publication is a collection of five conference papers which deal with various aspects of diffusion of innovative materials and ideas. Everett M. Rogers discusses two…

In this working paper of the National Seminar on the Diffusion of New Instructional Materials and Practices individual conference participants answer this question: What are the characteristics of educational products that make them more or less likely to be diffused? Responses focus on considerations related to size of the product, cost,…

In this report, the author attempts to (1) report the findings of an informal research survey concerning the perceptions of a sample of professional and lay personnel in Kentucky in regard to what they believe to be the inhibitors of change in education; and (2) extrapolate the sense of the findings into some generalizations regarding what might…

The Johnson Administration produced a significant proliferation of programs designed specifically to aid higher education. That those programs did not represent an overall strategy of institutional aid does not lessen the clear fact that the President was deeply committed to the concept of aid. The Congress was highly receptive to the Presidential…

This report describes the proceedings of a regional conference held for educators and representatives of public and private agencies throughout the New England area. The sponsorship of the conference was shared by Sears Roebuck Foundation Project and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The primary concern of this meeting was teacher training…

This speech explains education voucher programs and responds to criticisms of such programs. The education voucher system is described as one that questions traditional structures and methods while it equalizes opportunities to purchase education, fosters federally funded and controlled alternative school settings and programs, and gives parents…

The problems of this study was to assess the innovations, if any, that have been made in selected business teacher education institutions to implement the provisions of their state plan for vocational education. Areas of primary concern were: (1) to identify and analyze the changes in the teacher education curriculums for the preparation of office…

Based on the situation that even the experimental institutions of higher and adult education are still largely closed to disadvantaged groups, this document projects the College of Human Services as a prototype of extending educational and economic opportunity to the poor by training them for paraprofessional jobs in the human services. It traces…

"The purpose of this report was to select and present data on the various levels of education in the State of New Mexico, with particular reference to status, deficiencies and needs in curriculum and instruction. The most significant and relevant information on elementary education (public and non-public), secondary education (public and…

A striking feature of education during the last decade has been the high rate of finance and enrollment expansion that has gone hand in hand with economic growth and social development. Social demand for education has consistently run ahead of the resource provision in many countries, with the resulting paradox that education has been both the…

This report describes an administrator training program model in which a district-selected trainee and a practicing school administrator in an extern-intern approach work closely with the university and the local school system. Under this system, a trainee would enter a planned administrator training program at an approved institution of higher…

To improve education, creative alternatives to existing practices must be developed. Instructional technology offers promise, but its potential can be made use of fully only within a systems approach, applied both to improving structures of education and instructional processes. The systems approach can plan a system of instruction which has all…

The Achievement Motivation Development Project is described. The Project has culminated in the development of course materials designed explicitly to promote aspects of psychological growth. As such, it is viewed as but one thrust in an emerging psychological education movement. Achievement motivation is defined as a way of planning, a set of…