Committees were used to test the hypothesis that interinstitutional co-operation can facilitate more effective use of instructional media in higher education in the South. The principal areas of concern were (l) administrative arrangements for a regional cooperative program, (2) special problems of curriculum inherent in an interinstitutional…

The major focus of the study was the development of a clear concise description of job tasks of the "educational development officer," a role model of which had been developed and piloted in North Carolina by a governmental research unit, the Junior and Community College Division of the National Laboratory of Higher Education, located in…

Materials contained in this guide were developed as part of the guidance component of a comprehensive program of vocational education for career development (kindergarten through university) and were used in inservice workshops in the Sarasota and Manatee school districts in Florida to train occupational placement specialists in micro-interviewing…

Since the future role played by the school library media center is important to library planners, a Delphi survey questioned school librarians, leaders in the profession, and faculty members in schools with media. Four factors were seen to affect the future of the media center: (1) trends within the next 25 years, (2) innovations needing to be…

The Akron-Summit county Public Schools Job Placement Department utilizes four basic components: data, pre-employment preparation, preparation, placement, and follow-up. The model functions on the basis of broadly drawn and centrally coordinated employment regions or service areas and hence avoids problems which individual school districts…

The report describes revision of the Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHO) course for the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The CSHO's job was analyzed in depth, in accord with OSHA standards, policies, and procedures. A listing of over 1,700 violations of OSHA standards was prepared, and specialists…

The principles of structure and procedure for innovative organizations articulated by both postbureaucratic essayists and the organization theorists of innovation are identified. The conditions necessary to generate innovation--small, collegial, problem-solving groups; autonomy of line professionals; separation of planning from the process of…

A study conducted in 1969 endeavored to measure teacher influence on student use of nonrequired materials in the library. Seventeen students of junior high school level in two mathematics classes served as subjects. As pretest, the use of the library by all pupils was recorded during a test period of six weeks. During the eight week test period,…

As a means of assessing junior and community college teacher-training programs in the United States, the author visited selected universities in Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, New York, California, and Nebraska in 1971. She also met with State and District Junior College Boards in several states. Most of the information was…

This "how-to" book details the practical issues involved in converting from a traditional to a nongraded elementary school. Chapters discuss staff preparation, curriculum reorganization, grouping, use of teacher aides, and team teaching. Included also are chapters on an Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I project, the role of…

A number of characteristics distinguish human relations or sensitivity training from other forms of experience-based education, including learning goals, desired outcomes, and assumptions about the learning process. Although research evidence on the effectiveness of human relations training is ambiguous, due to difficulties of research design and…

Volume I of the Program of Instruction (EA 002 789) contained chapters 1-4. This volume contains chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 5, Group-Functioning, illustrates the flexibility that the Program of Instruction affords the Specialist in Continuing Education in selecting evaluative instruments and training activities. Chapter 6, Operational Design,…

Creating more differentiated, specialized work roles within teaching can be viewed as a response to a structural lag in school systems. Organizationally, differential staffing attempts to correct inefficient use of human resources by providing a more individualized program to maximize the use of teacher talent. This paper discusses aspects of…

A new professional discipline in the area of library media is emerging. This discipline does not merely represent a merger of the fields of librarianship and educational media; it is, rather, a new profession which is concerned with the design, development and analysis of instructional systems through the effective use of the most appropriate…

Nineteen articles by Louis Shores are presented in this volume. These develop the idea of the "generic book" as being the sum total of man's communication possibilities and trace the crusade for media unity which has culminated in the acceptance of the concept of instructional materials, encompassing the narrower concepts of both libraries and…