The videodisc, audiodisc, overlapping instruction, mapping, adaptive testing strategies, intricate instructional branching, and complex media selection models are common expectations for quality courseware today. A two team development structure, consisting of an instructional development team and a test development team, is proposed. This paper…

The Austin Independent School District received an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III grant in 1973 to develop an internal research and evaluation capability. Funding was provided the resulting Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) for three years. The foci of the original grant were (1) to develop a district evaluation model, (2)…

Stresses the need for creating a constituency in Congress, identifying issues such as dissemination of educational research and communication between researchers and politicians, and generating vocal support for educational research throughout the country. (AM)

Research supported by Grant MH-07346 from the National Institutes of Health.

Reduced or stabilized costs of education can only be attained by positive changes in productivity as defined by the ratio of outputs to inputs. Educational units or districts could do research on productivity improvement at low costs if they combined for such research and development (R and D) activities. The area of productivity research that…

This document is an updated edition of an annual publication of the "Directory of Physics and Astronomy Staff Members," published by the American Institute of Physics, and covers the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. The directory contains 10 parts and 7 appendices. Part I through Part IV include the geographic listing of academic…

The Teaching Research Infant and Child Center classrooms service moderately to profoundly handicapped preschool children by providing comprehensive individualized curriculums emphasizing self help, motor development, language, and cognitive skills. Each model classroom contains 12 children with a teacher and an aide, and utilizes volunteers and…

GUIDELINES WERE ESTABLISHED TO ASSIST IN THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADEQUATE FACILITIES FOR SHORT-TERM RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAMS. FUNCTIONAL CRITERIA WERRE DEVELOPED FROM THE ANALYSES OF COST STUDIES AND A SURGE SPACE STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. ALTERNATIVES WERE SUGGESTED FOR THE PROVISION, PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, SITE LOCATION,…

IN A PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING EXPERIMENT, THE SUBJECT'S OWN VOICE AND THEN THAT OF ANOTHER WERE HEARD TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RECALL OF BOTH PRESENTATIONS. HALF OF THE WORDS FROM EACH VOICE WAS PRESENTED BY AIR-CONDUCTED SOUND TO EARPHONES AND HALF BY OCCLUDED BONE CONDUCTION. THE ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF VOICES, WORD-PAIR HALF-BLOCKS, AND…

INFORMATION IS PRESENTED ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR 1965-66. THE ORIGINAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF HIGHER EDUCATION HAS BEEN MERGED INTO A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY A CONTRACT WITH THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION TO FORM THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION. FROM…

A REPORT WAS MADE OF THE FIRST 2 MONTHS OF OPERATION OF THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN TEACHER EDUCATION. THE PROGRAM OF THIS CENTER WAS PLANNED TO USE A PARTNERSHIP OF EDUCATIONAL TALENT AND EXPERIENCE TO PROVIDE A FOLLOW-THROUGH WHICH CAN MAKE CREATIVE IDEAS IN EDUCATION BECOME REALITIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS RATHER THAN JUST MATERIAL…

Regional laboratories have been charged with serving as the link between so-called educational "research" and educational "practice," a link loosely known as "development." Research generates development and development generates research, with both leading to continued reduction of uncertainty, i.e., effort is…

Presented are data taken from a forthcoming report, An Analysis of Federal Research and Development (R&D) Funding by Function, Fiscal Years 1969-76. The 14 function categories were chosen to make visible the most important R&D objectives in the 1976 budget. Data are additive to 100 percent, and thus each program appears only under a…

Presented is a summary of the Research and Development (R&D) expenditures of state public institutions for the fiscal year 1973. A comparison is presented in graph form of these expenditures for the fiscal years 1964, 1968, and 1973. A review, with comparison figures, is given related to distribution of R&D expenditures of state government…

The aim of the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) of Australia is to foster curriculum and materials development from preschool to post-secondary levels. A broad concept of curriculum includes the totality of experience which a child undergoes during his schooling. Curriculum development under this definition is concerned with developing…