The purpose of the California High School Performance Reports is to provide a means for the public to judge a school's progress towards: (1) implementing the educational reforms outlined in California State Legislature Senate Bill 813; (2) upgrading the quality of its instructional program; and (3) improving student achievement. This paper…

In 1979, the Teachers' Centers Exchange, working through the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, began a program that provided financial awards for the conduct of collaborative research on exemplary teachers' centers practices. From September 1979 through March 1982, 15 teachers' centers participated in 14 research…

Proceedings of a 1980 seminar on university research, sponsored by the Science Council of Canada, are presented. The increasing interest of the Canadian provinces in the direct support of university research was viewed favorably, but the general feeling was that the federal granting agencies must continue to play a leading role. A. N. Bourns…

An interactive research and development (IR&D) project brings together teachers, university researchers, and staff development specialists as a team to identify, research, and disseminate findings from questions of interest to teachers. Six major features of an interactive IR&D project are: (1) teams having at least one teacher, one researcher,…

Research was conducted to identify criteria for successful research and development innovations in vocational education. Sixteen research and development (R&D) impact criteria were identified through a search of three data bases. The central data base consisted of impact studies of 28 selected state-developed and National Center for Research…

A listing of substantial, known adult speech error corpora includes seven major corpora in English, 11 in languages other than English (German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Thai), information on seven collectors of smaller English samples, and two references for anecdotal samples, one in French and one in Welsh. Each major…

The 1985 inventory of research into higher education in Canada provides descriptions of 328 research, innovative, and experimental projects on postsecondary education in Canada. The projects, which are entered in the language in which they were reported (English or French), are grouped under six categories: general; administration, finance and…

Domains of faculty research development are considered, with attention to various scholarly activities such as publishing in journals, editing books/monographs, publishing book reviews, and delivering papers at professional meetings. A cognitive map of faculty development is presented that incorporates findings from the literature on the sociology…

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's (NWREL) Research Evaluation Program provides assistance to educators based on its research, development, testing, and training activities concerning new methodologies for educational evaluation. This report describes the assistance provided to educational practitioners in 1984 through support materials,…

This volume, the first of two, documents a selection of current worldwide research and activities and new developments in the area of distance-taught higher education. An introductory editorial summarizes the current status of distance teaching in higher education and identifies trends drawn from the reports collected. Details of origins, size,…

Intended to help professionals remain knowledgeable about current research in reading and to serve as a relatively accessible bibliographic source of research on a specific topic, this annual report summarizes approximately 1,150 reports of reading research identified between July 1, 1983, and June 30, 1984. The summaries are arranged into six…

This paper reviews the problems of identifying the kinds of risks to which subjects in research projects are exposed, establishes the role of federal funding agencies in risk identification and suggests ways to protect children who are research subjects. The risks cited are primarily psychological, sociological, physiological, and/or academic.…

This fourth annual report of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice summarizes its programs and funding for research, evaluation, and research utilization for fiscal year 1977. Chapter 1 describes research agreements with various organizations to study the subjects of the habitual offender, white-collar crime, the economics…

A sample of 15-year-old children in London were interviewed with regard to their vocational wishes, the reasons for these, their plans for preparatory study or training, and relevant aspects of their school experience. Considerable overlap was found between the constructs underlying occupational wishes and liking or disliking for school subjects,…

This manual describes the program improvement responsibilities of the Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) of South Carolina's Office of Vocational Education. Following the introduction, the organization and functions of the RCU are briefly presented. The remainder of the booklet is comprised of eight short sections, each discussing an RCU function in…