The fourth annual secretary of agriculture report on rural development progress (prepared in response to a directive from the Rural Development Act of 1972) presents the most recently available status data on employment, income, population, housing, and community services and facilities, discusses examples of federal efforts to improve or expand…

To clarify the relationship between an educational innovation and its setting, a pilot study was conducted in three schools which housed the Follow Through Program. Personal interviews were conducted with approximately fifteen Follow Through and non-Follow Through administrators, teachers, and associates who had some contact with the program.…

Skills in comprehending the spoken language source are becoming increasingly important due to the audio-visual orientation of our culture. It would seem natural, therefore, to adjust the learning goals and environment accordingly. The video-cassette machine is an ideal means for creating this learning environment and developing the listening…

The purpose of this three-year evaluation was to determine the effects of a newly designed curriculum for early adolescents. From a pool of 600 applicants, students were randomly assigned to the new curriculum school and to traditional schools curriculum. A number of measures of the implementation of the curriculum and its effects on students were…

Various dimensions of this national education and leadership program are explored by this case study that presents both successful and unsuccessful aspects of its components. The major objective of the National Program for educational Leadership (NPEL) is to establish a national consortium and national network of educational leaders who will work…

Intended for use by media specialists at all levels, this volume joins two preceding editions in reviewing the current status of educational media, instructional technology, librarianship, information science, and telecommunication. First is a collection of essays which address the following topics: 1) perspectives on educational media; 2) major…

An indepth study was performed to assess the present status of dissemination in the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to develop a conceptual framework that would provide a rational base for a dissemination policy, and to recommend an organizational plan for the management of the dissemination activity within…

Five articles on computer use in higher education and three final papers presented at the Association for Educational Data Systems (AEDS) 1976 convention are included in this document. Implementing and evaluating computer technology in higher education is the subject of two articles, and another article describes instructional and administrative…

Two innovations were brought to a teachers' college: television was introduced, and it was proposed to merge the college with a university. This study investigated the impact of the two types of change on the social system of the teachers' college from the point of view of the staff. A reaction process paradigm was conceptualized and 31 members of…

The nationwide need for maintenance of skills programs for students who discontinue their language studies 1-3 years before college is explained. Figures based on a national questionnaire identify the extent of this need, and possible program objectives and structure are suggested. Major attention is directed to such student activities as…

Education should make human use of human resources. Conversely, those elements of instruction and learning which are non-human in nature are appropriate for technological implementation. Research findings in the latter area make possible the utilization of technology in education. Part I of this book considers the relationship of media to:…

Recent reform in Finnish elementary-level schools is affecting secondary and higher education as well. The five articles in this Bulletin describe some of the changes. "The Goals of School Democracy Reform" is a statement of educational goals: a democratic citizenry, educational planning coincident with national goals, the guarantee of…

The extent to which the use of the Graphics Expression Reading Improvement System (GERIS) improved the reading skills of Title I was investigated. The GERIS program, which combines an eight-step process in language skill development with student-created television productions, was used at two schools during the 1972-73 school year. One hundred…

Component aspects of Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs (PLAN), a systems approach to individualized education on the elementary and secondary school levels, are discussed. PLAN, which has been in operation in twelve selected school districts in California and in the northeastern U.S. since 1966, focuses on assisting the individual to…

This collection of readings is intended for those concerned with directed social change--researchers, social planners, administrators, and social scientists. The papers address such issues as the nature of the evaluation task, the role of evaluation research in programs of directed change, the organizational context in which evaluation research is…