The faculty of a middle school has constructed a model of a reading program, using components of other programs at other grade levels. The elements of the model include basal reading, teaching reading in the content areas, and individualized reading. The strengths of these components depend on teachers' understanding of learning theory and…

SUPERVISION, BECAUSE IT COVERS A MULTIPLICITY OF TASKS PERFORMED IN NO FIXED LOCUS, ITS ALMOST IMMUNE TO SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION. ELABORATE DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES ARE NEEDED (POSSIBLY REPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION STUDIES) ON SUCH TOPICS AS RESISTANCE TO CHANGE AND SUPERVISOR-SUPERVISOR RELATIONSHIPS. THEORETICAL MODELS AND CONCEPTS WHICH…

The job of the 4-H extension agent involves fairly complex levels of performance. The curriculum for the extension agent program should produce youth workers who have the ability to perform competently and who possess the basic concepts and values required to function effectively. Performance objectives were written for each competency considered…

Following an overview of the need for evaluation training, the Analysis of Evaluation Training Materials Project is described and the coverage, methodology, and usability of materials available for training educational personnel in evaluation skills are considered. Problem areas in evaluation, identified by the National Institute of Education…

A 4-week institute to prepare vocational educators in leadership positions for a change agent role in vocational education curriculum development was held on the Oregon State University campus from June 19 to July 14, 1967. A broad-based approach to the curriculum process was used, implementing an organic curriculum concept and behavioral…

After the historical background and the contemporary issues of freshman composition program evaluation are discussed in this document, six models for composition instruction are described (grammar and composition, linguistics, literary, essay, radical, and editing), and taxonomies for each model are outlined. These taxonomies are compared to data…

This document results from a conference designed to compel participants to identify and develop curriculum content from the Chicano viewpoint. The speakers provide alternative perspectives for developing the desired content. Issues discussed are: an action model for education, the role of linguistics in shaping the individual from his personality…

In an effort to develop an instructional model for a small, rural high school of 200 or less in compliance with the Illinois State Guidelines, the Guidelines were analyzed and small-school educational literature on models and operational instructional schemes were reviewed. The criteria employed in model development were: (1) Can flexibility be…

The publication of suggested curriculum development activities, developed for the Iowa exemplary career education project, outlines the various aspects of suggested staff responsibilities, lists glossary terms, and discusses K-6 career curriculum project objectives. Also included are a checklist of awareness objectives, a possible sequence of…

The purpose of a Capstone Program is to provide an opportunity for an occupationally competent student to complete a baccalaureate degree with no more than two additional years of college. A two-year Capstone Program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale was developed in 1972 to provide occupational graduates from community colleges with…

This study discusses innovation in inservice education and training of teachers (INSET) in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland. The first section deals with the INSET program in relationship to each country's educational system. Section two describes three case studies. They include INSET during a six-month period at a teacher training…

This paper presents a model of an interactive mode for instructional research and development that might yield both curriculum products and scientific knowledge concerning learning and instruction. Curriculum development is discussed as an applied science and as an art, using specific research and development efforts conducted at the Learning…

In the first section of this two-part report, Donald H. Ecroyd discusses a proposed working model for developing speech programs which contains (1) a rationale for speaking and listening instruction at all levels, (2) a diagram of specific objectives and a schematic design for translating these into a speech program, (3) suggestions for classroom…

Review of the literature in counseling, sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior failed to yield a model satisfactory for a comprehensive research framework investigating why people choose different occupations. Rational and irrational occupational decision making models were unsatisfactory in capturing the many dimensions of the…

For a student to acquire the conceptual systems of a discipline, the designer must reflect that structure or analytic network in his curriculum. The four networks identified for music and used in the development of the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Music Program are the variable-value, the whole-part, the process-stage, and the class-member…