This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, and initiated and implemented in the four nations of the United Kingdom: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By looking at the…

The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a private, nonprofit organization with over 50 years' experience in the application of research on language and culture to educational and societal concerns. CAL carries out its mission to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture by engaging in a variety of projects in…

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation extended grants to three educational organizations working to develop or enhance competency-based approaches in large, urbanized school systems. The grant initiative, called Project Mastery, funded the development of technology-enhanced tools, including curriculum materials and online learning…

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency-based education initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth. Competency-based education meets students where they are academically, provides students with opportunities for choice, and awards…

Discusses: (1) a comparative study on managing population education programs; (2) a South Pacific workshop in which training materials on sex education, family life education, and nutrition-oriented mixed gardening were developed; and (3) a workshop on evaluative research, the focus of national population education programs in Asia. (JN)

Presented is a checklist for assessing a school's environmental education (EE) program. Areas addressed include the administration, instructional activities, the school system, general considerations, material development, program implementation, and evaluation. Answers to questions in these categories become a foundation for working toward…

The two major goals established for the Special Office for the Visually Impaired (SOVI) were to increase the numbers and varieties of materials available for education of the visually handicapped and to provide materials information input to the National Instructional Materials Information System (NIMIS). These goals were supplemented by two…

The Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired has adapted media products on decision making and concept development and has designed two new products, a multimedia package on causality and one on voting for high schoolers. Products are evaluated by a field test network of 800 teachers and 146 schools. (CL)

Formative evaluation of instructional materials may not be time efficient or cost effective. Scriven's definition of formative evaluation, used in this paper, applies to the assessment and refinement of instructional materials still under development. Implementation of formative evaluation techniques does not seem to yield significant improvement…

Described is the development of procedures for standardizing, on a district-wide basis, the administration of special education programs. It is explained that the project required three phases: first, development of a manual which set forth those administrative procedures which schools would follow; second, implementation of the procedures…

The aim of the ITMA Project is to establish research and development activities in parallel with the in-service and information services within the regional and national framework of the Microelectronics Education Programme. The major focus of the project is on the potential roles of the microcomputer in educational settings. (Author/JN)

This manual provides practical examples of strategies, approaches, and materials for integrating population education into various developmental programs. It also serves as a reference for use by field workers in planning, implementing, and evaluating out-of-school population education programs. The examples of curricula, materials, and evaluation…

This course in language curriculum development has five units: (1) Language situations and policies in Africa; (2) Preparing objectives for language curriculum development; (3) Selecting and preparing materials for language curriculum development; (4) Implementing language curriculum programmes; and (5) Evaluation and renewing language curriculum…

Presented are materials for evaluating vocational-occupational-technical higher education programs for handicapped students who are mainstreamed alongside non-handicapped students. Included are sample materials designed to implement the theory and principles discussed in a previous work on evaluating occupational programs for the handicapped. The…

Major objectives of the Cooperative Project in Native American Development during the 1976-77 school year were: development of 8 Michigan Woodland Indian Social Studies-Language Arts curriculum packages relevant to the needs of American Indian students (K-8) in 3 Michigan school districts; and development of a series of monthly cultural enrichment…