Reviews basic issues confronting current training programs and offers an analysis of their strengths, weaknesses, and limitations. (JM)

Needed evaluation of programs can be achieved by applying to the guidance process the learner based evaluation procedure being developed for use with classroom instruction: (1) evaluation of outcomes; (2) informed selection of materials; (3) subsequent identification of process variables related to goal achievement. Presented at APGA, Las Vegas…

Adult vocational education is expanding at an accelerated pace. It appears that the individuals with the most pressing needs are not adequately being served. (Author)

Author urges new materials for reading programs be studied over several months before selections are made. To strengthen present programs, material should be suitable both to school's particular pupils and teachers, help towards reaching program's goals and, perhaps by utilizing different methods than those in use, stimulate interest in learning.…

Pollution: Its past, present, and future. (Editor)

Medical technology education in Canada has made great strides in the last decade, author Delaat argues, but there is still a long way to go. He examines coordination at national and regional levels, says the latter leaves much to be desired probably because of poor teaching facilities, then comes out strongly in support of college-operated …

The National Business Education Association currently is engaged in a variety of programs designed to improve business education at all levels. (Author)

Describes an exploratory study, its findings still tentative, using portable videotape recorders and micro-teaching techniques to motivate university professors to engage in activities to improve instruction, despite the nonrewarding atmosphere. (IR)

The evaluation plan described in this article provides a means of obtaining information which can be used as the basis for statewide improvement of secondary occupational home economics education programs. The procedures used in the plan's formulation and implementation in Wisconsin should also be appropriate for use in other states. (Author/CT)

Sketches the Ohio Department of Education strategy for making effective schools, that is, by defining school effectiveness and by citing the general factors influencing the conduct of effective programs. (JW)

In an attempt to understand why the promise of educational innovation has not been realized, educational innovation, its ideological and paradigmatic underpinnings, and the major stages of the innovation process are critically examined. The centrality of power and the generation of correspondence and contradiction as key analytical concepts are…