General development, structure, and uses of a computerized impact projection model, the North Dakota Regional Environmental Assessment Program (REAP) Economic-Demographic Assessment Model, were studied not only to describe a model developed to meet informational needs of local decision makers (especially in a rural area undergoing development),…

OUR NATION IS PLAGUED WITH RURAL POVERTY EXTENDING THROUGH MOST AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY AND ENCOMPASSING SOME 14 MILLION RURAL PERSONS. THIS TOTAL NUMBER WOULD BE EVEN LARGER IF SO MANY RURAL PERSONS HAD NOT MIGRATED INTO THE URBAN AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY. THE RURAL POOR POPULATION IS CHARACTERIZED BY--LOW INCOME, A HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (4 PERCENT…

This document is the first part of a 3-part report on the development of a generic State Educational Agency Data Analysis Plan. It contains an overview of the entire effort and the resulting products and discusses how these products can be used by State education agencies (SEAs) as a model for their own development of specific data analysis plans.…

Teachers do not have to go very far to teach their students about technology education. There are examples right there in the home to keep them and their students quite busy. Many everyday products contain wonderfully fascinating stories and histories of development and invention to keep students totally intrigued. In this article, the author…

This twenty-seventh World Bank Atlas presents key social and economic information for every country on the globe organized under three headings, People, Economy, and Environment. The emphasis is on how these themes are important in the development process. A new addition is that of a new measure of GNP per capita converted at purchasing power…

Gives brief sketch of development of "social indicators movement" during past decade, elucidates some conceptual and theoretical issues surrounding the social indicators notion, and places these issues within context of measurement and construction of theories of social change, also illustrating some ways which social indicators relate to social…

This report describes adolescence research supported by member agencies. It reviews the history, operational structure and activities for the year and describes the new theme, Youth Development. The combined research of all the agencies is presented, including the number of projects and the amount of funding in selected categories. The appendices…

Regional laboratories have been charged with serving as the link between so-called educational "research" and educational "practice," a link loosely known as "development." Research generates development and development generates research, with both leading to continued reduction of uncertainty, i.e., effort is…

This report presents data in tabulated form. The survey covered all such institutions in the country known or believed to have allocated at least $100,000 to intramural R&D performance, and contains data on scientists, engineers, and technicians employed, and on current and capital expenditures associated with the conduct of research and…

This paper describes the research and development (R & D) strategy employed in a major chemical manufacturing corporation and compares the strategy to that which is generally used in educational R & D efforts. The paper underscores development practices in the chemical industry as they relate to devleopment activities in education. Some of the…

This document, 10th in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook providing training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of evaluating instructional materials. The document is organized according to the three sequential steps involved in performing the task. Step 1 is…

This document is one part of a critique series that deals with the development and evaluation of course goals in six subject matter areas for grades K-12. The series provides an initial pool of course-level goals that are expected to be of considerable value in assisting educators with goal definition related to curriculum planning and…

The Developer's Manual No. 3 is part of a set of 21 manuals (AA 001 009-001 029) used in APEX (Air Pollution Exercise), a computerized college and professional level "real world" game simulation of a community with urban and rural problems, industrial activities, and air pollution difficulties. The first two sections, which are the same in each of…

The author expresses the need for operationally-defined theoretical models so that an explicit value position can be taken against which the work could be evaluated. The primary response to this need has emerged as an operationally-defined theory of the evolution of social-psychological "self" which may occur in an individual, and an analysis of…

Describes the history of science education in the People's Republic of China since the 1950s, and discusses the new Chinese emphasis on "theory" and "expertness" to produce the scientists necessary for China's development and modernization. (GA)