Innovation should not be initiated simply for the sake of change but to make teaching more effective and improve students' learning. Changes in a teacher's method of instruction should be made to meet needs of the students, but the teacher is also responsible for trying different teaching techniques in the classroom that increase his/her enjoyment…

Agencies and individuals making decisions and recommendations for American Indian children in foster care should have a structured approach to the assessment, decision making, and replacement of these children. The underlying goal for all decisions should be to arrange a permanent home where the child can develop tribal identity. Placement…

This report describes and evaluates the Indiana Global Education Program which developed teacher in-service training sessions, dissemination networks, materials, and resource centers to strengthen global education in Indiana Schools. The emphasis in this report is on how elementary and secondary Indiana teachers used the ideas and materials which…

This final evaluation report examines the activities of the P.S. 243 Follow Through Resource Center in Brooklyn, New York during the 1980-81 school year which was established to disseminate and demonstrate the Bank Street Follow Through model. The report includes an evaluation of training and implementation of the Bank Street model at two adopting…

As part of a broader study of the National Institute of Education's Research and Development Utilization (RDU) program, this report focuses on the process by which collections of products (the knowledge base) were developed to serve clients' needs, the types of products included for dissemination, and the types chosen by sites. The seven project…

In 1971 and 1972, the province of Quebec enacted legislation instituting a parental advisory committee in all schools in the province. The legislation mandated that parents become informed about school issues, disseminate information to the wider community, and provide school authorities with advice on educational decision-making. This study…

This model is based on the belief that all those affected by a competency-based high school diploma program should help formulate it. School systems should begin by considering two fundamental questions: (1) What competencies should all graduates possess? (2) How can these competencies be tested? The first step is the establishment of an advisory…

This follow-up study of a special demonstration project (Oregon, 1973) evaluates the placement of children in foster care by exploring the stability and quality of placements. The project included 509 children who were under 12 years of age, unlikely to return home, and adoptable. The following questions were investigated: (1) How does the…

In 1973 the Children's Services Division (Oregon State) initiated a project to reduce the backlog of children in indeterminate status by developing more Permanent alternative placements. This follow-up study evaluates the placements of foster children who returned to their parents, were adopted, or remained in foster care. A literature review…

This paper, designed to assess the degree of implementation of the important features of a curriculum innovation, was presented at the 1978 Bat-Sheva Seminar on Curriculum Implementation and its Relationship to Curriculum Development in Science, Rehovot-Jerusalem, Israel. It investigates the use of sub-interviews within the main interview to…

There is a wide range of communication needs in rural development programs, including the need to develop comprehensive communication strategies for program fulfillment. Such strategies call for communication specialists whose expertise transcends the "information" role and includes the whole process of development. This process must not neglect…

This report is the result of investigations into the residual or long-term impact of the l975 Corp Member Training Institute (CMTI) of the Teacher Corps on Institute participants. Singled out for investigatlon were the trainers, the trainees, and the evaluators of the program. The impact of the CMTI on the Teacher Corps projects and schools where…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO IDENTIFY THE CRITERIA USED BY ADOPTION WORKERS IN THEIR EVALUATION OF ADOPTIVE APPLICATIONS, TO DISCOVER WHETHER CASEWORKERS HAVE VARIOUS APPLICANT MODELS FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF CHILDREN, AND TO EXPLORE ATTRIBUTES OR ATTITUDES DIFFERENTIATING ACCEPTED AND REJECTED COUPLES. THREE PUBLIC AND FIVE PRIVATE AGENCIES…

THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE--(1) TO DESCRIBE AND COMPARE TEACHERS' VIEWS AND THE TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRINCIPALS' VIEWS TOWARD VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS, SUPERVISED PRACTICE PROGRAMS, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION GENERALLY, AND (2) TO DETERMINE IF THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS' ATTITUDES AND TEACHER ADOPTION OF A…

Research adaptation is an endeavor that implies solid collaboration among school practitioners and university and college researchers. This volume addresses the broad issues of research as an educational endeavor, adaptation as a necessary function associated with applying research findings to school situations, and change as an inevitable…