A 5-year longitudinal study of factors affecting the implementation and operation of computer based education (CBE) projects in military settings using the PLATO system identified five major factors: project planning, staff selection and retention, lesson development, implementation and site management, and results and final evaluations. Findings…

A study explored the relationships between public relations practitioners' organizational roles and the type of evaluation methods they used on the job. Based on factor analysis of role data obtained from an earlier study, four organizational roles were defined and ranked: communication manager, media relations specialist, communication liaison,…

THIS HANDBOOK CONTAINS ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN ELEMENTS FOR AN EDUCATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAM--(1) COMMITMENT, (2) FACILITIES, (3) STAFF, (4) BUDGET, (5) INSERVICE TRAINING, (6) MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT, AND (7) EVALUATION. (MS)

THE FIVE MAJOR AREAS COVERED BY A SEMINAR ON PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES, SPONSORED BY THE GEORGIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN JUNE, 1966, ARE SUMMARIZED. PAPERS WERE PRESENTED, AND A PANEL REACTED TO THE FOLLOWING--(1) THE PUPIL PERSONNEL CONCEPT, (2) THE COUNSELOR ON THE PUPIL PERSONNEL STAFF, (3) THE SOCIAL WORKER ON THE PUPIL PERSONNEL…

One of six documents describing the Management Information System for Vocational Education (MISVE), this document is designed as a reference manual for MISVE data input clerks and technical support personnel. (MISVE was designed to provide users with an advanced management information system (MIS) capability that could effectively respond to…

The amount of change that has occurred in schools is unimpressive when compared to the financial and human resources devoted to the change effort in recent years. A small number of innovations have succeeded--either by surviving in a "near-original" form or by leaving a residue of desirable change. The causal factors present in apparently…

Many of the techniques used to structure, record, and store information contained in printed material should now be applied to the field of audiovisual media. The rules of communication and association which apply to printed knowledge can serve as tools to critically analyze messages delivered via audiovisual media. This text describes the…

This document describes the Teacher Education Center Program, a cooperative program between the University of Maryland and the public school system which has been implemented to articulate and integrate theory and practice and bring together the preservice and inservice components of teacher education. One section of the document capsules the two…

This survey ascertains how much improvement has occurred in the economic status of the library profession and makes some further studies relating to occupational structure. Data are presented concerning the pyramidal structure of library staff organization, salary increases, observations on the occupational and compensation structure of academic…

In this paper the roles and functions of man in the evolution and development of two complex specific systems within the Army operational environment are discussed. It is pointed out that throughout the course of historical development, the basic system functions and objectives have remained unchanged even though the system equipments have varied.…

Presented in chart form with accompanying booklet is the Task Base Composite (TBC), part of the Santa Cruz Special Education Management System Project, which lists 700 staff tasks to aid in the administrative determination of personnel needs, deployment, and program costs. Listed tasks are either "Learner Line" (tasks directly involving or…

The concern of this report is differentiated staffing. Background, historical precedents, and early models of this concept are explored, and a theory base is found in the concepts of a functional division of labor (specialized teaching talent) and the classical definition of promotion based on merit. Projects in differentiated staffing at Florida…