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Fleishman, Joel L. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1990
Gives the background of the field of public policy analysis and management beginning in 1967 when scholars at nine institutions designed education programs for careers in public sector decision making. Describes the state of the nation during that period, the original curriculum, changes over time, and the achievements of public policy schools.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Innovation, Graduate Study
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Leonard-Barton, Dorothy – Organization Science, 1990
Describes a case study methodology that combines a three-year longitudinal study with nine retrospective studies about the same phenomenon. Explains how specific strengths in each method compensate for some particular weakness in the other. Suggests circumstances for which dual methodology is especially appropriate. (35 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Concurrent Validity, Field Studies, Innovation
Boonshaft, Peter Loel – Teaching Music, 1996
Recommends commissioning new works as a challenging and motivating learning experience for high school and college bands. Includes several guidelines for negotiating costs and performance rights with the composer, as well as other technical details. Discusses specific problems arising from this arrangement and possible solutions. (MJP)
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Cultural Enrichment, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Reggini, Horace C. – Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones Educativas, 1983
This review of the findings of recent cognitive science research pertaining to learning and teaching focuses on how science and mathematics are being taught, analyzes how the presence of the computer demonstrates a need for radical rethinking of both the theory and the practice of learning, and points out that if educators fail to consider the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Epistemology, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Materials
Adams, R. S.; And Others – 1981
In preparation for the Seventh Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) in June 1981, some of the eminent educators in Asia and the Pacific were invited by the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID) to present their thoughts on APEID. This document contains…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Klinman, Debra G. – 1983
In September of 1981, the Fatherhood Project at Bank Street College in New York City began field research investigating the ways in which America's major social institutions were responding to the call for greater male involvement in childrearing. The research effort attempted to identify innovations in five major institutional sectors: the law,…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Sanacore, Joseph; Rauch, Sidney J. – 1986
After implementing changes in language arts instruction, the principal--who is in a key position to sustain or institutionalize the changes--faces several responsibilities. Factors involved in directing innovations to become "built in" to school programs include solving specific problems, sharing decision-making responsibilities, upgrading and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Rutherford, William L.; Murphy, Sheila C. – 1985
This report is part of a research series on roles of participants in high school change. Investigators administered interview questions to 380 teachers of 18 selected high schools in 9 sites geographically dispersed across the nation. From taped interviews, 54 were chosen for study of teachers' roles in school change, their reactions to change,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, High Schools
Cox, John W. – 1984
A nationwide study was undertaken to gain insight into the process of instructional innovation within higher education visual arts programs. Existing theory provides little insight into the innovation process within arts programs offered at the college/university level. Moreover, the economic pressures facing higher education and a demographically…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Research, Educational Theories
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Friedman, Edward A.; And Others – Machine-Mediated Learning, 1987
Reviews articles appearing in this issue, which focus on the influence of computers on teaching design to undergraduates, and discusses involvement of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), EDUCOM, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), and the FIPSE Technology Study Group (FTSG) in work that led to these papers. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Activities, Design, Higher Education
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Hurly, Paul; Hlynka, Denis – Computers and Education, 1984
Identifies recurring limitations of instructional technologies often overlooked by proponents, examines barriers to educational innovation and the political context of change, and presents guidelines for optimizing instructional technologies and consolidating change. References are made to educational technology articles and texts throughout.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Change
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Penick, John E.; Crow, Linda W. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1989
Describes 15 innovative college science programs identified by the Society of College Science Teachers. Gives nine generalizations regarding the programs. (YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Internship Programs
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Cohen, LeoNora M. – Roeper Review, 1996
A process model for guiding explicit, systematic, and observable reflections on the state of gifted education is suggested, based on Ann Kerwin's Map of Ignorance. Use of the model is recommended for determining what is known and what is unknown in order to develop an agenda for future research and clarify practice and theory. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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Gelzheiser, Lynn M.; Meyers, Joel – Exceptionality, 1996
The researchers who conducted a study of the views of regular elementary teachers toward provision of special services through either "pull-in" or "pull-out" programs consider the researcher's role as change agent. The authors stress the timing of their research (with new legislation mandating consultant teacher services) and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Educational Researchers
Schneider, Barbara, Ed.; McDonald, Sarah-Kathryn, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006
This book explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Research, Educational Change, Intervention
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