This paper focuses on an approach to instructional development that consists of three basic stages interrelated by feedback. The first stage, system definition and management, is an exhaustive effort to define the problem, study the existing instructional context, and determine staff support and management controls. Stage two, design analysis and…

The author emphasizes the difficulties of advising, the problems the adviser will meet in carrying out his job, and the sensitive relationship between the adviser and the advised. He considers the useful things which the adviser might do, and discusses the many roles an adviser can assume once he has adjusted to the host country and established a…

The Symposium was conducted to study the problems raised in various countries by the evolution of their educational systems in the direction of life-long education. Twelve specialists prepared short papers describing the evolution of educational systems in which they had been influential. Among the considerations reviewed are: the concept of…

This bulletin contains six articles designed to assist teachers in understanding research and development activities so that they may have a more positive impact on educational practices in schools. The first article reviews significant issues in elementary education, focuses on problems that have prevented a successful implementation of past…

This paper describes the activities of Project Covert and Overt Responses to Education Simulation (CORES) designed to provide an identity for students and faculty desiring to engage in simulation-related research and development activities. Activities for investigating the use of simulation are in the directions of administrative decision making,…

The Ideal Design of Effective and Logical Systems (IDEALS) project is a program based on the concept of a five-part methodology for designing educational systems. The objectives of the IDEALS concept are to train educational decision makers to use and train others to use IDEALS, and to produce materials and procedures which will permit others to…

This document, one of five volumes designed to train educational research and development personnel in the instructional development process, describes the program materials and provides instructions for their use. This volume is divided into three sections: an introduction, a description of how to use the program, and a detailed schedule to…

This study provides a perspective of history for the future development of cooperative education and describes in detail the philosophical basis upon which cooperative education was established. Five defined periods of the growth of cooperative education are discussed: the early establishment of cooperative education in the seven colleges prior to…

The purpose of this technical paper is to outline the procedures used in designing the training programing in educational evaluation and development involving an elaborate collection of data from many sources and a drafting of a tentative plan which was then screened, reviewed, and critiqued by each of the consortium units. The data sources were…

The second technical paper describing the training program in educational evaluation and development contains the description and rationale for the training consortium, including discussions of the value of consortium agencies during planning and training. The following consortium units and their roles are described: University of Colorado, the…

In this third technical paper, the design for a training program for educational developers and evaluators is explicated. Mentioned are 1) the procedures by which the design was generated and 2) the salient characteristics of the several agencies which make up the consortium. The topics considered in this paper include 1) a general description of…

This final volume of the report on the training program in educational evaluation and development at the University of Colorado contains four appendixes: 1) "Vitae of Project Staff"; 2) "Progress Report and Evaluation of the Graduate Research Training Program and the Laboratory of Educational Research"; 3) "Sample Measurement Instruments,"…

This document, the first of a series, details some of the elements in Brigham Young University's Instructional Research and Development Program which reflect the belief that a training program for specialists in instructional development must contain a different emphasis than a research training program. The topics considered include 1) curriculum…

This report contains an anthology of papers presented at the 26th National Conference on Higher Education held by the American Association for Higher Education. The papers present information concerning programs and developments in some of the nation's newer colleges that have grown up as a result of the demand for fewer traditional programs in…

Some negative features of instruction development are considered, with focus on four major error syndromes associated with current instructional development activities. The first, Immoderate Aspirations, deals with developers who attempt to accomplish goals which are beyond the capabilities of current development expertise. The second, Feedback…