This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Developing and Conducting In-Service Programs. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is given in the accompanying module,…

This module is directed toward those persons who will be responsiblie for providing inservice programs for career guidance personnel. The module will help participants increase their understanding of the stages, activities and issues involved in developing an in-service program and of the competencies required. Upon completion of this module the…

The Regional Seminar on Educational Evaluation held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 7 April to 2 May 1975, was organized as a follow-up activity to a study carried out by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP, Paris) in 1973-1974. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had in 1973 requested the IIEP to…

The product of the Task Force on Community Development, Curriculum and Training Needs, the report focuses on community development as an emerging field of knowledge and is intended to serve as a guide for self-study, orientation, inservice, undergraduate, and graduate training for community development professionals. Topics treated include: the…

This report discusses a program to present the Teacher Advisement Training Model. This model for training teacher-advisors is based on the assumption that tentative commitment to making school a more rewarding experience for all is the first step in starting an effective program. The approach is to help teachers learn specific skills and methods…

In November 1973 the Minneapolis Public Schools' Leadership Development Committee conducted a needs assessment of school administrators' professional development requirements. Three-fourths of the approximately 260 people surveyed returned the survey questionnaires. The respondents were mainly principals and assistant principals. Findings of the…

Examined is the phenomenon of the recent faculty development movements in institutions of higher education. Of special importance are: (1) major ways we have approached faculty development; (2) forces that influence the faculty development movement. A construct of faculty development involves giving conscious attention to planning, studying, and…

Much of the controversy over training in diagnostic testing between internship training centers and universities results from the implicit producer-consumer relationship which exists between them. A collaborative relationship is proposed as an alternative, in which the training activities of universities and internship centers are seen as…

The perceived environments of departments in five graduate fields were studied in a longitudinal study of a large sample of students. Students' perceptions of the administrative, peer, academic, and general environments of the departments were examined by an extensive questionnaire. The "environments" of the fields differed in plausible ways, each…

This report contains analyses and interpretations by the Study Commission of data gathered by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the American Council on Education. Although the study was completed in 1970, there were many data tapes which had not been previously analyzed--particularly those dealing with teacher education. Items based…

The student personnel staff at St. Petersburg Junior College, Clearwater Campus, participated in several in-service training seminars to up-date and improve procedures and techniques for dealing with individual students . A consultant from the University of Florida, and the St. Petersburg Junior College Dean of Student Personnel conducted the…

The concept of an information management system is presented in order that the major educational functions can be conceptionally and operationally integrated within one computer center during the seventies. These major informational functions include: (1) information retrieval of administrative data; (2) scientific computing; and (3)…

This book presents the development of adult education in East Germany in four phases (after World War II, the early 1950's, the late 1950's, and 1962 to the present) and describes training programs of adult educators. The Law on the Unified Socialist Educational System, passed in 1965, introduced a comprehensive reorganization and standardization…

A six weeks training program was conducted for counselors, psychologists, and social workers to improve their understanding of the disadvantaged, their counseling skills, their information of college admissions, and their ability to identify and utilize positive forces in the environment. Two courses were held: advanced counseling theory and…

This document contains the papers presented at a symposium held to examine the implications of the varied factors encompassing the certification of educational researchers as expressed by the Consortium of State and Regional Educational Research Associations (SIG). By definition, the educational researcher is one who possesses competencies in the…