To deal with questions arising from the increased use of paraprofessionals a project was initiated entitled A Task Analysis System for Educational Personnel Development." (MB)

Teacher involvement in decision making at the secondary school level was studied to analyze when, to what extent, and in which issues teachers should be involved. Implications which may benefit school administrators are discussed. (DF)

Described Indiana University's new Division of Teacher Education. (RK)

Focus of this study of leadership is the West Philadelphia Community Free School designed as an alternative within public school education in one of Philadelphia's predominantly black school districts. (Authors/MB)

Zaire has one of the highest attrition rates in Africa--about 90 percent of the students who begin seventh grade never receive twelfth grade diplomas. This study demonstrates that administration policy and social environment of schools, as well as student ability and performance, may account for high failure rate. (RW)

One goal of the May 1968 reorganization of the Columbus Public School System, was to provide for a system capability in evaluation and research. (Author/MB)

A study of three schools is presented. The causes of internal conflicts which often lead to the demise of such schools are discussed. Article concludes that despite their transient nature, these schools serve an important purpose, both as legitimate educational alternatives and as examples of new methods for existing schools. (RW)

Using ethnographic methods, this study looked at a student-teaching program over a three-year period, focusing on administrative and organizational processes. The two hypotheses concerned behavior of loosely coupled organizations. Results are presented and recommendations made. (Author/MT)

Findings from a study of 42 Israeli elementary schools indicate that schools which adopted technological innovation (open education) were characterized by significantly more of the organizational processes associated with the self-renewing school than when schools which adopted managerial (the management team) or multilevel (the management team…

This study examined whether selected organizational factors in educational organizations are related to administrators' (N=140) confidence in teachers, beliefs about teachers' work autonomy, and status deference. The logic of confidence concept, a belief that educators are performing appropriately, is discussed and defined operationally in one of…

Three categories of structural characteristics (career processes, role relationships, organizational context) associated with the principal's role shape behavior in ways that restrain the rate at which principals initiate change. (IAH)

Reports on a study of the transition effects of grade-level organization on student achievement as schools transitioned from self-contained to departmentalized classes. Reading, math, and social studies achievement scores of five equated rural school districts with K-4 through K-8 organization were compared. Results noted a decline in achievement…

Reports from the nine research and development centers funded by the United States Office of Education provide a self-assessment of the centers from the standpoint of their respective goals, the methods used in pursuing these goals, estimates of their success to date, and estimates of their projected success. Discussion of organizational aspects…

This article defines two approaches to pupil control--custodial and humanistic--and reports results of an investigation of the relationship between teacher control ideology and behavior and their influence on quality of life for students. Subjects were 239 elementary and secondary teachers and their students from 5 school districts. (IAH)

For this study, middle-school teachers, students, and principals completed surveys on organizational climate, quality of life, and use of recommended middle-school practices. Student attitudes toward school life were only slightly affected by openness in faculty relationships; they were more affected by classroom organization and use of accepted…