A report is presented of a year-long period of furnishing information to elementary schools on research findings and products related to the improvement of basic skills. Particular empirical findings are not analyzed; rather, an integrated impression of the success or failure of research utilization by schools is conveyed. The outcomes of research…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of the Instructional Improvement Committee's (IIC) involvement in decision making, the representation of teachers on the IIC, and the effectiveness of the Instruction and Research (I&R) Unit in Individually Guided Education/Multiunit Elementary (IGE/MUS-E) schools. The theoretical base for…

The purpose of this study was to observe and describe the functions, processes, and relationships of shared decision-making in the Instruction and Research (I & R) units of multiunit Individually Guided Education (IGE) elementary schools. Data for the study were gathered through interviews and observations of 16 I & R units at 8 IGE…

This study examines the validity of the assumption that teacher involvement in and satisfaction with decision-making is systematically related to such organizational effectiveness criteria as (a) teacher job satisfaction, (b) student achievement in reading and mathematics, and (c) student affective behavior, in elementary schools that have…

Presented is the final report of a 5 year project to identify effective teaching strategies of 57 speech clinicians who worked with 1108 elementary grade children, originially with articulatory disorders, but who achieved correct articulation performance in spontaneous speech. Explained is a methodology to determine speech clinician and child…

OF THE EIGHT INITIAL EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (R AND I) UNITS, ESTABLISHED IN WISCONSIN SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP AND EXECUTE EXEMPLARY INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE THEM THROUGH A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH, THREE EXPERIMENTS ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT RESULTS. IN ONE, 99 SIXTH-GRADERS RECEIVED THREE TYPES OF SPELLING…

In February 1968, the Social Studies Implementation Project began as a cooperative venture involving twenty-three school districts in metropolitan St. Louis. The overall objective of the project was to operate a model which was designed to overcome the problems of curriculum implementation. Operationally, the project had several objectives: 1) to…

This study was conducted to determine how instructional programming for individual students has been implemented to provide effective learning environments for elementary school students. The focus was on the processes and procedures used to achieve objectives of the Instructional Programming Model (IPM). A related purpose was to study the…

This second volume (SP 001 927 is the first volume) contains a list of 818 educational specifications for the development of a comprehensive program of elementary teacher education, as compiled by a consortium of the 12 State Universities of Ohio with support from several cooperating school districts. An introductory chapter delineates the…

Chapter 1 of this report presents an overview of a project to design an innovative, behaviorally oriented undergraduate and inservice teacher education program for elementary school teachers. Chapter 2 presents the conceptual design for developing the model program, one which incorporates the concept of the multiunit school and individual research…