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…

Policy, as much as the merits of an individual proposal, determines which researcher gets how much money to do what kind of study. Federal money accounts for over 75 percent of all educational R & D funds expended. In the formation of federal educational R & D policy, there are two separate structural events--authorization and…

The methods, procedures, and results of an interview survey into reactions of user personnel to the Air Force Instructional System Development (ISD) system are reported. Training evaluation, student measurement, and training manager/instructor personnel were interviewed. All groups regarded the ISD procedures favorably, but some problems…

An educational development team, working at the Center for the Study of Evaluation to produce the Elementary School Formative Evaluation Kit, saw that its mission was not simply to show that a product meets pre-determined performance specifications but was also to ensure that a product can be readily adapted by the user to the "noisy"…

Educational assistance to Turkey (1959-1970) from the United States Agency for International Development (AID) is summarized in this document. In 1959 Turkey's National Educational Commission developed educational policies to which AID responded. AID projects expanded from the General Education Services Project (1957) into individual projects.…

The Report of the International Commission for the Development of Education reinforces the advances that are occurring in education and in overall development policy. At this turning point in education, planning must contribute to needed mutation and reform. Vector planning seems likely to supplement target planning as a means of identifying and…

This is an extensive bibliography, with some brief annotations, of recent literature describing possible alternatives to the traditional form of American public elementary and secondary education. (JG)

Designed as an abridged reference tool for small rural school teachers and administrators, this report on the final Oregon Small Schools Program (OSSP) summer institute (a Title III Elementary Secondary Education Act project in operation 1966-1974) is divided into two sections. Three major presentations constitute Part 1. These include: (1) a…

The educational system of Iran is examined in this document. The basic structural pattern of Iranian education provides for six years of elementary and six years of secondary divided into two 3-year stages. Higher education, including teacher education, is offered at a variety of universities, colleges, and institutes. Vocational programs are…

That American education is in trouble no longer needs to be documented. What is not clear or widely accepted is an understanding of how and why the schools became that way, and what alternatives are available. The readings in this book have been brought together as sources in which to find the foundations of educational alternatives. Alternatives…

Southwest Regional Laboratory IDCMS (Instructional Development Control and Monitoring System) will be a flexible hardware system for controlling and monitoring instruction and research in the laboratory setting. This paper seeks to introduce potential users to the system and software designers to representative challenges that system exploitation…

Today Sweden has a highly developed comprehensive system of public elementary and secondary schools, along with universities and other institutions of higher education. Most of the actual administration of educational matters is the responsibility of three appointed national government agencies operating under the overall jurisdiction of the…

Over the years, Japan has revamped her education system a number of times. With the coming of the U. S. Education Mission in 1946, she turned her schools toward democratization. The major aims of this reform program in education were: 1) the elimination of militarism and ultranationalism; 2) democratization; 3) modernization; and, 4)…

This booklet offers an historical view of the educational system in Czechoslovakia as it has been affected by the major political events in this century. The three sections, "School System: 1918-1948,""School System: 1948-1960," and "School Reform of 1960" discuss preschool, elementary, secondary, and higher…

The purpose of this study was to determine occupational qualifications of trainees in a pre-employment program provided by the Center for Adult Education at Ohio State University and the Columbus Urban League and to investigate the relationship between these qualifications and successful completion of on-the-job training. Seventy-five Columbus,…