The purposes of the school management training project were to study the outcome of experimental activities in the field of school management training; to describe the various forms of training occurring in the different training sectors; and to study the outcome of these various forms of training. The two-year training consisted of training…

The Leadership Development Program (L.D.P.) was begun in 1978-79 by the Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board to provide leadership development opportunities for educators who aspire to or show potential for leadership. This evaluation was undertaken through questionnaires assessing participant opinions of the general value of the program and…

The relationship between dogmatism and the preference for certain teaching styles, both in terms of attitudes and teaching activities seen as gratifying, was examined for a group of ninety-five elementary education students. Separate discriminant analyses were conducted contrasting the more dogmatic students with the less dogmatic in terms of both…

Variations in psychological goals for recreation participation are explored, both between and within activity categories, and related to differences in conflict perception. Support for a "goal interference" model of conflict is found. According to this model, when recreation goals are incompatible, behaviors arising out of one set of…

In compliance with the Teacher Education Center Act of 1973 (Section 231.608, Florida Statutes), a select group of Florida educators, Department of Education members, and State Council on Teacher Education Centers (TEC's) representatives developed proposed criteria for both the evaluation of teacher centers and evaluation of the evaluation…

Phi Delta Kappa's Teacher Appraisal For Improvement Workshop (TAFI) was examined relative to its effectiveness in changing the attitudes of teachers, administrators, and others toward teacher evaluation. A sample of 315 respondents (mostly administrators), from 13 workshops conducted by two leaders, was given a pre workshop and a post workshop…

Speed of access is a prime factor in user satisfaction with academic libraries. Specialized (i.e., departmental) libraries have proliferated to provide faster access. This study timed a sample of 933 citations, drawn from items cited in publications of members of each academic unit within the university. The hypothesis that the optimum size for a…

The narrative portion of this report describes the results of a recent survey of the users of PLANIT, a computer language designed to make computer-assisted instruction easier and more accessible to the user who is inexperienced with computers. The survey shows that with recent revisions in the system, user satisfaction has increased, but areas of…

The Career Education Workshops project began August 15, 1972 and was completed April 11, 1973. The primary purpose of the project was o conduct eight workshops which would be geographically distributed throughout Illinois on the basis of teacher population density, and would educate 240 or more elementary teachers concerning Illinois' three newly…

This study summarizes responses to a questionnaire sent to graduates of the Educational Aide program, an off-campus program conducted by Los Angeles City College (LACC). The Educational Aide program was designed to upgrade skills and knowledge for individuals employed to assist teachers in the classroom, on the playground, and in several…

This study described and evaluated a 1969 community development training seminar in the province of Quebec held by the Institute Cooperatif Desjardin, including workshops on such topics as community development ("animation"), economic development, and program planning and administration. Concentrating on the nature and causes of the…

The general plan of the 4-year (1966-1970) Educational Laboratory Theatre Project was to have theatre companies in Rhode Island, New Orleans, and Los Angeles give five matinee performances per week for high school students and three evening performances for adults in order to (1) make extensive use of professional theatre as an integral part of…

An HEW funded Institute on Utilization of Library Manpower was held at the Graduate School of Librarianship, University of Denver, November 29 through December 10, 1971. The 22 participants examined the tasks performed by various library personnel and attempted to evolve new task groupings which would fully utilize the talents and increased…

The nature of the relationship between a teacher's knowledge of certain principles of adult teaching, his application of those principles in classroom practice, and the resultant level of satisfaction reported by his adult students was studied. Agroup of 1,596 adults in 100 university classes were the subjects. A theoretical framework adapted from…

To determine why some farmers drop out of the Wisconsin Young Farmer Program while others continue to enroll and to investigate strengths and weaknesses of the program, questionnaires were mailed to a random sample of 500 students, who were divided into broad categories of dropouts and re-enrollees. Usable returns from 41 percent of the dropouts…