Cooperative Extension is a complex organization with a mission to deliver research from the Land-Grant University to all U.S. communities. This qualitative Grounded Theory study investigated State Extension administrators' perspectives on the environmental factor changes facing the organization and their responses to inform the direction for…

Most extension district directors (n=66) who completed the Myers Briggs Type Inventory and Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventories II preferred the integrating style of conflict management. Significant relationships appeared between personality type and management style. Better understanding of types and styles can improve group dynamics, team…

This institute was held at Ohio State University, October 21-November 1, 1968 to fulfill two main purposes: (1) to provide an opportunity for personnel in state departments of vocational education to become knowledgeable in the concepts, methods, and practice of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS), and (2) to test a package of PPBS…

Since this is the only factor study conducted to date on the role of the State Supervisor of Guidances, it should serve as a foundation for similar future studies. (Author)

The article reports research on the development and evaluation of a statewide special education management network in Michigan. (Author/DLS)

Throughout its fifty-year history, the Society of State Directors of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation have been responsive to and have attempted to provide leadership in solving problems related to health, physical education, and recreation. (MB)

A New York State survey, answered by 213 language supervisors, reveals significant trends in foreign language supervision throughout the state. The questionnaire and its answers are provided here, and include the following topics: official title; actual function; presence of other evaluators; number of schools and teachers supervised; teaching…

An overall view of the role of the state foreign language supervisor is developed in this report. The function of the position is examined from the local, state, and national levels. The present role of the supervisor at the statewide level is examined from the point of view of (1) chief functions, (2) liaison activities, (3) teacher education,…

The University of Florida/Florida State University's Center for State and Regional Leadership for Two-Year Colleges has a special fellowship program for preservice and inservice preparation of State-level personnel. The new State director for Wyoming participated in the program, and his impressions and evaluation of it are reported here. Following…

To describe the information-seeking behavior of local administrators, teacher educators, state directors, and state supervisors of vocational education, data from four previous studies were examined and user profiles were prepared for each of the four groups. The profiles contained information describing these eight dimensions of information…

This volume contains the recommendations for improving English supervision which were formulated at the USOE Conference of Supervisors of English. James R. Squire discusses the present state of supervisory procedures and inservice teacher education, and Helen F. Olson reports the findings of the 1962 National Council of Teachers of English Survey…

Role theory concepts were employed to define substantive areas of interactions between vocational teachers, state supervisory personnel, and local school administrators, define potential and actual role conflicts for vocational teachers arising from these interactions, and assess the impact of perceived conflict upon vocational teacher job…

This study attempts to determine and compare the opinions of basic business authorities, state supervisors of business education, and high school basic business teachers regarding controversies related to the secondary school courses of general business and consumer education. (Author/CT)

A survey form, used in a recent survey to determine what issues or dilemmas are important to school supervisors today, was used in a similar survey conducted to determine the concerns of second language supervisors in New York State. Supervisors were asked to rank order five issues which they considered to be the most important out of 17, and to…