Part 1 of the report focuses on project operations to train paraprofessionals for employment in human services, briefly describing the community college instructional program with reference to enrollment, courses, grading, fieldwork, supportive services, proficiency examinations, preceptor training, articulation, the advisory committee,…

The program is intended for inservice use by State department consultants, intermediate and local school district inservice coordinators, and college and university instructors. It affords them the opportunity to examine the concept of career education and the concomitant implications for change in their local settings. The document is the…

The Board of the State of Florida attempts to discharge their obligations and meet the challenge of the decade by: (1) insuring planning diversity through development of a new master plan called CODE (COmprehensive DEvelopment Plan), follow-up professional studies, and by planning for economy and equality; (2) expanding and improving educational…

The proceedings of the 1974 Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference on Moral Development are included in this document. Six presentations cover a wide range of topics concerning the nature of moral development, the predominant educational philosophies in the schools, the distinctions between cognitive understanding of moral dilemmas…

The application of conventional psychometric procedures to instructional product development is outlined. Selected non-psychometric requirements of developing and delivering effective instruction are described and the consequent implications for psychometric procedures set forth. Present instructional development technology is circumscribed in…

The manual presents a technology of instructional design and a model for developing and conducting efficient and cost effective Air Force instructional systems. Chapter 1 provides an overview of Instructional System Development (ISD). Chapters 2-6 each focus on a step of the process: analysis of system requirements; definition of…

Teachers' centers have been established in England and Wales for the purpose of curriculum development and inservice teacher education. The philosophical basis for the centers are the principles that the motive power in curriculum development should come primarily from local groups of teachers accessible to each other and that there should be…

The research and development process in the children's commercial television programming industry is examined to determine possible applications to educational research and development. The children's commercial television industry's research and development model usually consists of the following phases: research (market analysis); preliminary…

Sections of this annual report deal with the following topics: political and constitutional developments--the white population group, the colored population group, the Indian group; political affairs of Africans; commission of inquiry into certain organizations and related matters; organizations concerned with race relations; the population of…

When the learning assistence center's origins and development, beginning with the yen to be scientific and continuing to the rewards of combining technology with humanism, are considered in retrospect, they show the evolution and the revolutionary realignment of many very basic educational concepts. The historical irony of the learning assistance…

A special issue of NHK Today and Tomorrow, published by Japan Broadcasting Company, describes open-circuit and classroom broadcasts. Policies of NHK are explained and standards listed for educational programs in general, school programs, children's programs, and cultural programs. The scope of classroom broadcasts is described and a schedule…

A. Craig Phillips, superintendent of public instruction of North Carolina, declares that a major priority of the National Institute of Education is to collaboratively develop with state education agencies an adequate system of dissemination, diffusion, and adoption of improved practices. The NIE Advisory Panel on Dissemination and Utilization and…

This annotated bibliography lists 102 entries of selected educational materials in Pakistan covering the period January-March 1974. The materials are organized into 28 categories: Administration, Organization, and Financing of Education; Adult Education; Agricultural Education; Curriculum; Education Goals; Education Planning; Education Reforms;…

The first in the Asian series on experiments and innovations in education, this study describes the historical background generating the present Singapore education system and provides a detailed report on reform and changes introduced in the past ten years. Innovations have occurred in curriculum development where secondary education received…

Means by which traditionally minority institutions might obtain and utilize computer facilities are listed and examined. Sharing facilities between administration and classroom use are discussed, and guidelines suggested for establishing a cooperative utilization. Costs are analyzed, and methods described for stimulating faculty to employ…