To describe the information-seeking behavior of local administrators, teacher educators, state directors, and state supervisors of vocational education, data from four previous studies were examined and user profiles were prepared for each of the four groups. The profiles contained information describing these eight dimensions of information…

Outlines the roles of the following groups in creating and maintaining a quality school art program: superintendents and boards of education, principals, parent teacher organizations, state art supervisors, classroom teachers, local art supervisors, and certified art specialists. (SJL)

Three articles by national business education leaders discuss the challenge faced by the profession and offer ideas on meeting that challenge. They offer policy statements regarding the role of the business education state supervisor and at-risk students in the business education program. (JOW)

Responses to 3 surveys (165 of 250 Indiana business/industry/labor advisory board members, 188 of 242 Indiana trade and industrial teachers and directors, and 43 of 55 state supervisors) identified generic skills needed in the curriculum and recommended a focus on new and emerging technical areas. (SK)

The achievement of more adequate vocational guidance services in the nation's schools through the improvement of state supervisory service, was the major objective of the seminar. In additon to 72 state guidance supervisory staff members from 47 states, seminar participants and leadership personnel included 14 counselor educators, 12 state-level…

To determine the standards utilized in most states for vocational agricultural facilities, state supervisors of vocational agriculture and head teacher trainers of agricultural education were surveyed in the 48 continental states. The 27 state standards received in response provided the basis for development of 41 summary tables of recommendations…

Summarizes a 1979 national survey on art(s) education. Results are discussed under four headings: professional staff; educational programs; state department responsibilities; and arts in general education. Tables include numbers of full-time art teachers, teacher education graduates, and state personnel, plus time allotments for elementary art…

Responses from 40 of 50 state supervisors of vocational agriculture and other administrators at the state level identified problems in program administration and supervision. It was found that lack of accurate employment data was the most serious problem, followed by increased high school graduation and college entrance requirements and public…

A SUMMARY IS GIVEN OF ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED DURING THE 1964-65 SCHOOL YEAR AS PART OF THE PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AUTHORIZED BY TITLE III OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT. SIGNIFICANT GAINS CITED BY STATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPERVISORS ARE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONGER SEQUENCES OF STUDY, GROWTH IN…

To develop a basis for understanding the relationships between change orientation of state supervisors of vocational education and selected individual, intraorganizational, and extraorganizational factors, 12 major hypotheses and 63 pairs of null and alternative hypotheses were formulated upon the basis of a theoretical framework. Responses to a…

This followup study was conducted 1 year after the 1966 National Seminar on Vocational Guidance. Questionnaires were sent to 85 participants from the 47 participating states; replies were received from one or more participants from 80 percent (38) of the states. Reports received described 215 outcomes either attributable specifically to the…

The central purpose of this study was to identify the role of state field supervision of vocational education in Ohio in relation to change as perceived by supervisors and their reference groups. The primary task was accomplished in part by testing the following hypotheses: (1) The supervisors' reference groups differ in their perception of the…

Research showed that vocational agriculture teachers, state supervisors, and teacher educators all ranked the following tasks as high priority: involvement with family, teaching in the classroom, providing on-farm instruction, involvement with discipline problems, determining curriculum, and advising meetings and activities of the Future Farmers…

This study was designed to determine the number of states that are currently implementing Science-Technology-Society (STS) education and similar society-based, science education programs (STS-surrogates) in the United States and to describe the nature of this implementation. STS is operationally defined as the interaction between science,…

Part 3 of a 6-part series of pamphlets contains anecdotes of a vocational agriculture teacher's (who was also a State Supervisor) experiences in both young farmer and adult farmer programs. The pamphlet, based on actual happenings, is intended primarily for use in pre-service and in-service vocational agriculture teacher education and presents…