Presented are papers and discussion summaries from the first research management conference for mental retardation research centers (Denver, 1974). Basic concepts and application principles of management by objectives are analyzed in a two-part paper by E. Douglas Hodo. Reviewed in a paper by Richard Surles and Norm Ellis is a decision system for…

The Open University of Great Britain provides home-based instruction via broadcasts and correspondence. Since technical arguments for the superiority of open-network, cable, or cassette television systems are inconclusive, the university has been forced to develop a decision-making model to determine which system is the most cost effective. For…

The Mutual Agreement Programing (MAP) process, as currently used in corrections, provides for the use of a legally binding contract between the inmate and the Paroling Authority. The contract outlines future inmate performance in the areas of skill training, education, institutional behavior, treatment, and work assignment or employment. It also…

In August 1972, Kirkwood Community College began a research project to: (1) ascertain population and enrollment trends by various age groups for each of Iowa's 15 school areas and for the State as a whole; (2) ascertain potential enrollment by categories of students; (3) develop awareness of the relation of population and enrollment changes to…

The 1974-75 school year marked the fifth year of operation for the Division of Instructional Development at Utah State University. The model for Instructional Development (ID) consists of four parts: (1) developing faculty awareness; (2) capitalizing on faculty initiative, primarily through small-scale funding under a program of minigrants; (3)…

Graduate education of administrators for mental retardation and developmental disability programs are defined under the umbrella of Health Services Administration. These programs have in common the delivery of health care. From the administrative standpoint, the broad area of human services must be brought down to manageable, functional segments,…

Although planning theory is regarded as an analysis of the relationship of knowledge to action by many theories, a view from the poor and minority strata of this society suggests a different alternative--that planning theory is an analysis of the relationship of "knowledge" to inaction, particularly with regard to the continuation of deteriorating…

This booklet examines the instructional practice of modeling and describes step-by-step techniques for learning to use modeling to improve or modify teaching. The authors discuss the possible use of audio and videotape equipment and emphasize the importance of constructive feedback and individual practice sessions as essential parts of the…

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a new federal agency established in August 1972 within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, occupies a parallel position to the Office of Education. The Administration and the Congress believe that a sustained, systematic investment in research, development, testing, and diffusion will…

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of Piagetian and psychoanalytic theories of infancy to establish the developmental relationships between cognition and affect. Theoretical points of similarity and dissimilarity are cited. Relevant reasearch studies (Bell, Gouin-Decarie, Fraiberg) are reviewed in an attempt to resolve…

A descriptive analysis is presented on the strategy currently being utilized to evaluate the ESEA Title III Human Relations project, "Understanding Ourselves," in the Carroll County Public Schools in Maryland. Building on several theoretical postulates concerning the complex nature of school systems and concerning the organizational and…

While theoretical and empirical research on the economics of human capital is still in its relative youth, a substantial body of work has already accumulated on the variables determining worker earnings and on the importance of schooling as one of those determinants. The present paper focusses attention on one such variable that has received…

The proceedings consist of 11 papers grouped in two major categories: the context of adult learning (social significance and fact and fiction about adult learning) and the utilization of learning models for adult instruction. Contributors are Floyd B. Fischer, George L. Maddox, Rolf H. Monge, Eric F. Gardner, Arthur W. Combs, William J. Hoyer,…

The University of Minnesota's Special Education Administration Training Program (SEATP) is a competency-based education program, developed from a systems orientation model, and used for continuing education of professional administrators. The report presents an overview of the SEATP program under the following topical areas: (1) background…

The curriculum guide is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in students at all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible careers; and to analyze and relate these roles to their present…