This Alabama State Annual Evaluation Report on programs, projects, services and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year 1974 (FY74) is organized into three parts. Part One is organized into an "Introduction" and 15 sub-sections discussing the following topics…

Responding to the public demand for accountability, Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) is concerned with identifying and developing competencies for building-level administrators. This two-volume report, one of six interrelated documents, describes the processes and procedures used to identify school administrators'…

A case study was conducted in order to explore the working relationships between the administrative staff of Belleville Area College (BAC) in Illinois and the members of its 21 vocational-technical advisory committees. Case study methods included interviews with administrators, supervisors of curriculum areas, and coordinators; attendance at…

Systematic and reliable feedback are critical elements of microteaching. One system whereby pre-service and in-service teachers may obtain systematic and reliable feedback during microteaching is called the Social Science Observation Record (SSOR). This monograph is intended to meet three purposes: (1) To explain the SSOR as a verbal system for…

The Social Science Observation Record (SSOR) is a systematic observation system designed to abstract and describe class discussion, specifically those discussions directed toward value clarification as an aspect of subject-matter instruction. The objective and yet diverse nature o category observation systems is described and an explanation is…

Classes for senior adults (adults sixty years old or older, or retired) have become commonplace. Many instructors have no experience with this kind of student, so the need for instructors trained in special learning theories and practices that apply to senior adults has been identified. This report is designed to serve as a refresher or supplement…

Many research questions concering dissemination of educational innovations remain unanswered. We know that dissemination is in itself a science; our strategy is based on the belief that successful adoption of an innovation requires certain generic skills distinctly different from the skills related to a specific innovation. We are examining…

Varying needs, largely unmet, were found in the provision of adult education throughout Massachusetts, and recommendations were formulated for an articulated and adequate program. Low priority, weak centers of leadership, and a limited and confused mandate emerged as major obstacles to effectiveness. It was found that, on the basis of accepted…

A special community development study group analyzed the range of objectives, roles, employment patterns, and settings in British community work; identified future objectives and roles, especially in such areas as psychology and sociology; and recommended methods and subject content for professional community worker training. Existing training…

This directory of Federal Educational and Training activities contains 25 completed reports and studies, followed by 48 others on programs still in progress. The Civil Service Commission, Post Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfare report activities of both…

A 2-week institute trained 30 public school personnel, all involved with the Illinois gifted program, as evaluators. An evaluation design, materials, and instruments were developed; the workshop evolved from evaluation planning to skill training in data gathering techniques. Evaluation in terms of each participant's local situation was stressed.…

The purpose of the institute was: 1) to improve the teaching of Negro students; 2) to prepare Negro and white teachers to assume duties in predominately Negro schools; 3) to meliorate racial prejudice, to provide for Negroes to develop healthy self-images; 4) to prepare educators to deal with problems of race relations; and, 5) to prepare teachers…

This is a guide to 82 documents which are abstracted for RESEARCH IN EDUCATION (RIE) from November 1966 to December 1968 on preparing school personnel through the collaboration of schools, colleges, agencies, organizations, state departments of education, and the community. Part one presents summaries of the RIE abstracts in the following…

In June 1966, representatives of the 95 member organizations of the Joint Commission on Correctional Manpower and Training met in Washington to plan their work for the next three years. Speeches were given on commitment to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders, how this rehabilitation can be achieved, and the shortage of manpower in the…

This workshop was planned to review the findings of a study on manpower utilization of professional (M.S.W. degree) and nonprofessional social work personnel in mental hospitals and to determine their application to the demands of a changing mental health program. A literature search and questionnaire survey were used to investigate the proportion…