An understanding of how children interact with reading material in educational settings is crucial to the understanding of successes and failures in teaching children to become skilled readers. This report describes the development of a plan for observing, describing, and coding reading activities in a representative sample of classrooms. The…

In this summary of research projects funded by the Office of Research and Development (ORD) of the Employment and Training Administration, only projects completed between July, 1975 and September, 1978 are listed. Projects and publications presented for program planning and administration, programs and techniques, the labor market, and economic…

This module on the development of a research proposal in vocational education is one of a set of five on evaluation and research and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial…

Judgment ANalysis (JAN) is described as a technique for identifying the rating policies that exist within a group of judges. Studies are presented in which JAN has been used in evaluating teacher effectiveness by capturing both student and faculty policies of teacher effectiveness at the University of Northern Colorado. In addition, research…

This paper states that the real gains in collecting data on the educational system appear to lie in discovering more about the relationships between schools and what they produce. The required data, which could be collected fairly cheaply from existing records, include (1) education outputs as measured by grade level completion, college…

This handbook is written for use by individuals at the local and state levels, with the ultimate goal of influencing the nature and direction of research in vocational-technical education. The substantive base for the handbook is derived from presentations published in total in "Proceedings: National Conference on Research, 1968 Vocational…

The four colleges participating in the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley initiated a project to stimulate the involvement of their faculty in the development of research, development, and evaluation projects on a scale comparable to that at larger institutions. The specific objectives were as follows: a) to organize and implement…

This annual report summarizes all Manpower Administration-sponsored research projects active or funded during fiscal year 1970 and lists all reports completed since the research program was begun in fiscal year 1963. Guidelines are included for submission of research proposals for research contracts, dissertation grants, and research project…

A masters program specifically designed to train community college English teachers is badly needed is the contention of this paper. The community college holds greater job potential for English majors, does not pressure for faculty publication, and is the only area of higher education for which growth is predicted in the next decade. A proposed…

The recurrence of problems in connection with research and development (R and D) activities supported by the Audio-Visual Center of Indiana University led to the development of a proposed control system. This paper lists those problems and examines the assumptions which must be met by the control system--that the Center will support all types of R…

Instead of expending enormous energy investigating limits that may be biologically (or evolutionarily) determined, it may make more sense to expend resources on developing additional, mostly undeveloped capacities that will enable ordinary people to perform at levels far beyond what they achieve through our present educational programs. (Author/EB)

Practical considerations are outlined to assist foreign language educators to prepare grant proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Information is provided on the agency's review process and common reasons for the failure to obtain desired funding. (SW)

A study of data from 12 graduating classes of one medical school showed that medical students' choice to pursue funded medical research was independent of undergraduate major, although slightly more nonscience majors than science majors undertook such research. Concern about increasing nonscience medical school matriculants is seen to be…

The acquisition of research skills is seen as appropriate for all counselors. Research proposal writing is suggested as a training method for achieving those skills. The role of each part of the research proposal in training research skills is explained. (NG)

The potential of television as an educational tool for increasing the intellectual competencies of preschoolers is discussed. (DB)