The staff college approach to senior management education derived its impetus from Britain. It was drawn on by other countries on their own initiative in the light of their assessment of needs. It has proven economical to transplant and can be sensitively adjusted to national needs and the local culture. The first part of this document describes…

This study described and evaluated a 1969 community development training seminar in the province of Quebec held by the Institute Cooperatif Desjardin, including workshops on such topics as community development ("animation"), economic development, and program planning and administration. Concentrating on the nature and causes of the…

To evaluate a specific program means to compare it against a standard that specifies what the program should be like at a specific time. Standards may be constructed in three ways: surface standards force the definition into a model shaped by scientific procedure; deep standards include information on the inputs, processes, and outputs for each…

Shrinking resources were a primary reason for the development of systematic program evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, beginning in 1971. The first three programs in the evaluation cycle were also scheduled for accreditation visits by their respective professional associations. Although the three programs are generally…

The following six ideas relating to the work of the Cooperative Extension Service are presented: (1) Giving instruction is the Service's major function; (2) Tyler's curriculum and instruction principles are a good guide in developing the instructional function of the organization; (3) Instruction is the principle tool used in influencing behavior…

PAPERS BY 11 EXTENSION EDUCATORS DISCUSS CRITERIA AND STANDARDS IN VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION, THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF ART EXTENSION PROGRAMS, TRAINING PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS FOR EDUCATORS, TOPICS CALLING FOR RESEARCH (READINESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT, METHODOLOGY, PROGRAM EVALUATION, AND ADULT CHARACTERISTICS AS MANIFESTED IN ART ACTIVITIES),…

The development of a pre-service training program over a three-year period for faculty at Burlington County College, New Jersey is discussed. Burlington County College, which began operation in the Fall of 1969, emphasizes various modes of instruction, with the long-range goal of facilitating individualized instruction. Summaries of six revisions…

This booklet explains how to obtain and best use the federally funded inservice teacher services provided by the Division of Continuing Education at Trenton State College. The cost of the service for public schools is specified along with lists of the inservice programs available and their objectives. This pamphlet will prove useful for both…

The aim of this document is to provide an alternative for those teacher educators who are committed to the development of professional competence in teaching but who find the present Competency/Performance Based Teacher Education (C/PBTE) approach to be unsatisfactory in certain significant respects. It is proposed to replace the popularized…

With the support of a planning grant from the National Library of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Information and Library Science (SILS), in collaboration with the UNC Health Sciences Library and the Program in Medical Informatics, evaluated five curricular models designed to improve education for health…

An intervention is described which had the twofold aims of increasing the literacy teaching skills of teachers and raising the achievement in Key Stage 1 national tests of selected groups of Year 2 children. The theoretical framework for the intervention is discussed. The training course for and delivery and success of the intervention are…

A problem-based professional education curriculum in science and technology, designed to promote professional competence in graduates, is exemplified in Australia's University of Newcastle program. (MSE)

A central source for a diverse and scattered body of practice and knowledge is provided in this annotated resource book for management educators and management development students and practitioners. Articles, books, monographs, and chapters have been briefly summarized into the following chapters: Management Education: Objectives and Background;…

A comprehensive report on the 82 Office of Education programs is provided in this evaluation of the programs for fiscal year 1972. The status of the evaluation function itself is briefly discussed; a general overview is made of the effectiveness of the Office of Education programs; the highlights of new findings from recent evaluation studies are…

Boston College's Management Development Program, which provides 12 weeks of formal management education, is described, and examples and models of materials are presented. Attention is directed to program planning, design, and results; problems encountered; and issues pertaining to advanced-level management development, particularly as it relates…