The Fifth Annual Report of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching covers the following: a) the center's program; b) a descriptive overview of the center; c) center resume; d) program and project register; e) Program 03, The Environment for Teaching; f) Program 04, Teaching the Disadvantaged; g) Program 05, Heuristic Teaching;…

This bibliography was compiled to provide access to some of the latest research findings, curriculum materials, and/or developments in small schools. Previously, information relating to small schools has been incorporated with the bibliographic series "Rural Education and Small Schools, A Selected Bibliography"; however, it was felt that when…

Education is today a recognized social and economic necessity. Increasing demand for career education is putting enormous pressure on educational institutions--elementary, secondary, private, profit, nonprofit, and higher. Problem areas are: career education program expansion, career education's dilemma (because it is not a recognizable part of…

Systems analysis and educational technology are powerful concepts, but to date their application to educational systems has been limited. The overall function of the systems analyst has yet to be defined and no operational or theoretical base has been created to support a technology of education or to justify its integration into school…

This document, 10th in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook providing training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of evaluating instructional materials. The document is organized according to the three sequential steps involved in performing the task. Step 1 is…

The Multiple Alternative Program (MAP) is a competency based, individualized program that focuses on the in-service education of elementary school teachers. Developed in cooperation with the school systems of Norwalk and Bridgeport, Connecticut, MAP addresses itself to the achievement of those teaching competencies that have been identified as…

This project, associated with the Institute for Training Directors of Teacher Education Reform Programs, focused on selected realities of current efforts that provide alternative programs for teacher education. This report contains theoretical, analytical, and practical models, discussions, and case studies that should be valuable to educational…

The purpose of this report is to recommend certain administrative management policies and procedures for the National Institute of Education (NIE). Administrative management activities for NIE are personnel, budget, finance, general services, contracts and grants, and overall administrative management. Management information is included in this…

This paper builds a strategy for ways in which instruction can be improved through research. The strategy is one that thinks of instructional changes as those that promise to make significant differences in instructional outcomes and then determines whether or not these changes fulfill their promises. The document cites evidence that supports the…

Various aspects of the academic growth of Catholic higher education are discussed. It is concluded that Catholic higher education is not nearly as weak as it used to be but not nearly as good as it can be. Schools could be much better now than they are if the relationship between the religious order and the educational institution was clarified,…

Reported are trends in geological education over a time span selected to correspond to that in which the federal government dramatically increased spending in science education and then subsequently withdrew major support. Aspects of geological education covered include: 1) history of the selected years in geological education, 2) geological…

This document is a collection of summaries of recently published projects prepared for participants at the British symposium on research and reform in teacher education. The symposium was one of a series initiated by the Council of Europe's Educational Research Committee. The document is divided into three parts: Teachers (which includes abstracts…

This report discusses the role of the community college and proposes policies for future development. It presents new projections of enrollment in 2-year institutions of higher education on a state-by-state basis to 1980 and on a national basis to the year 2000, as well as estimates of needs for additional community colleges by 1980. The report…

The purpose of this report is to recommend an educational institutional model that might effectively provide a means of coordination, accommodation, and implementation of programs to meet post-secondary needs in Israel on a regional basis. Israel already has 2-year post-secondary institutions, but the colleges and universities do not accept their…

The Center for Educational Technology (Bildungstechnologisches Zentrum -- BTZ) is a research, development, and implementation (R and D) organization set up by the State of Hesse, West Germany. It has the novel (for Germany) function of being a middleman between politics, research, and educational practice in developing curriculum for German pre-,…