This document reports on a program to train administrative, supervisory, and consultative personnel in evaluation methods, techniques, and procedures for instructional programs. Specific program objectives were: (1) to define each participant's role in planning and evaluating an instructional program, (2) to write specific behavioral objectives…

In response to the need for a clear understanding of student personnel programs in the Chicago City College system, the following strategies were employed: (1) the Council of Student Personnel Deans adopted a statement titled "Principles and Corollaries for a Philosophy of Community College Student Personnel Services" which was drafted…

The Status of Reading Programs Committee of the Connecticut Association for Reading Research devised and sent a survey questionnaire which was returned by 43 percent of its membership, representing 33 different school systems in Connecticut. It was reported that the ratio of reading personnel to classroom teachers was 1:54 at the elementary level,…

The staff-development process in a small community college that has no full-time Educational Development Officer is described. The process is discussed in relation to faculty improvement meetings, professional improvement meetings, staff and program development fund, federally funded projects, vocational/technical grants, departmental and…

Increases in the cost of travel together with projected decreases in the cost of long distance telephone calls indicate that economy in consultation can be increased by a shift to more telephone consultation in the future. This may be difficult and awkward for researchers if consultation involves looking at computer output, particularly in an…

Data were collected on the patterns of services provided by units of Higher Education in universities to community and junior colleges in the West, Midwest, East, and South during the years 1970 and 1971. The data were obtained by questionnaire returned by 36 of 61 universities to which it was sent. Results of the survey are presented by region,…

This paper reports on a 2-year field investigation of the frequency and content of interactions between curriculum consultants and elementary school teachers involved in implementing an inquiry-oriented curriculum. The report includes data generated by 45 consultants and 600 teachers in 53 diverse schools. The types of questions teachers ask…

The planning, design, development and field testing of an instructional system for the training of educational disseminators/evaluators who are named "Educational Information Consultants" is reported. A modular training program is described covering the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to perform effectively in…

This document presents a report on and description of the Minority Business Consulting Program, a graduate course at the University of Wisconsin Graduate School of Business. The basis of the course is students' gaining the faith of black small businessmen in hopes that the students, with their knowledge of business practices, might help the…

Consultation to the staff of a trainable mentally retarded (TMR) public school over a 2 year period is described in terms of the multiple roles the consultant must play. Emphasis is placed on the consultant's active role in facilitating the staff, especially with regard to trying new behaviors. The consultant is seen to reach the children…

This handbook is one of a series to facilitate and improve the collection, maintenance, and reporting of educational information. As a guide for recording and reporting information about State education agencies, this handbook defines and provides classifications of terms concerned with State education authorities, their personnel, and their…

Stanford's multidisciplinary program (1) encourages the combining of a concern over educational policy and educational changes with the competence to make rigorous and imaginative contributions to policy and change; and (2) develops an awareness of the relationship among policymaking in education, fundamental research in social science, and…

The purpose of this study was to describe and assess the Continuing Consultant Program as operated by the Tennessee Appalachia Educational Cooperative (TAEC) during the 1969-70 school year and to develop a climate profile of these schools using the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire. Eleven schools with continuing consultants and 11…

One of the great paradoxes of our time is that while the population explosion indicates health services are effective in curing disease and maintaining life, a shortage of physicians to further cure illnesses and maintain life is in evidence. One of the major problems involved in this lack of physician manpower is that of a shortage of medical…

Using interaction analysis, studied the classroom verbal interactions of three types of elementary science classes: not using a process-promoting curriculum; using a process-promoting curriculum, with or without a consultant. Among the findings was that teachers who interacted with a consultant were more indirect in their teaching. (MLH)