A ninth grade home economics course, taught in an Australian high school, was evaluated with the goals of providing staff with information on evaluation procedures and obtaining information upon which judgments and recommendations for change about a particular course could be made. Of key importance in this project was the presence of an outside…

The primary purpose of the Joint Hampton-Michigan program was to train 15 post-doctoral minority and women faculty members from the Hampton Institute (Virginia) and the University of Michigan in educational research skills. A secondary purpose was to investigate the effectiveness of several models through which the researchers were trained. The…

The obvious, persistent, and unfortunate lack of communication and interaction among researchers and research centers provides a starting point and focus for this monograph. Three sets of connections are commonly assumed to be weak: between researchers in the First and Third Worlds; among researchers within the Third World; and between researchers…