An institute was offered at Rockhurst College to give high school and college educators an intense and extensive contact with cinema in all of its aspects--filmmaking, thematic analysis, use in curriculum, Hollywood production, direction, independent filmmakers, library usage, script-writing, booking, programming, and the actual viewing of short…

OBJECTIVES: To provide a matrix of factual information based on research and expert opinion, provide a variety of experiences, provide opportunities for the demonstration of specific techniques, and disseminate findings to the technical education community. DURATION: Summer Institute, August 17 - August 28, 1970; Follow-up Program, August 29, 1970…

This report summarizes and evaluates the 1969-70 Consortium Research Development (CORD) training and dissemination project conducted by Teaching Research, Oregon State System of Higher Education. The project provided a 2-week summer institute to train selected college and university staff from CORD institutions in the use of individualized,…

The purpose of this publication is to inspire an interest in research and encourage art teachers at all levels to seek more information and try this methodology (descriptive research in art education) in their own teaching environment. There are some who see art and science as quite distinctly different approaches to reality. Another view is that…

The purpose of this paper is to provide summary data relative to the instruments developed for analysis of in-service institutes. This paper initiates a slightly different form of offering instruments for use by others. Rather than presenting a finished instrument with only summary data provided and all of the subjective decisions made, the reader…

This institute was comprised of three phases: planning, training, and follow-up from April, 1966 through October 1967. Administrators were trained in staff utilization, counselors dealt with typical interracial counseling problems, and teachers were involved in developing educational experiences for the newly desegregated classroom. Among the…

This project was conducted for sixty members of the Paseo High School staff. The general objective for this workshop was to acquaint teachers with the social and psychological context of desegregation and with some approaches to teaching learners in situations of educational disadvantage. The participants met for three hour sessions five times in…

The Institute was comprised of 75 language arts teachers who were divided into five groups based on their regular school assignment. A master teacher was responsible for each group who showed effective teaching behavior and carried out basic objectives. There were also specialists in the areas of education, occupations, programmed learning, art,…

Eight papers which are concerned with the keeping of business and historical archives were presented at the Institute. They are: "Appraisal of Business Records,""Oral History,""Labor History Archives,""Arrangement of Manuscripts,""Manuscript Collections of the State Historical Society of…

The Institute held at Queens College was designed to contribute to the improvement of library services to children and young adults with minority group orientation and/or socially disadvantaged status. The focus was upon providing better materials for Black, Indian, Mexican, Oriental and Puerto Rican Americans by improving the ability of…

In the summers of 1967 through 1970, summer institutes were held at the University of New Hampshire, Durham to train those involved in the field of higher education with various research methods. Although the initial institute participants consisted mainly of classroom personnel from New Hampshire, the participants in the three subsequent programs…

This guide discusses recognition of common conference faults, their causes and how to correct them; proper planning for the conference; the use of good conference techniques; better understanding of how to handle conferees. Section titles are: Why Have a Conference; Planning and Organizing a Conference; Conducting the Conference; Class Exercises…

The summer institute program was designed to provide basic training in Afro-American and African studies for teachers from midwestern colleges and universities to meet the severe teacher shortage in these subjects. Content knowledge and attitudes were emphasized more than teaching skills. The 40 participants were instructed in Afro-American and…

The purpose of this 6-week training institute was to orient a group of selected black undergraduate students to the nature of and general procedure related to the process and methodology of educational research. The program was specifically designed to: (1) enable the students to identify pertinent educational problems and to formulate appropriate…

This report consists of an evaluation of the effects of introducing the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) Level One curriculum into the classes of ISCS Institute participants. Participants were compared with a control group on the basis of results obtained from the Classroom Activity Checklist, Student Inventory, Scientific Attitude…