An 8-week summer institute at the State College of Iowa in 1966 provided intensive training in educational research for 26 public school personnel. Participants had been assigned research responsibilities in their local districts for the coming year, so a seminar in educational research problems concentrated on practical planning and analysis of…

Thirty-six public school teachers and administrators completed an intensive 8-week summer institute held at Eastern Michigan University in 1966 to develop greater competencies in educational research and evaluative efforts on the local school level. The program included course work in statistics, design and utilization of behavioral science…

An 8-week summer institute designed to train 26 public school persons as research workers for their local school districts was conducted at the University of Florida in 1966. A year-long followup consisted of 1 two-day and 4 one-day seminars to discuss and evaluate progress on research under way. Institute courses included: (1) research techniques…

Thirty Texas public school curriculum personnel participated in a 9-week summer research training institute at North Texas State University in 1966. Courses offered were:(1) problem identification in curriculum revision, (2) research methods and design, and (3) evaluative procedures. Several activities were designed to familiarize students with…

A 1-year postdoctoral training program in instructional research was conceived and implemented by the staff of Teaching Research, a Division of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Five educational administrators were selected as resident fellows in the program designed to increase the number of educational researchers who can address…

Fourteen superior undergraduates with interest in and potential for educational research were chosen to participate in a 1-year undergraduate training program designed to provide them with an introduction to specialization in educational research. During their senior year they participated in an intensive 11-week summer session, and weekly…

A 1-year program was aimed at training 9 undergraduate students in techniques of social research and statistics as they apply to the field of education. During the second semester of their junior year trainees took a 4-credit-hour course in methods of social research and participated in a 2-credit project involving lectures, conferences, field…

Three college professors of education were selected as follows in a 1-year postdoctoral training program at Educational Testing Service (ETS). The program, designed to improve their capabilities to conduct sound educational research and to train others in research and procedures, was based on the assumption that the best training for research is…

A 5-week intensive training institute was conducted for 13 public school administrators who have research responsibilities under Title I and Title III projects. The program focused on research methodology and design, statistical procedures, evaluation of research, and proposal writing. The general format was a lecture or presentation period…

A 4-day training project for 51 music education professors was designed to increase their orientation toward systematic research, to improve their competence to train doctoral candidates as systematic researchers, and to improve their own competency in conducting research. Opportunities for small-group activities were interspersed with large-group…

Three postdoctoral fellows completed a 38-week training program designed to familiarize scientists already experienced in educational research with the techniques of designing and executing a large-scale, long-range educational research project. The program was conducted by the research staff of Project TALENT, a project of the Institute for…

The purpose of an 8-week summer training institute was to provide 25 competent professional school personnel the necessary methodological skills to initiate, conduct, and report experiments on school learning and instruction. All trainees held administrative posts with responsibilities for curriculum research and development and/or instruction. A…

Major objectives of a 1-trimester research training project were (1) to introduce outstanding undergraduates in the behavioral and social sciences to educational research and (2) to introduce outstanding undergraduates currently preparing for the teaching profession to the field of educational research as a possible future career. Approximately…

A 36-week pilot training program for 20 outstanding undergraduates in education and in the behavioral and social sciences was conducted in 1966. It was designed to assist students (1) to develop basic competencies in measurement techniques and statistical research designs appropriate to educational research, (2) to engage in individual study in…

This document chronicles the experience of the National Training Institute (NTI) for Community Youth Work and four of its Building Exemplary Systems for Training Youth Workers (BEST) affiliates in establishing youth development practitioner apprenticeship (YDPA) programs. Part 1 describes the work of NTI and BEST intermediary organizations to lay…