The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible role of adult education in nation-building. Nation-building was defined as a process of building group cohesion and group loyalty for the purposes of domestic planning and international representation. Models were designed for the purpose of analyzing the function of adult education in…

This study was designed to develop a conceptual framework or model for the measurement of the professional orientation of rehabilitation counselors. The four orientations identified were: (1) concern for the counselor-client relationship, (2) concern for the client's situation, (3) concern for both relationship and situation or bipolar, and (4)…

This report provides some basic guidelines for planning and establishing a consortium. Systems analysis was used to study 5 consortia, determine their objectives, identify applicable system variables, and ascertain the contribution each variable must make to achieve organizational objectives. The consortia were the Central States College…

This paper presents a role model for the elementary school counselor. For purposes of this role model, elementary school guidance is viewed as both a concept (philosophy) and as a process (implementation). The process is the action or the implementation by which the concept or philosophy is realized. The aspect of the process which deals with…

The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) was initiated to determine the cost effectiveness of providing comprehensive diagnostic and educational services for 285 very young children and their parents. The primary goal of the program is to bring the family, the school, and the medical profession into a working relationship early in the child's…

A needs assessment is a procedure or process that identifies the perceived or expressed needs of a school district. The process involves the use of various measurements and activities to obtain the data needed to define the gap between "what is" and "what should be." This handbook reviews four such processes or models for…

This study focused on the development of an organizational model for an inservice training program for teachers of disadvantaged adults in a central Georgia school system, with emphasis on the importance of understanding the motives or causal factors that lead to participation. Information was obtained from teachers and students about factors that…

This document describes a model for regional training of Head Start personnel. It reports on a training symposium convened to clarify the objectives and methods involved in Head Start's commitment to serving handicapped children. Participants were divided into small groups and were encouraged to actively discuss, question, and share their…

The Urban Educational Researchers' Training Institute (UERTI) was designed to train school personnel in the process of educational research, design, evaluation, and dissemination. Its objectives were: (a) to test an inservice training model in educational research and evaluation, (b) to provide intensive research experiences for persons employed…

An effort to develop a classification of various kinds of disadvantegement is aimed at the efficiency that can be gained by providing only those services to those clients who can use them in order to increase their chances of successful placement. The report details some of the elements of the recommended approach: analysis of manpower situations…

The second preliminary report on the development and planning for a community college to serve the Fairbanks area covers the following topics: (1) events since the first preliminary report, (2) meetings with community groups, (3) recommendations and concerns of university faculty, (4) the population to be served by the community college, (5) the…

This document is a report of a Conference on Alternative Designs for World Universities. Emphasis is placed on the sponsors; preparatory work; the conference format; alternative designs for world universities: operative designs and projected designs; the dialects of world universities; and the conference statement of purpose. A listing of…

This document stresses the increasing awareness in higher education of the impact student/environment transactions have upon the quality of educational life and details a model and design process for creating a better fit between educational environments and students. The ecosystem model uses an interdisciplinary approach for the make-up of its…

Career decision-making, a recently initiated program now in its design and engineering state, is described. Early interaction between the product development process and the evaluation process has served several purposes. Evaluation specialists have contributed information to be used in program development as well as tentative plans for summative…

The purpose of this study was to design a comprehensive and effective model for a secondary reading syllabus to be used in the educational institutions as controlled by the culturally different community. The model was designed on the basis of recommendations of experts representing the varying points of view of philosophy, sociology, psychology,…