This project was a community environmental education effort undertaken in an urban neighborhood, aimed at enhancing the understanding residents have concerning the social and spatial structure of their neighborhood, and thereby improving their ability to act effectively for environmental change. Nearly 100 residents participated in a four-month…

The National Science Foundation financed a project enabling 10 small, nonresearch colleges to purchase minicomputers for academic and administrative use. The purpose of the study was to determine whether an owned minicomputer is a better investment for such small colleges than a time-sharing system or a cooperative arrangement. The colleges…

The Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication (CIP) program is designed to provide professional cataloging data to publishers for printing in their books. From July 1973 to July 1974 the program has grown to include over 640 publishers. CIP is also being carried out by the National Library of Medicine and several major libraries in other…

This paper presents a theoretical concept of evaluation which can be utilized by classroom teachers at any level in evaluating teacher education programs in reading. The following theoretical requirements (questions) necessary to develop an evaluation plan for the improvement of teacher education programs in reading are discussed: (a) What are…

This study reports the findings of a telephone interview conducted with 12 teacher education project/program directors at Indiana University to ascertain the directors' perceptions and reflections regarding the quality and quantity of services rendered by ad hoc service-oriented teams and centers within the Division of Teacher Education. These…

The Center's Career and Curricula program bases its work upon a theory of career development. The report presents summaries of the theory upon which the program was based, of the work accomplished by the program, and of the research conducted. It also provides abstracts and ordering sources for the various reports completed. The theory assumes…

In the first section of the document the author uses reviews of selected studies to provide a cross-section of methodologies used in evaluating vocational and technical education programs. The second section takes a formal model developed for the evaluation of vocational education (Central Kentucky Research Coordinating Unit, 1972) and explains…

This article deals with several techniques for regulating cash inflow and outflow and investing surplus cash for short periods of time. The techniques are: (1) consolidating checking accounts, (2) determining surplus cash by examining bank balances in conjunction with the cash book, (3) selecting a minimum bank balance, (4) investing a greater…

This document takes issue with the concept of competency-based teacher education as presented in the New York Regents Master Plan for Development of Post-Secondary Education, 1972. It maintains that the competency-based concept completely undermines tenure and teacher rights to due process. Further, the paper takes the position that the teacher…

This report contains Senate Hearings on the proposed 1974 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Secretary of HEW, Casper Weinberger, and his staff clarify and defend the various parts of the budget including those for health programs and social security as well as for education. Changes from the 1973 budget are shown…

Section 204 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 directs the General Accounting Office (GAO) to make studies of the costs and benefits of existing programs. This document was developed to respond to this legislation through informational support to GAO and others interested in evaluating the effectiveness of Federal programs. It includes…

A guide for understanding the New Mexico statewide evaluation program is presented. It includes the following main sections: (1) educational evaluation: 1969 to Current, (2) Senate Memorial 40, (3) entry phases in objective based evaluation program, (4) schedule of evaluation activities for 1972-73 school year, (5) specific duties for MAP…

Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) has not been cost-effective, despite its instructional effectiveness. This financial failure can be attributed to many factors, including: oversell of CAI capabilities, poorly authored content, expensive and unreliable hardware, an educational bureaucracy resistant to innovation, and the decentralized nature of…

All planning techniques and models concern themselves with four basic tasks: (1) the determination of the objectives or purpose of the activity, (2) the development of programs likely to attain the objectives, (3) the organization of experiences into a coherent, meaningful unit, and (4) the evaluation of the extent to which programs meet the…

As a result of a concern over the adequacy of teacher rating instruments, a project was begun to develop a pool of items describing teacher behavior. Most of the items were derived from the literature; some were written by the project. The item pool presently consists of 1137 items subsumed under 19 categories. Examples of categories are: personal…