Teachers can take on the additional responsibility of inservice leadership and can be trained in the processes of curriculum development. Through implementation of those procedures, teachers can initiate an ongoing system of needs-based inservice education. Steps in initiating this process include: (1) Teachers take the major responsibility for…

Three papers focusing upon the beliefs and issues confronting professionals concerned with consumer and homemaking education programs are presented. The first paper "Consumer and Homemaking Education Today" (R. Hughes), examines the questions of content and audience from a curriculum development view. The status of programs using…

A project at Bucknell University is described that was designed to: evaluate faculty teaching, conduct faculty seminars and workshops, disseminate sources of information to faculty, provide funds for the support of instructional improvement projects, develop a means of relating the quality of teaching and scholarship to a system of financial and…

The Humanities Enrichment Program (HEP) and The Master Teacher Program (MT) were sponsored by the National Humanities Faculty to improve and encourage humanities instruction. The 40 schools in the program participated in curriculum development workshops, demonstration lessons, and public information meetings. A consultant also contacted local…

A program designed for the achievement of equal educational opportunity in Connecticut's Middletown public schools is presented in this report. The document describes the program's statement of goals, identification of objectives, specification of expected levels of competency for each subject area at each grade and ability level, adoption of…

SUGGESTIONS ARE MADE FOR EVALUATION AND FOR MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF THE FACILITIES OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL IN PROVIDING BETTER THAN AVERAGE STUDENTS WITH CHALLENGING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. THE TERM GIFTED DESCRIBES THE STUDENT WHO IS SUPERIOR IN EITHER INTELLECT, TALENT, SKILLFULNESS, OR LEADERSHIP ABILITY. EACH OF THE TYPES OF GIFTEDNESS HAS…

AN EVALUATION OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM AND THE RELATED PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH WERE PRESENTED. PART 1 COVERED PHASES OF MACHINE AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, A REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE, AND THE MAJOR EXPERIMENT. EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED 14-YEAR-OLDS WERE SELECTED AND DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP CONSISTED…

The report presents evaluation data on the activities of the National Committee for Arts for the Handicapped (NCAH) during the 1977-78 school year. Status of NCAH objectives is detailed for four objectives (sample findings in parentheses): national awareness activities (formation of a National Arts Forum; development of a national training…

This inventory was designed for the use of school superintendents, office administrators, principals, and teachers who are involved with district-wide curricular and instructional improvement in their school systems. It provides opportunity for individual observations, discussion of differences in those observations, and consideration of how…

THIS STUDY INVOLVED (1) THE MODIFICATION OF BIOLOGY CURRICULA FOR USE BY 35 TEACHERS AND 4,264 STUDENTS IN THE SAN ANTONIO HIGH SCHOOLS, (2) THE ORGANIZATION OF A SEMIMONTHLY INSERVICE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM, AND (3) A STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM BASED ON DATA COLLECTED FROM A SAMPLE GROUP OF NINE TEACHERS AND 579 STUDENTS. BIOLOGY…

A three-part evaluation plan is presented for the occupational clusters approach to career orientation project, which attempted to design and field-test a two-semester curriculum package for orienting junior high students to the world of work. Project effectiveness will be estimated at three points in its development. In the laboratory setting…

In order to encourage the professional instructional staff to develop innovative teaching strategies and techniques, the Los Angeles Community College District established an Instructional Development Grant Program (IDG) in 1973. This evaluation is based upon a variety of data sources: campus visits, surveys, telephone interviews, and data…

The purpose of the project was to develop a career continuum, incorporating within the regular school curriculum the world of work, for grades K-10, which would be adaptable to the total South-Western City School District. It was intended that the program would culminate with the grade 11 and 12 program already in existence. The developed…

The final report evaluates the activities of the first nine weeks of a project designed to develop a curriculum guide for a school-model store at a North Dakota high school. The program combines the favorable aspects of both the school store and the model store, providing "live" experiences as well as simulated ones. The Distributive…