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Matthews, Mildred, Ed. – 1969
With greater emphasis being placed on vocational and technical education, there is an increasing demand for people to fill leadership roles at the local, state, and national levels of supervision. This demand prompted the establishment of an 8-day leadership institute for 20 western states. Nationally recognized experts participated in the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Feedback, Institutes (Training Programs), Leadership
1966
The National University Extension Association was planning to conduct nine regional training institutes of four weeks each during August, 1966, for 1,060 teacher trainers in adult basic education programs. The institutes were to be operated under Title II B of the Economic Opportunity Act. In this first progress report, information is provided on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Budgets, College Credits, Curriculum Guides
San Jose State Coll., CA. – 1968
This descriptive and evaluative report covers a National Defense Education Act, Title XI, summer institute which was attended by 24 industrial arts teachers, supervisors, and teacher educators from 15 states. The objectives of the institute were to teach information about industrial materials and to allow participants to develop instructional and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Media, Industrial Arts, Inservice Teacher Education
Crouch, J. Page – 1968
This study was conducted to ascertain the impact on the subsequent professional practices of institute directors and participants and to collect the opinions of these people regarding instruction, organization and administration of the 29 institutes. Mailed questionnaires were returned by 28 directors and 671 participants. Findings included: (1)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Industrial Arts, Institutes (Training Programs)
Linn, Elizabeth M.; And Others – 1968
Five dentists, 17 dental assistants, and three dental hygienists participated in the dental assistant teacher training institute held at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 25 to July 21, 1967. Curriculum objectives were based upon analysis of the job of the dental assisting instructor; the following units were chosen to meet the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Course Content, Dental Assistants, Institutes (Training Programs)
Miller, Aaron J.; And Others – 1968
The four 1967 institutes were coordinated through a consortium approach wherein the Center for Vocational and Technical Education, the Ohio State University served as the coordinating agency for designing the program, preparing staff, evaluating the program, writing the final report, disseminating information, and following up participants. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Institutes (Training Programs), Leadership Training
Merrimack Education Center, Chelmsford, MA. – 1976
Findings of the one-year evaluation of Massachusetts Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act innovative projects covering the period from July, 1975 through June, 1976 are outlined in this summary. The formative stages of evaluation are viewed from two perspectives: project strategy designs and project directors' change processes. The…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Diffusion, Educational Innovation
Sloane, Martin E., Ed. – 1973
In general, civil rights staff in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have agreed that Title IV, 1964 Civil Rights Act grants should support Title VI enforcement efforts by providing a carrot of Title IV money to complement the stick of Title VI enforcement. How best to utilize Title IV grants for this purpose, however, has been the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Desegregation Methods, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
VAN TESLAAR, A.P. – 1967
THE EUROPEAN COORDINATOR AND RESIDENT CO-DIRECTOR OF THE MANNHEIM-HEIDELBERG BRANCH OF THE SUMMER 1966 LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN FRANCE AND GERMANY PREPARED THIS EVALUATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL VENTURE. DESIGNED TO ANALYZE THE INNOVATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE 1966 INSTITUTE WITH THE IDEA OF STRENGTHENING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS AND SIMILAR PROGRAMS, THE…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Education, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Evans, Rupert N., Ed.; Terry, David R., Ed. – 1971
A 4-day institute attended by 21 persons representing vocational education, general education, and state and federal government was held to review the state of the art in vocational teacher education. Discussion activities centered around state of the art papers, and this book contains these chapters based on revisions of the major papers: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Education, Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Peatling, John H. – 1969
Development of an evaluation instrument for the church sponsored Community Change Training Institute (CCTI) resulted in a pre-post test instrument involving measures of meaning, vocabulary, involvement in community action, and personality. Fisher's technique computed the pre-post scores of 108 persons in CCTI groups in Missouri, Ohio, and Hawaii.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Church Workers, Community Action, Community Change
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1966
IN THE FIRST OF THE THREE SECTIONS OF THIS EVALUATION REPORT, GENERAL INFORMATION IS PRESENTED UNDER THE FOLLOWING RUBRICS--(1) OPERATION AND SERVICES, (2) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, (3) EVALUATION, (4) MAJOR PROBLEMS AREAS OF STATE ADMINISTRATION, (5) IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 205 (A) OF TITLE I, (6) COORDINATION WITH COMMUNITY ACTION…
Descriptors: Achievement, Annual Reports, Community Action, Compensatory Education
Stake, Robert E.; Gjerde, Craig – 1975
This evaluation of the Twin City Institute for Talented Youth, a summer program for gifted students in grades 9 through 12, consists of two parts: a description of the program; and the evaluators' assessments, including advocate and adversary reports. Achievement tests were not used for evaluation. Evaluative comments follow each segment of the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Development, Course Descriptions, Creative Development
MACK, LYNN; AND OTHERS – 1967
AS A CONTINUATION OF A 1966 PROJECT, THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ASSOCIATION (NUEA), UNDER A GRANT FROM THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION (USOE), CONDUCTED 20 REGIONAL ADULT BASIC EDUCATION TRAINING INSTITUTES IN THE SUMMER OF 1967. THREE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OVER--AN ACCELERATED NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR PREPARATION OF TEACHERS FOR…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Finance, Educational Technology, Educationally Disadvantaged
HAMANN, ALBERT D. – 1967
THIS FOUR-WEEK COURSE, DEVELOPED AND ADMINISTERED BY THE INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, LAW ENFORCEMENT EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY EXTENSION, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, IS DESIGNED TO PREPARE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO BE INSTRUCTORS AND TRAINING OFFICERS, TO UPGRADE EXISTING INSTRUCTORS, AND TO ENABLE TRAINING OFFICERS TO GIVE EFFECTIVE…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Course Descriptions, Educational Resources, Evaluation Methods