In planning the first doctoral program in education at the new University of South Florida, the guiding purpose was to create a significant innovation recognizing among other things that 1) urban schools are society's most difficult education problem, for which effective research offers hope for solutions, 2) the college is involved in urban…

In a controlled experiment, the IIEP attempted to develop efficient teaching materials in the field of educational planning. Informal instructional materials were compiled from the tape recordings, transcriptions, and summary notes of seminars, lectures, and discussions conducted by the IIEP in its training and research program. This instructional…

This is a 20-item, three part questionnaire designed to measure knowledge of decision-making and evaluation on the part of participants in a training program on planning and evaluation. Part of TM 001 078. (DLG)

During 1972-1973, the Commission on Youth Education in Environmental Conservation for the State of New York sponsored a series of six regional conferences. They were designed to explore needs and solutions in environmental education at the regional level, demonstrate the concept of total community involvement in environmental education, and…

The joint study group was established to identify the most urgent research and training needs in agricultural engineering in Brazil and to recommend how best to meet those needs. Specific recommendations are given for a long-term program to establish quality programs in education and research in agricultural engineering in Brazil and means to gain…

A selection of James Finn's writings is collected here for students of media and instructional technology and for decision makers who are concerned about education. A general perspective for examining the educational setting and a philosophy of education which makes us aware of the importance of vigorously examing our ideas, practices, and…

This discussion treats the state-owned institutions of Pennsyvania as an educational system. Justification for such a view is traced in the historical roots, legal and functional development, and current mission of these institutions. To assess the effectiveness of this system, enrollment patterns and degree output are examined, first in…

Aspects of change in industrial societies as they relate to adult education are discussed in this paper which proposes a system of life-long education. New features of societies practicing adult education and new trends typical of the components of adult education systems are analyzed. Guidelines are presented for life-long education in all phases…

Current theories of national economic development are reviewed and found unsatisfactory, and an alternative scheme is presented, based on the concepts of consumerism and producerism, as well as the realization that development is not a unitary phenomenon, but proceeds at different rates in different sectors of the economy and different parts of a…

Institutions of higher education are today faced with a challenge that is more prevalent today than it has ever been before. They must prepare their graduates for the jobs and careers that will be in need of manpower in the future rather than for those jobs that are empty at present. This requires careful planning and accurate prediction on the…

In 1960 a regional college at Temuco, Chile was established to take education to the people of that area and to reach citizens outside metropolitan areas where the only post-secondary institutions were located. In 1961 another regional college at La Serena was established with 6 additional regional centers in operation by 1970. These institutions,…

The purpose of this bibliography is to organize and present an introductory selection of books and reports that may be of value to understand the growing complexities of leadership and planning in institutions of higher education. It is intended to be of benefit to the student of university administration as well as the experienced administrator…

The Evaluation and Development Blow Your Mind Conference was one activity initiated under the design grant for the Colorado Center for Training in Educational Evaluation and Development (at the University of Colorado). Prior to the conference, 3 consultants (a psychology professor from the University of Washington, a representative of the…

This document reviews the development strategies of the Far West Consortium for development, dissemination, and evaluation (D,D&E) training. These strategies concerned three areas: 1) cooperating institutions, 2) system development approaches, and 3) functional context programming. To develop the strengths of several agencies, a consortium of…

This report presents an overview of the Oregon Studies in educational research, development, diffusion and evaluation (RDD&E). Five major classes of information were sought: a) knowledge about the area from others who had done previous work in this field, b) conceptual views and tentative maps of the structure and nature of the domain, c) a…