Elementary school teachers and their supervisors were surveyed to determine their perceptions of supervisory tasks. (GW)

This paper reports on the final phase of a three-part study on the status of instructional supervision within several New York City public schools. In the first parts of the study the researchers found, through extensive use of surveys (questionnaires and interviews), that centralized educational reform had serious consequences for instructional…

A SURVEY OF EXISTING FIELD EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS IN THE 18 CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGES WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A HIGH-QUALITY SUPERVISED FIELD-EXPERIENCE PROGRAM IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION. DATA FOR MAJOR FINDINGS WERE COLLECTED FROM (1) A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, (2) AN EXAMINATION OF FIELD-EXPERIENCE…

In this 1980 survey, K-12 teachers in Tennessee were asked to identify those qualities of instructional leaders that they considered most helpful. Eleven characteristics are ranked under each of three broad categories: Personal Characteristics and Skills, Professional Characteristics and Skills, and Management Characteristics and Skills.…

A group of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development members was surveyed to determine the relative importance of 17 selected issues relating to supervisory practices. (Author/MLF)

Identification of the types of supervised occupational experience (SOE) obtained by Iowa vocational agriculture students. A research project conducted at Iowa State University. (HD)

Integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into a centralized education system such as Turkey's depends on its successful design and application, which is an expensive and complex process. The aim of this study was to identify the issues related to integrating computer technologies into a centralized education system. Data were…

An innovative, entertaining television series, "The Electric Company" (TEC), was designed by Children's Television Workshop to help teach basic reading skills to seven-to-ten year olds either at home or in school. This report discusses two in-school audience surveys of TEC utilization--a Fall 1971 survey of elementary school principals…

The purpose of this study was to determine and develop the elements of an organizational plan for the administration and supervision of secondary vocational trade and industrial education. The study included a survey of pertinent literature, including the Smith-Hughes Act, the provisions of Public Law 88-210, and the Alabama State Plan for…

Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…

In a number of respects, principals of rural schools encounter problems different from their counterparts in urban schools, e.g., fewer supportive services are available to assist principals in administering programs for disadvantaged pupils, rural patrons often resist curriculum innovations and new teaching techniques, and any guidance services…

Toward the close of the school year 1912-13 the United States Commissioner of Education sent a letter to all school superintendents who have rural schools under their supervision, asking them to report to the Bureau of Education anything of unusual or special value that had been done in the schools during the past year or two. These…

The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to July 1, 1924; appropriated $116,727,895.38 for various phases of educational endeavor. Of this sum, $59,313,857.68 was paid to or set aside for colleges and other institutions for whites, $6,902,813.91 for educational institutions for negroes; and $999,207.09 for miscellaneous…