In 1960 the State of California established a Master Plan for the development, expansion and integration of the facilities, curriculum and standards of higher education, in junior colleges, State colleges, the University of California, and other institutions of higher education of the state, to meet the needs of the state during the 1960's and…

This document presents a case and guide for a "Space/Time-Preference" (S/T-P) higher learning situation in which educational programs, plans, and proposals seek to promote learning beyond campus classrooms, while many of them are even flexible as to when and how a student learns. The purpose of the guide is to focus on the long-range problems and…

The three parts of the report on career education activities reflect the three purposes of the report. Part 1, Reviewing the Past, traces the historical development of career education within the Office of Education (OE) from 1968 through 1973. Part 2, Describing the Present, describes the set of criteria developed to separate OE activities into…

Research and development efforts at the Florida State University Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Center have centered on four main area: (1) computer systems development, (2) research, (3) instructional product development, and (4) instructional validation and service. Progress on Project THEMIS was made on developing learner strategies,…

This appendix contains copies of the instruments described in volumes I and II of the COPED project, as well as a coding manual. (Related volumes are EA 003 046 and EA 003047). (MLF)

This is the final report of the General Learning Corporation's planning effort for the Fort Lincoln New Town school system. Designed as a "Comprehensive Plan", it summarizes the educational plans developed to date, and presents some new elements of planning while it serves to "tie together" all previous planning to provide the reader with a broad…

After a critical review of the papers on Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) of several prominent educators, recommendations are proffered for CAI systems improvements prior to new research. These include replacing the typed message with an inexpensive cathode ray tube, developing the student interface as an efficient and pleasant carrel which…

Accomplishments made by the Los Angeles Community College District during its fifth year of independent operation are noted, and 10 projects to receive attention during the coming year are listed. The accomplishments are: (1) increasing and diversifying enrollment, (2) stabilizing and improving the college environment, (3) developing fiscal…

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a Federal agency started in August 1972, is concerned primarily with educational research and development. Programs existing prior to NIE, including most of the research programs of the Office of Education and several programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity, were transferred to NIE. In addition,…

This synopsis of a symposium on priorities for research and development in education was intended as a planning report for the National Institute of Education. The members of the symposium suggested that the following research and development efforts be undertaken: a) an analysis of the data base for teacher education; b) an analysis of the…

Since educational organizations must constantly change to meet the demands of a changing society, educational administrators might look to the social sciences for help in managing change and innovation. This paper argues that an organizational approach to educational innovation is likely to be more successful than an individualistic approach.…

This document is a summation of four years of work at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education in Austin, Texas. The basic aims of this center are to research the effect of teacher education on teaching behavior, to research the effect of such teaching behavior on relevant aspects of child learning, and to develop a teacher…

Given the realities of new developments in the field of communication, particularly as these have been reflected in administrative reorganizations at the university level, group participants sought to identify the implications of these changes for secondary teacher preparation. In order to establish the data from which to delineate the issues for…

This document, one of five volumes comprising a training program on instructional materials development designed for educational research and development personnel, gives an overview of the program and provides practice in using the materials. This volume is divided into five sections describing the purposes of this orientation manual. Section 1…

This document, fourth in a series of 11 subvolumes of a handbook prepared to provide training for educational research and development personnel in the development of instructional materials, deals with the task of stating criterion and preparatory objectives. The document content is arranged according to the sequential steps involved in…