A major objective of this study was to determine how Research and Development (R&D) managers, executives, training directors, and academic administrators, perceive the future demand for continuing education in R&D as well as what new institutional arrangements, program innovations, and policy changes they believe will be necessary to meet future…

The national need for an ample pool of research scientists is considered. Research in universities and in the federally funded research facilities is described, and the importance of the research these institutions do and the interweaving of research and instruction in universities are noted. Some manpower projections are included and questions…

The Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) of Malaysia became an operating agency in January 1973 and became a division of the Malaysia Ministry of Education in May 1974. Its establishment was the culmination of over a decade of curriculum development efforts by the Ministry of Education. The CDC was an outgrowth of both the First and Second Malaysia…

OF THE EIGHT INITIAL EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (R AND I) UNITS, ESTABLISHED IN WISCONSIN SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP AND EXECUTE EXEMPLARY INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE THEM THROUGH A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH, THREE EXPERIMENTS ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT RESULTS. IN ONE, 99 SIXTH-GRADERS RECEIVED THREE TYPES OF SPELLING…

The development and implementation of an evaluation plan for a district's program for the gifted is examined. The school system in question applied for state funding to develop appropriate instrumentation and implement such a plan. Its uniqueness was in its attempt to secure funds for developing an evaluation for a given program. Because the…

The applicability and validity of NCHEMS' Information Exchange Procedures (IEP) to major research universities are examined. IEP enables peer institutions to compare information about their resources. The major research universities formed a task group to determine the use of IEP's focus points: costing methods and possible alternative approaches…

This paper discusses the problems and issues involved in the organizational structure of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education. The National Laboratory, which consisted of a coordination center and six university based research and development centers, was organized for the purpose of planning, sponsoring and conducting research and…

This paper examines the existing and potential roles of educational service agencies (ESAs) and their relationships with state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs). Special attention is focused on urban school districts. The paper also critically analyzes these roles and relationships as they relate to dissemination…

About 80% of the 282 employees at a university-based educational research and development center completed questionnaires based on J.E. Grunig's theory of communication behavior in a study to define communication types, discover communication patterns, and make recommendations for improving the center's communication program. Grunig's theory…

This report presents results of a critical analysis of 20 regional educational laboratories and nine university research and development centers established under ESEA Title IV. Observations, supported by specific examples, are made concerning the laboratories and centers and deal with their roles, programs definitions, impact on educational…

This surveillance report is an update of the Laboratory's December 1967, report. It presents the current status of (1) organizational arrangements to facilitate the use of research and development information within the public school setting and (2) personnel training programs for increasing the use of research and development information by…

The paper describes the development, by the Center for Vocational and Technical Education (CVTE), of instructional modules for a performance-based system for the teaching of vocational teachers and includes a list of five characteristics distinguishing performance-based teacher education (PBTE) from the more traditional forms. The research base…

Presented are papers and discussion summaries from the first research management conference for mental retardation research centers (Denver, 1974). Basic concepts and application principles of management by objectives are analyzed in a two-part paper by E. Douglas Hodo. Reviewed in a paper by Richard Surles and Norm Ellis is a decision system for…

The evolution and current operation of the Ontario Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Network are described. Sponsored by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and including 11 community colleges in Ontario, the network has computer installations and access devices throughout the province. Initial development work was done using a…

An educational development team, working at the Center for the Study of Evaluation to produce the Elementary School Formative Evaluation Kit, saw that its mission was not simply to show that a product meets pre-determined performance specifications but was also to ensure that a product can be readily adapted by the user to the "noisy"…