Thirty Texas public school curriculum personnel participated in a 9-week summer research training institute at North Texas State University in 1966. Courses offered were:(1) problem identification in curriculum revision, (2) research methods and design, and (3) evaluative procedures. Several activities were designed to familiarize students with…

A 6-week summer institute on experimental design was conducted for public school personnel who had been designated by their school administrations as having responsibility for research together with some time released for devotion to research. Of the 32, 17 came from Indiana, 15 from 12 other states. Lectures on statistical principles of design…

The institute was designed to provide intensive exposure to evaluation models and some important new evaluation techniques for persons employed in key administrative, supervisory, consultant, or instructional roles in science education. Seventy-seven persons participated in the Institute. A Semantic-Differential scale in pre- and post-response…

Presented is the final report of the 2-year Connecticut "Parenting and the Exceptional Child" project, which provided approximately 100 professionals in the helping fields with training in leading parent groups concerned with managing the exceptional child in the home. Briefly reviewed are the project's five phases from initially…

In the fall of 1966, the USOE Bureau of Research established the Consortium Research Development (CORD) Program, which was designed to assist small institutions of higher education in educational research and development activities. This program consisted of 26 small colleges co-linked together to form 6 consortia for carrying on instructional…

A 6-week summer institute on "Comparative Systems in a World Setting" succeeded (1) in helping 41 high school social studies teachers from 21 states to gain a deeper understanding of contemporary international relations, of the problems and potentialities which reside in the coexistence of over 130 different nations with varying histories,…

This institute was held at Ohio State University, October 21-November 1, 1968 to fulfill two main purposes: (1) to provide an opportunity for personnel in state departments of vocational education to become knowledgeable in the concepts, methods, and practice of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS), and (2) to test a package of PPBS…

A seminar program was held during the summer of 1968 at the University of Minnesota to improve the preparation of vocational counselors and distributive educators in helping students in career development and occupational adjustment. A total of 36 counselors and educators who had at least 1 year of experience were selected for the project. They…

Continuing education programs in library and information science need to be coordinated, regularized, and modularized for increased efficiency, economy, and effectiveness. Institutes, workshops, and seminars are more attractive to participants and easier to organize if they are presented in a topical series or module. Reimbursement of expert…

Presented are the proceedings of a special study institute for educators on the development of art experiences with emotionally disturbed children. The planning committee, institute faculty, program agenda, and participants are listed. Puppet presentations by emotionally disturbed children are reported to have opened the institute. Institute…

This package of materials gives a complete description of the inservice teacher education program developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project for training in the use of their elementary school mathematics materials. The inservice program can be administered at institutes under the direction of elementary teaching personnel with a…

Sample course materials for the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project Teacher Institute are presented. The package includes the first five written lessons of the course and samples of supporting materials supplied with each lesson. The supporting materials pertain to one week's work: a summary of the problems in a film shown at the class…

The objective of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Change in the Four-Year College was to provide a setting where college administrators, faculty members, and graduate students could come to study the possibilities for change in their institutions. The focus of the Institute was to develop knowledge on the part of the participants, that is,…

The objectives of the Institute were to provide selected elementary school principals of North Florida, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama with information, insights, and skills necessary to cope with problems arising from school desegregation. The participants within the service area of Florida State University were involved in twenty…

The first of this set of two papers discusses the administration and activities of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The function of the Division is to safeguard, help acquire, classify and catalog, and make useful the collections of manuscripts in its possessions. To accomplish this the Division maintains a reading room and…