The effect of individualized instruction programs on academic achievement and selected school related attitudes of elementary school children was studied. It was hypothesized that students in individualized programs would have significantly higher achievement scores, more positive attitudes toward school and self, greater self-direction, and…

Major steps of the change process include research, development, diffusion, and adoption, each with its specific objective and relation to change. Each of these steps can be further categorized into a number of particular activities by which each step is accomplished. The kinds of educational research performed in the United States are influenced…

Project PRIMES (Progress Research in Meeting Elementary Standards) is a Title III ESEA funded project charged with assisting Columbus (Ohio) public and parochial elementary schools in an on-sight evaluation of science programs. The population included nine schools in Columbus. Input was received from 9 principals, over 90 teachers and 140 parents.…

To determine both whether the speech of fourth graders designated as Title I students differs significantly in any way from that of non-Title I fourth graders and whether there are regional features in the speech of these students which would handicap their performance on a nationally standardized test, 68 children from the intermediate unit and…

The need to coordinate the research being done in vocational and technical education is all too apparent. Numerous government agencies, universities, foundations and research centers are among those involved directly or indirectly in this type of research. Puerto Rico sought to maximize the benefits from these research activities by establishing a…

A description of the two major outcomes of Trenton's Title III project, "Building a Comprehensive Planning Capability Using EPPBS", is given. The author first briefly reviews the planning system which resulted from the project, entitled the System for Trenton's Educational Planning (STEP). Following this, a detailed overview of the other…

This booklet contains an evaluation of the Urban Environmental Education Project instituted in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Data were obtained from interviews and questionnaires given to project staff, teachers, and students. Seven objectives were evaluated to rate the program: (1) assisting teachers in developing programs and…

This publication reports the results of an evaluation program to determine the effect of an interdisciplinary, K-12 environmental curriculum. The objectives of the evaluation program were twofold. First, to develop and validate evaluative instruments which would measure the impact of the environmental curriculum materials on students. Both…

This report describes a 1-week institute designed to upgrade research and evaluation skills of persons associated with PL 89-10 Title I and Title III projects. The institute's objectives were to illustrate and provide experience in: (1) operationalizing objectives of instructional programs; (2) designing projects with appropriate controls to allow…

In March 1973, a door-to-door District census was directed by the Olympia Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Project Office (Illinois). Assisted by the Olympia Citizens Advisory Council and over 300 volunteers, the ESEA Office obtained population data from the census for the rural area. At the same time, a questionnaire to…

A project facilitated learning of disadvantaged students in 7th and 8th grade social studies classes through the presentation of visuals designed to vividy the presented subject matter. In a number of experimental classrooms teachers used approximately twice as many visuals in their living classrooms as in a number of control classes. Objectives…

Project SKILL (Skill Development Through Individual Learning Levels) was developed and tested for three years at Midland School, Washington. This final report describes the context of the project, and provides a description of the scope of the project and an evaluation of its effectiveness. The goals of the project were to: (1) individualize…

The designs for measuring the effectiveness of personalized educational prescriptions in a pilot second-grade classroom for the first and second years are presented. The analysis of pretest and posttest data is also given. (See TM 001 363 for summary report of the project; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 365-374.) (MS)

This paper discusses the supervisory use of one observational system -- Observation Schedule and Record, Form 5V (OScAR 5V). OScAR 5V refers to a series of observation schedules to develop techniques for obtaining an objective, quantitative record of observed classroom behavior that could be scored on dimensions of teacher behavior. Under this…

Management science is defined as the basic process or function of rational decision making. The concept of educational research is expanded to include use of new management techniques developed by the private sector which are adaptable to decision making in the total educational context. Four trends in the field of educational research are briefly…