This paper elaborates on a list of procedures contained in an accompanying handout entitled "The 27 Steps in the Development Program." These 27 steps are subsumed under 12 categories: 1) research and information collecting, 2) planning, 3) develop preliminary form of product, 4) preliminary field testing, 5) main product revision, 6) main field…

This paper provides information on the cost of the research underlying the Minicourse model as compared with the development cost of the Minicourse packages. It also estimates the cost that would be involved in achieving 30 percent implementation of Minicourses by elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States. Research costs are…