This paper considers three aspects of federal legislation and policy that are critical to an understanding of federal dissemination of research and development and exemplary practice information in education. One of the major difficulties is the variety of viewpoints on what constitutes dissemination. These range from one-way flow of information…

The document contains six papers in Spanish which focus on the developmental and other aspects of education permanente. The first paper, The Concept of Education Permanente, discusses the concept as a new dimension in the area of education, capable of limiting inequalities in the presentation of education in general. Descriptions of 20…

African universities have a critical role to play in the improvement of the African social fabric. There is no necessary conflict between scholarly and social concern. Tasks facing African universities involve the design and operation of the educational system, especially in regard to entrance qualifications and their relationship to academic…

The first two pages of the document consist of Item 27 of the provisional agenda for the 1974 session of the UNESCO General Conference regarding the desirability of adopting an international instrument on the development of adult education. The remainder of the document is the report of a Preliminary Study of the Technical and Legal Aspects of the…

This paper covers a series of basic problems and issues involved with the introduction of population education in our schools. These basic questions are: (1) Why should the new content be considered for inclusion in the school curriculum? (2) What aspects of the full range of potential content of the new field are appropriate for a particular…

The first 80 pages of this report describe procedures used in assembling, cataloging, and annotating a large group of instructional materials used in educational research, development, and diffusion training programs. This section also compares the characteristics of the materials and outlines procedures used in improving four of them which were…

The document comprises collections of experimental instructional projects generated by teachers at the Big Ten universities. The projects are usually aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a particular disciplinary area, but many of these arrangements can be easily adapted for use in other departments. The entries in Section 1;…

This analysis compares the efforts devoted to research and development (R&D) in education with those devoted to R&D in health and agriculture. Specifically, it characterizes the size and institutional arrangement of the educational R&D community and compares it on a common basis with the agricultural and medical R&D communities.…

A methodology is presented for planning and managing the spread of educational innovations. The first portion of the guide develops a theoretical framework for diffusion which summarizes and capitalizes on the latest marketing and on the latest marketing and diffusion research findings. Major stages in the diffusion paradigm discussed include…

This document identifies the values, beliefs, and goals of the P.K. Yonge Laboratory School to serve as guides for the process of development, research, evaluation, and program modification. Statements are grouped to enumerate: (a) general qualities desired for all aspects of school life; (b) the faculty's beliefs about its function in the…

The front-end load model in which students enter school during their pre-productive years and then consider their schooling finished is not adequate in today's society. There presently exists several types of programs for education outside the regular school system (organizational, proprietory, manpower and anti-poverty programs, correspondence,…

The Crestwood Community-Based Learning Experiences Project was undertaken to test the feasibility of conducting an out-of-school learning program and to determine the cost of establishing such a program. For 3 months, 6 teachers and 206 fifth-grade children participated in a total of 20 field experiences which were implemented at three levels: a)…

As a discipline, marketing can offer several things of value to the National Institute of Education (NIE), both with respect to its design function and its dissemination. This report identifies those items that marketing can offer NIE and explains how they could be used. The authors maintain that NIE can profit from marketing's (1) emphasis on…

After listing the constraints on publicly-supported institutions, the author insists that higher education institutions are still free to revitalize liberal education, shorten the curricula, revise subject matter requirements, and even to alter drastically the internal system of governance. Higher education is crowded with tasks solely within the…

This paper begins by examining the context within which the NIE is likely to be evaluated, such as what it will be expected to achieve, who will assess its achievements, and why and when assessments will be made. The second part of the paper deals with suggested evaluation dimensions of (1) the technical quality of the R&D supported by NIE,…