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Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. – 1978
A community impact study for Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) was conducted to generate data for institutional planning, management, and evaluation. Specifically, the study involved learning how well KVCC was achieving its stated goals relative to career advancement, personal development, and recreational enjoyment; determining general…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Attitudes, Community Colleges, Community Surveys
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1977
This pamphlet includes several program transcripts on educational research from the National Public Radio series, Options in Education. Dr. Harold Hodgkinson, former Director of the National Institute of Education, and Noel Epstein, Education Editor of the Washington Post, discuss "The Quality of Media Reporting on Education" and whether…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Finance, Educational Radio, Educational Research
Moore, Shirley G., Ed.; Cooper, Catherine R., Ed. – 1982
This volume contains an introductory chapter on the use of research, and 13 reviews of the most recent research findings in selected areas of child development. The reviews are on topics of particular concern to practitioners in education, child care, and health and psychological services, and are appropriate for post-secondary, college-level, and…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education
Download full textEmrick, John A.; Peterson, Susan M. – 1980
For this overview of the extent and feasibility of practitioner involvement in professional improvement, practitioners are defined as school-based professionals--teachers, aides, resource specialists, and administrators. Current thought on the need for these individuals to play major roles as decision makers in developing inservice programs is…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Agents, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making
Louis, Karen Seashore; Kell, Diane – 1981
Linking agents, called "field agents," coordinated and provided educational improvement services to schools participating in the National Institute of Education's Research and Development Utilization (RDU) program. To assess the field agents' roles, attitudes, behaviors, and client relations, researchers surveyed and interviewed agents,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Whaples, Gene C. – 1979
Research can provide insights into problems related to adult basic education (ABE) program success. The potential ABE population is great; for example, the Maryland target group includes nearly 1,097,000. Several studies have revealed that those needing ABE most are least likely to be program participants. Various problems that often overwhelm the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Lionberger, Herbert F.; Pope, LaVern A. – 1978
To identify and describe extension role types, all educational assistants in the Small Farm Program, agricultural specialists, and community development and local government specialists in Missouri were asked to fill out questionnaires asking how frequently they performed 56 activities broadly representing what extension field staff might do.…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Development
Law, Alexander I.; Bronson, William H. – 1977
This guide was designed for trainers presenting inservice workshops for program evaluators, teachers, principals, curriculum specialists, and others responsible for school programs. It is keyed to a companion volume, the Program Evaluator's Guide (ED l42 563), the primary source for workshop participants. Developed under the California Evaluation…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators
Hurst, Barbara Martin – 1979
This paper describes a method of research to examine the process of effecting educational change through adopting innovative ideas. Twenty-nine elementary teachers in the process of adopting a complex curricular innovation were studied. Because of the complex nature of this process, ordering theory was used as the method for analyzing the adoption…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Hainsworth, Jerome C.; Price, William O. – 1976
A Teacher Corps project intended to develop and implement a program of individualized instruction at a local middle school is described. The program is based on the assumption that each student is, in some way, a gifted student. The project adapts educational research in the area of gifted student instruction to a middle-school teacher-student…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research, Gifted
Franchak, Stephen J.; Spirer, Janet E. – 1978
This handbook for state and local education agencies is intended as a reference to assist in initiating and/or improving follow-up systems or studies of former vocational students. A companion volume focuses on follow-up studies of special populations (see Note). Section 1, which contains information on use of the handbook, also introduces the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Research
BOYAN, NORMAN J. – 1967
THE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IS EMPHASIZED AS THE KEY ACTIVITY. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE MID-1950'S BECAME ONE OF THE MOST VIGOROUS AND HOPEFUL PROTAGONISTS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. THE ACTS PASSED AND THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CREATED ARE NOTED AS AGENTS IN THIS NEW…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Development
Paul, Douglas A. – 1977
The purpose of this review is twofold--to summarize the major models of educational change and to present a series of generalizations based on recent empirical studies about educational change. In the first section, previous reviews of the change literature are presented in order to establish a broad perspective concerning research in this area.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Bibliographies, Change Agents, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Suydam, Marilyn N.; Dessart, Donald J. – 1976
This booklet was written to provide elementary-school teachers with an overview of some of the research results related to the development of computational skills, together with ideas for classroom activities which have grown out of research projects. The booklet is organized into twelve sections, the first of which is devoted to delineating the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Computation
Pipes, Lana, Ed. – 1979
The goals and purposes to be served by graduate level professional preparation for educators are examined and redefined in these essays. The authors are experienced as administrators in schools, colleges, or departments of education. The current state of graduate programs in education in terms of the pressures, problems, dilemmas, and…
Descriptors: College Role, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance, Educational Problems
