Forty participants were selected from over 200 applications for this summer institute on the basis of their ability to influence the research effort of their school district. The major objectives of the institute were to improve the research skills of school administrators, to heighten their interest in research, and to provide information about…

This paper presents a summary and analysis of the current state of research in the field of organizational innovativeness and develops a provisional conceptual outline of the overall process and characteristics of organizational innovation and the general factors which may be related to innovativeness. Based on the "summaries approach" to…

A plan has been adopted by Bethany Nazarene College to study practices and procedures at that college and at other institutions, and to suggest changes to be implemented over a 10-year period. The entire faculty and many students are involved in this 2-year study. A study committee identified the scope, sequence, and priorities of the study. This…

Discriminant analysis is reviewed in terms of: (1) formulations, (2) interpretations, (3) uses, (4) issues and problems in applications, (5) recent developments and conceptualizations, and (6) general references and computer programs. Four aspects of a discriminant analysis are considered. They are: (1) separation: determining intergroup…

During the last few years the research enterprise dealing with the status projections of youth, and in particular, the numerous empirical studies focusing on occupational aspirations and expectations, has increasingly come under criticism within the sociological community. The paper acknowledges the criticism directed toward projection research as…

Presented is a discussion of the evaluation of a parity model, competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program in science education. The evaluation design seeks answers to six questions: (1) Does a competent teacher emerge from the program? (2) Is the program valid with respect to the Concerns Model postulated by Fuller's work? (3) Do the…

This study analyzed 42 of the 50 studies on performance-based teacher education cited by Rosenshine and Furst and the teaching variables proposed. The studies were analyzed for seven characteristics: a) criterion of student achievement, b) operational definitions of teaching behavior, c) statistical results, d) legitimacy of statistical tests, e)…

This document contains data obtained from a pretest survey conducted to test the applicability of the instrument and the suitability of procedures to be used in the survey of secondary-level course offerings and enrollments during the 1972-73 school year. The last comprehensive survey of this nature was taken during the 1960-61 school year. The…

The criterion problem in the neoPiagetian cognitive-developmental literature is reviewed. This problem has provoked debate in the context of three empirical questions: concept age norms, concept training effects, and concept invariant sequences. It is argued that only the question of invaniant sequences in same-stage concepts is theoretically…

Individuals engage in media behavior several times daily. If a medium is actually used, that decision is one of a series of points which constitute a media behavior unit. The media behavior unit is used in several ways. First, by looking at particular attributes, researchers can determine whether an individual is consistent in medium…

Two important assumptions are made. First, research and development capability is essential to the fulfillment of the responsiblilities and objectives of any state department of education. Second, state departments of education are uniquely different from other educational institutions and agencies in their purpose and, therefore, in the type of…

This paper is an ardent plea for simplifying experimental design and the associated statistics. The emphasis is on design itself. Traditional designs from simple to complex and reviewed and the simplest, most basic ways of handling the data are presented. Design is stressed in such a way that simple statistics follow. The intactness of…

The emergence of a new theoretical framework for research in human development is discussed. The theoretical perspective is contrasted with the classical laboratory experiment, which produces ecologically invalid research because of the restrictions of the artificial laboratory environment. The emerging framework enhances ecological validity by…

The four colleges participating in the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley initiated a project to stimulate the involvement of their faculty in the development of research, development, and evaluation projects on a scale comparable to that at larger institutions. The specific objectives were as follows: a) to organize and implement…

The author reviews cross-sectional and longitudinal studies on the status of intelligence in the aging, and finds conflicting conclusions: (1) intelligence does decline as persons grow older; (2) only some aspects decline while others improve; and (3) intelligence does not decline. Certain factors are adduced to suggest that such…