Eight guidelines are presented for more closely integrating television into the total instructional process and for increasing its support and use. Developed through experience with instructional television at the state network level, these guidelines advocate (1) choosing an instructional area with an identified need, (2) choosing an area with a…

Designed to assist present and future vocational and technical educators in the establishment and use of advisory committees, the paper clarifies the functions of different types of advisory committees in vocational-technical education, identifies areas in which advisory committees may give guidance, discusses the formation of advisory committees,…

This study is a historical analysis of the public junior college idea and its emergence. The thoughts and actions of Henry P. Tappan, William W. Folwell, William R. Harper, David S. Jordan, and Alexis Lange contributed most to its origin and development. These men, products of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were strongly…

It is the author's view that an applied behavioral science approach to the problems of learning and instruction is fundamental to instructional technology. The systems approach may constitute the core technology around which other relevant technologies may be clustered and integrated in application. The author outlines his plan for implementation…

This paper presents some of the ideas of three early contributors to the junior college movement in the United States (William Watts Folwell, Henry Phillips Tappan, and William Rainey Harper). All three of these men agreed that the first two years of college should be within the realm of secondary schools, or, at least, distinct from the…

The authors present a framework depicting an evaluation-decision sequence, describe each of the evaluation stages, and note the relationships between evaluation information and subsequent decisions. In Chart I, the four major decision areas and the five kinds of evaluation which provide information for decisions in each of these areas are…

The two-cassette tape recordings in this set contain the proceedings of a session at the 1969 meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. One of the two papers summarized the major results of a survey of the status of educational research and development in the United States in the Fiscal year 1968. The findings of the…

This historical review describes the educational development of women in higher education. Emphasis is placed on the beginning of formal education for women, secondary and higher education, and higher education and the twentieth century. (MJM)

This analysis of 1,200 educational research and development projects taken from the U.S. Office of Education's "Current Project Resumes, July 1970" was made to determine the crucial objectives or activities which have a direct effect on project costs, as part of the planning for the National Institute of Education. Projects were…

This report offers recommendations from the vantage points of educational administration and supervision regarding the best use of discretionary federal funds for the improvement of the quality of American education. Part one describes the Administration and Supervision Task Force on School Improvement and Reform. Part two, "Recommendations…

Researchers neither are now, nor can they become the sole arbiters of educational change. In order for National Institute of Education (NIE) to effect change, there must be a true dialogue. In other words, the research users, parents, students, teachers, and school officials must have a chance to give NIE their ideas. While the author believes…

This lecture discusses the higher education of blacks in the United States. The first part describes historically the development of black higher education by chronological periods up to approximately 1965. The second section discusses the present era in terms of several major current issues. Some of the social, legal, and political aspects of…

This document includes a summary of the Laboratory's activities for the year ending November 30, 1970; the Laboratory's objectives and plans; and a proposed budget for the year ending November 30, 1971. There are seven major sections: 1) an introduction describing the Laboratory's role, specific target area of the educationally disadvantaged from…

Byra L4:1 is the Swedish research and development program in education. The authors, while basically enthusiastic about the center, suggest the following ways of improving its operation: explicate priorities for basic and applied research and development, fund all professors and docents for basic research of greatest interest to them, establish…

The national conference "Toward Educational Development in the Community Junior College" was the fifteenth summer junior college conference held at the University of California, Los Angeles. Twelve papers were presented at the conference and emphasized four major topical areas in addition to matters directly related to instruction. Those areas…