The growing number of treatment programs for people who drink and drive requires that these programs be clearly understood. The judicial mandate for treatment creates not only a significant opportunity to modify behavior and improve personal and interpersonal functioning, but also brings with it an obligation to implement programs which reflect…

The first step in making a community college foundation successful is to evaluate the institution, its programs, the commitment of its personnel, and the difference it makes in the community. If the college is found to be a viable, integral part of the community, worthy of its support, then the groundwork for seeking that support can be laid. The…

The Model Teacher Induction Project will: (1) identify needs of beginning teachers; (2) develop and implement a model teacher induction program designed to meet those needs; (3) assess the effects of the model program on new teachers in a school setting; (4) inform the teacher education community about the program; (5) study the subsequent…

This report summarizes a study that explored the relationships between efforts to improve schools, the definitions of effectiveness or success which drive those efforts, and how these are affected by the inner life, or cultures, of the schools. Three improving high schools were studied in an attempt to understand the deeply-held beliefs of the…

This article describes and provides examples of the three major training modalities currently in vogue. The strengths and weaknesses of each are examined and then integrated to build a recommended model for future training efforts. (Author)

The technological mode of thought is inappropriate to comprehend the forms of cultural life in all its richness and variety. Unless accountability measures are concerned with the immensely diverse schemes and patterns by which people give meaning to their lives, schooling will be based on an impoverishment of reality. (HMD)

The Lester Hill Corporation is the name of an office simulation enterprise for the distribution of hotel and motel equipment. The article contains a sampling of comments from teachers and students (the "branch offices") regarding the simulation's effectiveness. (AG)

The reasons for clinical failures of classroom token economies are divided into three groups: (1) Problems associated with the token program itself, (2) Problems associated with the teacher, and (3) Problems associated with the specific population on which the classroom token economy is used. Each of these problem areas is discussed. (Author)

Microteaching, using videotape equipment as a training aid, may enhance the skills and effectiveness of trainees in Manpower Development Training centers, allows the trainee to learn through manipulative experience and to receive immediate feedback regarding his performance, and provides program coordinators with a means of evaluating the…

The Pre-Kindergarten Program for Hospitalized Children funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VI was designed to offer pre-school instruction from September 1974, through June 1975 to handicapped and hospitalized pre-kindergarten children. The services of the program included diagnosis, individual and group instruction, and…

This paper reports on a usually unrecognized potential benefit of measurement instruments designed for research in instruction: the effectiveness of these instruments when used as instructional procedures. Two studies were involved in the development of this concept. In the first study, an extensive instrument was designed to measure changes in…

This report is one of eight volumes in the National Institute of Education's Compensatory Education Study which describe the findings and procedures of the Instructional Dimensions Study, an indepth assessment of the relationships between selected instructional constructs and students' achievement. Program cost analysis was included in the study…