The data show that South Dakota teachers believe that past inservice education has generally been ineffective, have definite ideas about how inservice education should be redesigned, are willing to participate in planning and designing future inservice activities, and support inservice education as a way of improving their instructional skills.…

The former director of the national Teacher Center Project outlines nine of the most widely recognized problems in the development of teacher centers across the U.S. He concludes that the centers have given teachers a sense of greater control over their inservice education. (Author/WD)

This evaluation of an in-service program for teachers included surveys before the program, immediately after, and six months after. It found a decline in the acceptability of the workshop to the teachers over time and showed that the program had no significant impact on their teaching. (IRT)