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Carpenter-Huffman, P.; And Others – 1974
This book examines the process of change in American public education, focusing in particular on various experiments in performance contracting that were conducted between 1969 and 1973. Chapter 1 briefly reviews the process of change in education and describes the performance contracting concept and the ways its advocates expected it to overcome…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Download full textBoston State Coll., MA. – 1974
The Unified Studies Program began at Boston State College in September of 1974. Its model is based on team-teaching, learning contracts, small interdisciplinary seminars, and other open-classroom and unified educational learning/teaching techniques. Boston State College had been compelled to shift its academic assumptions because of financial…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Educational Change, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
McPhail, Augustine H. – 1972
This is a paper that presents a positive case for the adoption of accountability programs. A brief history of accountability is given. Some important terms relative to accountability are defined. They are: accountability, independent educational accomplishment audit, performance contracting, and educational engineering. Ways in which the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Conference Reports, Educational Change
