Any organization with a comprehensive training program has a leadership development curriculum. These programs include everything from conventional classroom learning with guest speakers to high-tech simulations and lavish retreats. There also may be mentorship thrown in, as well as multiple job rotations. Despite the well-rounded curricula, many…

Article provides short descriptions of the impact evaluation of the Schools Council and the Regional Educational Laboratories. The article contends that the way impact evaluation is done depends on key factors, such as the scope of the task, size of the institution, and the methods of government and management. (RB)

Research on the School Health Curriculum Project is analyzed, including research on instrumentation development as well as on research assessing project impact on health knowledge, attitudes, and practices of those students exposed to the project. (JMF)

This paper offers suggestions about facilities to support curriculum development, based on the principles that the motive power for such a development should come primarily from local groups of teachers accessible to one another, and that there should be effective and close collaboration between teachers and all those who are able to offer…

Educational evaluation is ideally much broader than the examination of students' work at stipulated intervals. It addresses the selection of objectives, the methodology, the capability of management, the adequacy of data sources, the resources required, and even the alternative educational purposes that could be served. This study evaluates the…

The purposes of this Newsletter are: to summarize the Consortium's recent experience with the Curriculum Materials Analysis System (CMAS); to report the activities of others using CMAS; and to describe available analyses of curriculum materials, including their prices. Most of the analyses were done by teachers and supervisors in work groups…

Intended as a guide to acquaint interested persons with the facts and developmental efforts surrounding the career education concept, this publication provides: (1) a definition of career education, (2) the goals and objectives of the program, (3) concepts upon which career education is based, (4) suggested action steps for developing a career…

The Massachusetts Vocational Curriculum Resource Center (MVCRC) was started in 1980 to serve as the primary vehicle for providing curriculum development assistance to secondary vocational schools and programs in the state. The aim of the study reported here was to evaluate the MVCRC to determine the extent to which it has met its objectives and…

As appendices to the final report on Project Physics (SE 015 500), this volume includes parts of the original documents concerning the project development. Articles published in the "Physics Teacher" are included in reprint form. Evaluation and research papers along with related materials issued in other publications are grouped into…

This paper outlines procedures for (1) identification and review of curricular materials and programs that can be used for articulating a complete process curriculum, (2) specification of synthesis tasks by which well designed materials can be augmented to be more effective and better articulated for classroom use, (3) development of teacher…

This report analyzes the five year history of the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP). The authors have written from a variety of perspectives explaining how and why certain objectives were realized and others were not. Because their perspectives are different, the authors do not always agree in their interpretations. In the first two…

Fourth in a series of profiles documenting the practices of 24 institutions, this report describes Syracuse University's Center for Instructional Development, which spearheads the campus-wide determination to find better ways of teaching and learning. The Center relies not on hardware but on the force of its ideas and the willingness of the…

This study assesses: (1) immediate and long term academic and personal adjustment effects of the Bereiter-Engelmann preschool program and of the traditional enrichment preschool program, as well as the effects of no preschool experience; (2) effects of the above programs on children at the kindergarten level; (3) interactive effects of each type…

An evaluation was made of four Head Start bilingual/ multicultural curriculum models to assess their effectiveness and impact on children, staff, and parents. Intended as a pre-post design (with 90 children at each of eight Head Start replication sites and with treatment and control groups stratified on the basis of Spanish or English language…