This report describes the implementation of the Individually Guided Education (IGE) program in the Armstrong School in Lynchburg, Virginia. In IGE, the graded self-contained classroom is replaced by the multiunit school so that individualized learning can occur. There has been much demand for similar kinds of changes in schools, but most previous…

Rural adult education projects using television in Tanzania, the Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala are described and compared with special attention given to objectives, organization, selection and recruitment of supervisors, monitors and participants, use of communication media, feedback and evaluation systems impact, and…

The 274 citations presented were selected from family planning research studies completed between 1946 and 1972 using social, psychological, and communication variables. The entries are numbered consecutively, and methodological summaries following each reference cover (1) researcher and/or sponsoring agency, (2) independent variables, (3)…

An eight-level table of Levels of Use (LoU) is employed to measure the adoption and eventual success of program innovations in teacher education institutions. Speculations on the success or failure of attempted innovations, backed with statistical analysis, are presented. (SAS)

This manual is intended to help projects approved by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel produce materials that will support their dissemination activities. Specifically directed toward career education projects, it should be equally useful for other projects. Section 1 discusses diffusion/adoption and these topics regarding materials: purpose,…

CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATORS ARE DISCUSSED WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL CHANGE. ABOUT 2.5 PERCENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS TEND TO BE INNOVATORS. SIX GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATORS ARE LISTED--(1) THEY ARE GENERALLY YOUNG, (2) THEY HAVE RELATIVELY HIGH SOCIAL STATUS IN TERMS OF AMOUNT OF EDUCATION, PRESTIGE…

This paper reports the results of a study that investigated factors constraining or encouraging the use of evaluation data by school administrators. It begins with a lengthy analogy about the use of a restaurant guide that is intended to illuminate how constraining or encouraging factors influence the use of evaluation data. The author defines a…

The purpose of this paper is to develop a generic conceptual framework for understanding the intergovernmental implementation of state administered federal categorical aid programs in education. In addition to building on the base laid by previous research, the development of this framework also relies on empirical research conducted on the…

A mapping procedure was used to analyze a massive amount of narrative data which was collected from observations of the implementation of an intervention. Mapping is the procedure of locating interventions in relation to one another conceptually, as a map does physically. As the data were analyzed, classifications and groupings of interventions…

This manual was designed to familiarize social workers with the dramatically restructured family court practices in order to prepare them for a family court appearance. Chapter I presents a brief history of the family court and describes such aspects of the family court as confidentiality of proceedings, impact of a court record on the individual,…

The purpose of this book is to explain how urban schools can deal productively with problems found embedded in their organizational structure. Written for persons interested in organizational change in schools, the book focuses on the theory of how problem solving in schools does work, how it can work, and how it can be facilitated by change…

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…

Meaningful and effective change in education is possible only if educators are themselves psychologically able to change. This means that the profession must decide whether to accept or reject people into the next phase of the professional preparation program or into the profession itself. At least seven points in the professional time line can be…

Educational planners and managers are provided with the background knowledge essential to understanding and effecting planned change in education. Several dimensions of planned change are outlined and related to involvement of administrators, operational leaders, and teachers. Also presented is a model of the time-involvement dimensions for…

This second annual report of the Temporary State Commission on Child Welfare accounts for the progress made toward resolving the problems raised in the first annual report and summarizes the present status of the Commission's projects--completed, in process and proposed. Among topics briefly discussed are preventive services, the child welfare…