Since its inception in 2002, the National Center for Education Research (NCER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has funded over 700 education research grants and over 60 education training grants. The research grants have supported exploratory research to build theory or generate hypotheses on factors that may affect educational…

A summary of the first 18 months of operation of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States' Educational Technology Demonstration (renamed Satellite Technology Demonstration after May 1973) details the history of the demonstration and explains the rationale for the demonstration's evaluation planning and historical analysis. The report concludes with…

Purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of broadcast television as a drug education tool, and to test the effect of group viewing as a component of a positive learning environment for instructional television. Learning was measured in terms of information acquisition and in terms of attitude change. (Author)

Although there is great interest, and considerable investment, in adopting technology within Higher Education, it is less clear what this change means to the people who implement or experience it. Presently, there is no consistent framework used to study and explain this phenomenon. In this paper, we propose a framework that can structure and…

The 1968 directory of Federal training and education programs has been compiled to encourage wider use of findings by other agencies, to avoid duplication of research efforts, and to stimulate experimentation needed to keep pace with technological progress. Federal agencies report both completed and in-progress studies and include such agencies as…

The final report describes a project at the Florida State University at the end of its third year and an assessment of the degree to which project goals were attained. The project goals were to: (1) establish mastery standards for degree programs; (2) create open, time-variable educational programs; (3) verify that the program product can serve as…

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is pleased to release its fifth annual National Trends Report on the use of federal funds to support educational technology. This report documents findings from Round 5 (FY 06) of the No Child Left Behind, Title II, Part D, Enhancing Education Through Technology (NCLB IID) program. The…

This directory contains abstracts of approximately 250 projects funded by the Division of Innovation and Development of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, through September 1995. Abstracts typically provide the following information: title; principal investigator name, address, and telephone number; grant number; beginning and ending…

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is pleased to release its fourth annual National Trends Report on the use of federal funds to support educational technology. This report documents findings from Round 4 (FY 05) of the No Child Left Behind, Title II Part D, Enhancing Education Through Technology (NCLB II D) program.…