This is the second of five documents compiled to report on the problem of innovation and change in the context of projects supported by the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Systems (NCIES). This document consists of 13 case studies of eight NCIES programs: Career Opportunities, Teacher Corps, School Personnel Utilization, Early…

Recognizing the need to evaluate traditional methods of providing career information, this report reviews: (1) career exploration instructional materials, (2) research on career exploration programs, and (3) other innovative career exploration programs. Materials reviewed include handbooks, films, resource guides, and simulation kits. Also…

A central concern of educational innovation is making instruction relevant to the needs and learner characteristics of individual students generally and of special subpopulations of students in particular. Current schooling often involves inappropriate learning goals, ineffectual curricular and instructional materials, discriminatory organization…

The impact of instructional television and educational reform in El Salvador was apparent in the 1969 school year. Large gains in learning were recorded for each of the three televised seventh-grade courses--science, mathematics and social studies. Baseline tests administered in four grades of school revealed that urban students developed…

The goals of the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD), a computerized vocational development program which emphasized goal setting and purposeful action, are related to a tentative curriculum context called a Career Development Program. This Program is learner centered with process and subject matter a function of individual…

This review surveys recent documents previously announced in RIE that are concerned with flexible-modular scheduling. Benefits derived from innovative scheduling techniques range across the entire spectrum of the educational experience, frequently providing for substantial change in the roles of students, teachers, and administrators. Under such a…

The Individual Communications System (INDICOM) was begun in 1967 in Waterford School District, Michigan, as one of the first public school computer-assisted instruction projects in the Midwest. Its specific aim in developing CAI was to fuse the latest technology with the best thinking in education so as to create an instructional system which…

The first in a series of state-of-the art papers in the area of the teaching of English is presented. Reviews are made of relevant research, curriculum trends, teaching materials, the judgments of recognized experts in the field, reports and findings from various national committees and commission. The point is made that the teacher's image has…

Written as a synthesis of strategies for effecting change, this document is directed toward state and local educational administrators, supervisory personnel, researchers, development personnel, teachers, and teacher educators. In reviewing the literature it was evident that during the past few years there has been a growing emphasis on local…

This report is the last of a 3-part study of the readiness of parents, school board members, administrators and teachers to accept innovations in the educational system. The target group in this part of the study consisted of 307 administrators and 330 teachers. Each respondent was asked to give his reaction to 13 briefly described educational…

A general rationale and a specific blueprint for developing curriculum are presented. (See TM 001 363 for description of total project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, TM 001 364-373.) (MS)

The Southern Regional Education Board's Undergraduate Education Reform Project assists with the development of nontraditional approaches in undergraduate education throughout the South by helping institutions and state systems of higher education consider constructive changes within the context of their purposes, goals, and resources. This…

Some critical observers of schools despair of enduring and constructive change. Challenging the rhetoric of despair about change in school, the book is based on the hypothesis that schools, under certain conditions, can become much more vital and change-oriented than they currently are. The book begins by describing elements of educational reform…

A telephone-based referral service is provided by NEXUS, an information system on postsecondary education with emphasis on educational reform and innovation. This report summarizes the development and activities of the project from July, 1974 to June, 1976, as supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Described are: (1)…

This booklet is the third 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…