This report presents the findings and recommendations of Botswana's National Commission on Education, based on the commission's 15-month review of Botswana's education system and its goals and major problems. The commission conducted its study from January 1976 through March 1977 and gathered information through personal visits and consultations…

Representing a broad segment of people interested in rural America, this document presents 16 speeches. Speeches on rural development implementation at Federal, state, and regional levels include: "The Rural Development Concept" (calls for a national rural development policy which provides for a multicommunity, regional framework strengthened by…

These guidelines for development of local programs of work experience are the result of a workshop which incorporated input from professionals in the areas of counseling, vocational education, social work, school psychology, administration, organized labor, and state labor regulations. Content briefly covers the following areas of work experience…

This guide to the use of a 100-module series of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) materials is addressed to teacher educators, directors of staff development, master teachers, and others with responsibility for guiding and assisting preservice or inservice vocational teachers in the development of professional teaching competencies. There…

The centralized, federally controlled, public educational systems of New Zealand and Australia are in a state of disequilibrium and change. While the federal departments of education still remain the one institution in the education system capable of an informed, overall view of the entire scene, the pressures toward decentralization (including…

This monograph is a report of the findings of a comprehensive survey to identify the functions, organizational structures, and numerical adequacies of central-office staffs, by size of school systems, in Virginia and to determine the relationships between certain characteristics of school systems and the numerical adequacies of central-office…

A demonstration adult education project aimed at a rural New Jersey population and involving class sessions 1 evening per week at 6 sites (N=85 students, including 65 caucasians, 10 blacks, and 10 Hispanic) was evaluated in terms of compliance, process, and performance. Compliance monitoring included examination of: visitations; budget; staff…

The thirteen papers included here were presented at a conference on the importance of systematic research in evaluating the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system and administrative functions. The first paper spells out the roles and responsibilities EMS administrators incur when they make a commitment to participate in a research project. An…

There is a continuing need in evaluation research for the establishment of a relationship between evaluation findings and decision making. A method is proposed for a particular situation: annual funding decisions for projects in a large grant program in vocational education. Outcome and predictive impact variables were ranked by three groups of…

This bill to authorize a career education program for elementary and secondary schools, if enacted, would be cited as the "Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act of 1977." It is intended to assist States and local educational agencies in making education as preparation for work a major goal of teachers and students by increasing the…

This curriculum guide for agricultural education contains nine chapters on outdoor recreation. Each is written by a different author (professors at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and follows a similar format: Objectives, list of references, list of teaching materials, notes on teacher preparation, content for presentation,…

Some of the problem in the evaluation of presidential leadership are discussed in this speech from the president's viewpoint. It is noted that often there is a close and positive relationship between the quality of an institution and the success of its leadership. Some reservations are addressed about certain aspects of the presidential evaluation…

The questions surrounding "citizen" participation in governance are important in American society generally, and some of these questions are raised in this analysis of the performance of broadly-based campus senates. Of 688 institutions identified in a national survey as having campus senates, 364 responded to a more detailed…

In 1974, the Dissertation Review Committee surveyed faculty, doctoral condidates, and alumni of the University of Michigan as part of a review of dissertation requirements. The committee had four objectives: (1) to examine the dissertation as a learning experience, giving attention to the time required and the interaction of the student with the…

This Educational Testing Service conference provided an opportunity to clarify many of the issues and problems involved with educational accountability. Among these issues were assessment, evaluation, auditing, and performance contracting. The papers included in these proceedings are: The Means and Ends of Accountability (Terrel H. Bell); Issues…