This paper builds a strategy for ways in which instruction can be improved through research. The strategy is one that thinks of instructional changes as those that promise to make significant differences in instructional outcomes and then determines whether or not these changes fulfill their promises. The document cites evidence that supports the…

This book examines the topic of community education and its potential application to the curricula of American schools. The authors focus on the need for significant curriculum change, suggesting that the life processes and concerns of people should become the common core of systematic education. Much of the book is devoted to establishing a…

A pre-planned team approach to educational change is described to maximize the chances that education majors and public school students willfully receive the types of improved learning experiences new curricula and organizational innovations promote. Public school and college change agents participating in an action lab sponsored by the…

For the academic social scientist who aspires to or actually assumes the dual role of expert and activist, the applicability of scientific knowledge and action-oriented expertise becomes an extremely practical problem. When the "knowledgeable" activist fails, the theoretical gap between knowledge and action intensifies the problem, and the…

This paper defines "student development" as emphasizing processes whereby classroom instructors and student affairs persons in post secondary education collaborate in facilitating the cognitive and affective development of the student. It traces the history of such an approach, and provides some resources in print for those who wish guidelines on…

The report presents a description of a volunteer probation counselor program involving the use of volunteer citizens in counseling relationships with youthful misdemeanant offenders. The program was conducted by the Lincoln-Lancaster, Nebraska, Municipal Court. The report contains a description of the essential features of the program including…

This booklet is the second in a series of annual publications that list and describe a wide array of promising and innovative educational practices in hopes of stimulating the development of alternative educational delivery systems and strategies involving students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Included in the booklet are brief…

This report describes a practicum project that designed, developed, and implemented a model collective bargaining procedure for use by educators in small and medium-sized districts in florida. Section 1 of the report presents a brief historical perspective on collective bargaining for teachers in the U.S. and public employee bargaining in Florida,…

The Rand Corporation's Change Agent study suggests institutional and process factors (local materials development, on-line planning, and staff training) that could guide the development of a relevant and useful evaluation model for career education programs. These factors and their implications for evaluation are discussed. (BP)

A case study of a systemwide development, implementation, and evaluation of K-10 mathematics programs primarily, although not exclusively, in basic computational skills and problem-solving. (Author/MLF)

The author maintains that pupil personnel workers should be advocates for the individual and for the rights of the individual. However, the majority appear to be dedicated only to helping children adjust to society rather than helping them modify the environment. (Author)

The importance of data contributed for use in industrial training by the sociologist and anthropologist, the interrelationship between culture and technology, and the implications of culture's relationship to change and/or learning are discussed. Some principles for gaining acceptance of change are listed. Concern with quality products implies…

Text-anxious students who were high or low in general anxiety were treated with applied relaxation, systematic desensitization, relaxation only, or no treatment (control). The results indicated that applied relaxation was more effective in reducing anxiety than relaxation only and no treatment on measures of general anxiety and measures of test…

Educational planning involves giving attention to the social, political, and educational complexity of schooling. Where reform programs do not consider the underlying patterns of school belief and conduct, innovations may only rearrange the technological surface. (Author)

An overview is presented of systematic behavioral analysis as a method for modifying both social and cognitive behaviors through reinforcement. Various techniques are explained: response differentiation, shaping, chaining, fading, extinction, timeout, and response cost. (SJL)