Examines 10 major conclusions summarizing the experience of one regional educational laboratory director and pertaining to the potential of educational research and development as a means of improving education. (RAO)

This document reviews the development strategies of the Far West Consortium for development, dissemination, and evaluation (D,D&E) training. These strategies concerned three areas: 1) cooperating institutions, 2) system development approaches, and 3) functional context programming. To develop the strengths of several agencies, a consortium of…

This report presents an overview of the Oregon Studies in educational research, development, diffusion and evaluation (RDD&E). Five major classes of information were sought: a) knowledge about the area from others who had done previous work in this field, b) conceptual views and tentative maps of the structure and nature of the domain, c) a…

As one of its institutional missions, the P.K. Yonge Laboratory School at the University of Florida focuses on the problem of utilization of research and development for the improvement of instruction. In an effort to reduce the time lag between the discovery of new information and the general adoption of practices based on that information, the…

In 1965, the faculty and administration of the College of Marin formed a committee on instructional research and development to encourage active experimentation in this vital educational area. This document includes: (1) the initial precepts and organization of the committee; (2) a style for the budget and finance of research and development…

In the third of four articles concentrating on six basic weaknesses in campus-based teacher education programs, the problems of inadequate research and development activities and ineffective admissions standards are discussed. (CJ)

This directory lists the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of 2,418 organizations and organizational units in the United States that perform research activities related to education. The data were collected through the American Registry of Research and Research-Related Organizations in Education project (ARROE). If provided by an…

To indicate the effects on learning of individualized instruction and motivation, the results of two controlled experiments conducted in two Janesville, Wisconsin, elementary schools during the 1966-67 school year are reported. In an experiment comparing three approaches to spelling instruction at the sixth grade level, large gains were noted for…

Essays on the present and future states of research and development (R&D) units in colleges and universities are collected. The essays served as discussion papers for an annual meeting of heads of educational R&D units in Australia and New Zealand. "The Political Situation of Teaching-Research Units," by Terry Hore, encourages…