A teacher trainee needs to acquire skills which will allow him to make the transition from teaching theory to classroom practice successfully; these skills, based on observations of effective teachers and incorporated into a performance curriculum, not only help implement major goals such as individualized instruction and inductive teaching, but…

This study proposed that a principal's behavior is affected by the feedback he receives from teachers and by his own commitment to change his behavior. The behaviors of 206 elementary school principals (volunteers) were rated by teachers at the beginning and end of the study; the teachers also used the rating scale to describe an ideal principal.…

A survey of 170 school districts was conducted to determine the type and amount of teacher participation in school policy decisionmaking. Ninety of these districts engage in collective negotiation in which teachers are represented exclusively by one teacher organization. In the remaining 80 districts, either a teacher organization is not…

This report stresses the need for behavioral analysts to become more responsible in "setting" behavioral objectives in educational and therapeutic settings. Traditionally, behavior analysis concentrated on how behavior is learned and how it can be taught, but not on which behaviors should be learned. Four steps are outlined in the analysis…

This document presents a concern in relation to the NCHEMS Information Exchange Procedures Implementation Project--the absence of black-box analysis. The nexus between the Outcome of Post-Secondary Education Project and the Program Classification Structure is foucsed on black-box analysis to illustrate its importance through the area of the…

A review of the goals and issues in the development and evaluation of the middle school concept is presented. Although there has been a great increase in the number of middle schools, many seem to be organized without careful planning of goals, programs and evaluation strategies. A review of the problems involved led to the formation of fifteen…

This discussion of teacher expectations attempts to delineate the research steps that are needed to convincingly validate or invalidate the Pygmalion Effect. Five elements of expectancy effects are identified: (1) Information provided to teachers, (2) their expectancies, (3) behavior, (4) children's achievement and (5) intelligence. An examination…

This study guide is intended to help researchers conduct and write research that can be used by the practitioner. The contents include: "The Origin of the Document"; "The Utilization of the Document"; "Products of National and International Significance"; "The Matrix of This Study Guide: How to Keep Educational Research from Gathering Dust on a…

This document presents amendments to the agreement between the Board of Trustees of Oakland University and the Oakland University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Two major amendments cover salaries or awards and research funds. For the agreement, see HE 005 147. (MJM)

An attempt is made to discuss current models of information processing, learning, and development, thereby suggesting adequate methodological strategies for research in visual literacy. It is maintained that development is a cumulative process of learning, and that learning and memory are the result of new knowledge, sensations, etc. over a short…

The fourth annual report of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation comments upon areas of significant progress and of critical need in mental retardation. The problem of malnutrition, improvements in residential care, and advancements in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention through research are discussed. Specific recommendations for…

After distinguishing between elucidatory inquiry (directed toward theory and model construction for understanding and explaining phenomena) and evaluative inquiry (determining the worth of a thing), and providing nine differentiating characteristics, the author discusses the progress of educational elucidatory inquiry. He concludes that it has not…

In planning new directions for teacher education it is reasonable to assume that education will become more rather than less important in the next decade, that technology will drastically alter our way of life, that there will be a continued trend toward urbanization, that teaching will become more individualized, and that teaching talent will be…

This document contains a list of 19 research questions completed by the staff of the Teacher Education Program. The ideas are stated in very brief terms, but each idea has behind it a tentative research plan which can be expanded into a design to fit conditions that exist in any given preservice or inservice teacher education setting. The major…

As an extension of ideas suggested in an earlier paper which proposed a project control system for Indiana University's Audio-Visual Center (see EM 010 306), this paper examines the establishment of project legitimacy and priority within the system and reviews the need to stimulate specific research proposals as well as generating a matrix of…