Greater Boston is home to a set of charter schools that are among the most successful in the country in improving student academic skills as measured by state tests. These schools are committed to boosting student outcomes and continuously improving through innovation. Greater Boston is also home to research universities that are exploring how…

Distance education is among the significant fields for the application of educational technology. Distance education in China has gone through three phases, namely: correspondence-based education, radio and TV-based education and online education. This paper was based on educational technology application, and the historical, dialectic and…

This guide is designed to help districts and schools evaluate reform efforts related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), including School Improvement Grants. It includes practical, how-to tips for conducting program evaluations, whether one takes a "do-it-yourself" approach or seeks outside assistance to evaluate reform…

This paper presents the results of research conducted to develop a model or a conceptual framework fo the study of project management in the field of educational research and development. The basic framework incorporates two dimensions; (1) the project and (2) its environment. Four project components; task, temporary management system, project…

The document presents a conceptual framework and program plan for R&D in career education prepared for the National Institute of Education, based on a fundamental premise that R&D requires a focus on operationally definable problems. The focus suggested is the responsiveness of career education to the problems experienced by individuals as they…

A framework is presented for the programming of research within the context of the objectives of the Foundation for Educational Research (SVO) in the Netherlands. The memorandum is divided into three sections. Section one deals with the actual initiative leading to programming. In the second section the framework is sketched in which the…

Information regarding noncredit continuing education offerings for adults was gathered through on-site interviews conducted at ten institutions of higher education. Results are reported in the following areas: administrative structure, the developmental process for noncredit programs, program promotion, program evaluation, relationships between…

THIS WAS ONE OF FOUR SEMINARS CONDUCTED TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. OBJECTIVES WERE TO DEVELOP (1) A CONCEPT OF THE ROLE AND THE ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN STATE PROGRAMS, (2) AN UNDERSTANDING OF A FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR CONDUCTING A PROGRAM OF…

The National Conference on Research was one of nine held to discuss implementation of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. The purpose of this conference was to determine the increasing role and priorities of research in program development and to gather information for a research handbook. Major presentations were: (1) "Past,…

Nine papers illustrate the management considerations that arise in programmatic research and development in education and indicate how these considerations have been handled in one situation. (Author)

This document provides information about the development of a quality control procedure that adds a new capability to program management. The procedure, the Standardized Educational Program Audit (SEPA), is being developed by the Florida Department of Education for use with Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III development projects. This…

This study was designed to discover the extent to which school districts provided inservice education for their secondary school teachers of English from the fall of 1969 through the 1971-72 academic year, to determine if inservice consisted of continuous, process-oriented growth experiences structured primarily to benefit the teaching of English…

This report is addressed principally to college personnel who may have direct program responsibilities or who may otherwise have an impact upon the development of cooperative education. The aim of this report is twofold: first, to describe the research undertaken by the staff of Northeastern University Cooperative Education Research Center…

Phase 2 of the study of the Wisconsin Elementary Teacher Education Project evaluates the development, operation, and transfer feasibility of the proposed program (ED 036 678). It is organized in four major parts. Part 1 includes the introduction, a description of the total format and statements of individual program elements--communications,…

A history of Canada's Atlantic Institute of Education (AIE) is given, including a description of the social environment that created the need for such an institution. Educational reform programs for teacher education, special education, and counselor education sponsored by AIE are described. The central use of educational research in AIE programs…