This paper reports on a survey of the need for inservice metric education and for greater emphasis upon metric education in mathematics methods courses in Nevada. The report is based upon data from two types of questionnaires. One questionnaire surveyed the need for metric workshops. The second questionnaire surveyed the present knowledge of the…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. The focus of the module is on a "planned change" process to implement career education programs. A significant amount of the module's content is oriented toward exposing the learner to various tools to be used in dealing…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. It addresses itself to developing an understanding of evaluation as it applies to accountability and decision making. The learning objectives are: to understand the accountability function of evaluation; to relate…

This report gives details of an inservice program designed to help teachers learn and understand the Mathematics Continuous Progress-Skill Mastery Program and Management System in Chicago schools. The program consists of locally-developed curriculum guides and behavioral objectives, criterion-reference tests, and mastery record key-sort cards.…

One of five sections of materials for a program to change teacher attitudes toward career education, the document presents the results of the pilot testing of the program. The attitude change product was evaluated by a pilot test plan and a field test plan. Design, data collection, and data interpretation for each test plan are described. Although…

The Chicago Satellite, as a member of the EPDA Midwest Center Consortium, sought to create the EPDA's "New Professional" by retraining in-service teachers and school staff.The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle's College of Education and the Department of Educational Psychology at the Urbana campus are working in conjunction with…

A teacher education program intended to increase the variety of questioning techniques employed by science instructors is presented and evaluated. Used by four different groups of secondary teachers, this module presents a question category classification structure based on the Aschner-Gallagher system, but modified to be specific for science…

This paper describes some important aspects of the first two years of operation of the Educational Management Development Center (EMDEC). EMDEC was created in 1974 through a joint effort of the Carnegie-Mellon School of Urban and Public Affairs, the Kettering Foundation, and the Allegheny County Intermediate Unit in an attempt to extend the…

The processes involved in staging successful inservice training, staff meetings, and task force sessions are described. Examples are provided and details are given for four phases of preparation: preplanning (including identification of need, setting priority objectives, and determining the type of group session); planning (covering such aspects…

An ethnic heritage studies project of the Cleveland Public Schools is evaluated. The prupose of the project is to create a program for research and curriculum development in ethnicity which will serve as a model to educational institutions throughout the country. Program efforts focused on five major activity areas including curriculum…

First of a six-volume package, the guide introduces a resource and planning program for school practitioners responsible for involving the community in career education. The program, designed for use in preservice or inservice training of educational personnel, includes models, references, and suggestions for developing programs to secure…

The American Historical Association's (AHA) involvement in Faculty Development Programs (FDP) in history instruction is described. The purpose of FDP is to improve teaching as part of a continuing process. AHA guidelines recommend that these programs be initiated and supported by AHA under the following conditions: (1) a regional confederation of…

This paper describes how a five-day supervisor training program was designed and offered cooperatively for the personnel department of a city of 100,000 population. It includes the content and related learning experiences which were developed for the training and an evaluation of the results. The course covers basic supervision skills for newly…

Members of the Gulf Regional Interstate Collegiate Consortium include nine junior colleges and seven universities in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This annual report presents the highlights of the consortium's activities for 1975-76. Included are the proceedings of four inservice workshops, the minutes of four Executive Council meetings,…

The purpose of this study was to develop and pilot modular materials about the reading instructional process to be used in the inservice training of principals. The first step in designing modules for elementary principals involved identifying three major categories of skills Three modules were designed under the headings of the major categories…