The Music Educators National Conference sponsored a 3-day intensive research training program in 1969 to prepare participants for research in curriculum development and evaluation. Major objectives of the program, in which 222 music educators participated, were to train each participant to be able to (1) write an educationally useful statement of…

This report provides a summary record of the development and evaluation of a training package product that includes three separate sets of training materials developed to increase the skill, knowledge, and understanding of school personnel in the area of instructional planning and management. Instructional planning is defined generally as that…

This framework was prepared by the State Advisory Committee on Science Education and is designed to provide assistance to persons responsible for science curriculum and instruction, as well as for writers and publishers of instructional materials. It purports to set forth and define the essential ingredients and structure of a K-12 instructional…

The planning guide for developing Adult English as a Second Language Programs focuses on implementing six goals relating to: utilizing community resources, utilizing communication skills, participating in community networks, utilizing occupational advancement opportunities, functioning in multi-cultural life styles, and functioning at individual…

The final report of an 18-month project in University City, Missouri, to develop junior and senior high school components centered on career education, and a guidance and counseling component for both levels is presented. An Alternative High School was established, with students pursuing career education and academic core subjects; career…

Events and movements leading to environmental studies are briefly presented. Some examples of environmental education in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia are cited. (RH)

A scheme that can be used in developing objectives and procedures to insure continuity between the definition of needs and the subsequent solution design. (Author)

In a project designed to improve the recruitment, training and utilization of undergraduate social welfare workers in fourteen of the Southern states an attempt was made to arrive at a better understanding of just what the baccalaureate level social worker was to be. The definition was needed both for setting college curriculum objectives and for…

The focus of this supplement to the Standards for the Approval of Teacher Education Programs in West Virginia is the preparation of specialized educational personnel. Program objectives are described for the following areas--educational audiologist, principal, reading specialist, school business official, school counselor, school psychologist,…

First in a series of articles by the author on the topics of educational accountability, educational change, the academic bureaucracy, and the lack of unity in the profession. (RB)

Article is concerned with examining the process of curriculum development at Keele (Staffordshire, England) and its associated institutions over a period of 20 years and suggests that cooperation and opportunism are dominant themes in what has happened. (Author/MB)