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Joyce, Bruce R. – 1980
This paper reports the summative evaluation of a four-year Teacher Corps project at a California elementary school. The archives of the project and interviews with over 60 of the persons involved are the basis of the report. The investigation focused on an examination of the school's formal and informal systems. The study looks at (1) the social…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Manfred, Madge, Ed. – Communitas: Journal of the Connecticut Community College Professional Staff, 1980
Curricular and instructional issues are discussed in 12 articles by faculty of the Connecticut community colleges. Jack McLean examines the potential role of community colleges in international education, and Kerin Sarason proposes teacher self-evaluations to reduce faculty/administrator tension. Jean Burr Smith introduces methods of reducing math…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Community Colleges, Counselor Training
Taylor, Beverly Loy – 1978
This guide is the third of four intended to help persons involved in planning new schools, new programs, or other comprehensive change projects. The materials consist of readings to be done individually and exercises to be done individually and/or with a group. Guide 3 looks at the political side of planning new schools by examining the interface…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Cooperation
Reagin, Ewell J. – 1977
A cooperative project of Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, the College for Human Services, New York, and Merrimack Valley Branch/University of New Hampshire on the topic of leisure and liberal education is described. The project is part of "Change in Liberal Education," a network concerned with the renewal of liberal education. The…
Descriptors: College Role, Education Work Relationship, Educational History, Educational Innovation
La Forge, Paul G. – 1974
Charles A. Curran has developed a radically different type of language learning by dealing with the learners as a group rather than as a class. The social learning relationships of a class differ from a group in the contract, the social milieu, in the relationships between the teacher and students, and among the students themselves. Curran called…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Counseling, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)
Sandusky, Nancy; Johnson, Susan – 1976
The Special Services Program for Disadvantaged Students is designed to assist certain postsecondary students who require special help to complete their education successfully. Through Federal grants to institutions, special service projects have been established to offer supportive services to low-income, physically handicapped, and…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Aid
Friedman, Charles P.; And Others – 1979
The effects of student instructional preference on performance in an engineering course offered both by Personalized Instruction (PSI) and lecture/discussion methods were explored in a study of 113 university sophomores and juniors. In lieu of random assignment to instruction mode, this study employed self-selection, the most common situation in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
Gremmo, M. J. – 1978
Communicative competence is now at the point where theory must be translated into practice, that is, where the functional approach must be developed into pedagogical content and strategies. An analysis is presented of the three main pedagogical approaches: the structural, situational, and functional approaches. Principles underlying the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions
Wade, Serena E. – 1969
This review covers books, journal articles, and ERIC documents, 1966 and later. Much emphasis is placed on media program and project descriptions, rather than reports of completed research. The review points to trends of common media use and student performance and tries to shed some light on the general direction of future media efforts for the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Bibliographies, Compensatory Education
CAWELTI, GORDON – 1968
BECAUSE THE LAST DECADE HAS BEEN A PERIOD OF MORE INTENSE EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION THAN ANY PREVIOUS PERIOD IN HISTORY, A NATIONAL STUDY WAS MADE TO DETERMINE HOW SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAVE CHANGED. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DISTRIBUTED TO 10,266 REGIONALLY ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES, AND 7,400 RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED. THE SAMPLE POPULATION…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Diffusion, Expenditure per Student, High Schools
KIMBALL, SOLON T. – 1964
THE SWEEPING CHANGES WHICH CHARACTERIZE THE MODERN WORLD HAVE BEEN REFLECTED ONLY INCIDENTALLY IN THE ORGANIZATION AND PRACTICES OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. A TREMENDOUS EDUCATIONAL VACUUM EXISTS IN THE AREA OF INTERPERSONAL EDUCATION, IN WHICH THE STUDENT LEARNS TO FUNCTION AS AN EFFECTIVE MEMBER OF A COORDINATED TEAM, RATHER THAN AS AN…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Administration, Group Dynamics
Turner, Ronald C. – 1968
The computer-assisted instruction project in review Spanish, Computer-Assisted Review Lessons on Syntax (CARLOS), initiated at Dartmouth College in 1967-68, is described here. Tables are provided showing the results of the experiment on the basis of aptitude and achievement tests, and the procedure for implementing CARLOS as well as its place in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Costs, Educational Experiments, Experimental Teaching
Johnson, James A. – 1968
This document reports a survey study designed to collect rather comprehensive descriptive information on student teaching from 1,110 teacher education institutions in the United States. The data--received from 847 institutions (76 per cent) and tallied for each state and for the entire country--is presented in 53 tables accompanied by explanatory…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Affiliated Schools, Analysis of Variance, Cooperating Teachers
Martin, John Henry – 1968
Recommended are a series of educational changes which would enhance the schooling of poor children in slum schools. (1) The most important factor requiring change is teacher expectation of slum children. (2) Primary school levels should be upgraded. (3) Specialists should be grouped into a diagnostic treatment team led by a reading specialist who…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Diagnosis
Kreitlow, Burton W. – 1965
This report, part 1 of a two-part research and development study on the education of adult educators, deals with the relationship of certain disciplines and fields of study to adult education. Material was obtained by reviewing and integrating recent adult education research with that cited in previous reviews, reviewing recent research in related…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adults
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