To test the feasibility of using case study techniques in national evaluations, the case study approach was used to study the experiences of a boy and a girl in each of eight Head Start curricular models and two children in a classroom not under the sponsorship of a program developer. Teachers and mothers were also interviewed. The purpose of the…

The possibility that direct participation by faculty in projects to revise curricula and create new instructional media would also generate a more systematic way of thinking about teaching was studied through administration of a questionnaire to faculty at Illinois State University who had received an instructional development program grant. Of…

This pamphlet presents a description of two interrelated Swedish research projects both of which studied the effects of preschool programs on young children. The first project, a traditional preschool curriculum, is examined in terms of Weikart's scheme for preschool curriculum models. The evaluation procedure involved a comparison of 130…