The Career Opportunities Program (COP), authorized by the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA), has not yet been fully assessed, but the positive results indicate that the participants and their society were enriched by it and such an endeavor on the part of the federal government should continue. (JD)

An understanding of the interdependency of all life and the need for deep-seated changes in economic, political, and educational values on the part of each individual can bring about a sense of personal responsibility and active involvement in the struggle for decent human survival. (JD)

The authors discuss the development of a diagnostic-prescriptive teaching and learning program in the Youngstown public school system; give background material; describe organizational form and implementation; and conclude with a series of "points to ponder" for educators contemplating a similar venture. (MB)

The author presents his experiences in developing a competency-based program of educational media administration using independent prescriptive study and professor-student conferences as a way to observe tight budgetary restrictions. (MB)

Research reports must be taken off the shelf and put into citizen and professional hands to make schooling more effective, meaningful, predictable, measurable, and indispensable. (MM)

Before researchers can adequately establish empirical relationships between teacher behavior as an independent variable and student achievement as a dependent variable, when studying teacher effectiveness, they must deal with the problems of instrumentation, methodology, and statistics. (MM)

The discussion of three impediments associated with scientific inquiry into the nature of teacher effects demonstrates that some of the methodological obstacles confronting educational research can be overcome and that methodologically respectable teacher-effects research can be conducted. (MM)

Eight educational propositions support research that reflects the interacting effects of teacher and learner characteristics on educational outcomes. (MM)

To avoid implementation problems, thought must be given to diagnosis and systematic adaptive planning for the implementation of educational innovations. (MM)

This research inquires whether an ethnographic (descriptive anthropology) approach to the study of teaching could yield new insights into the teaching-learning process. (MM)

Once teachers are aware of and thus able to monitor particular behavior, they begin to act in accordance with their beliefs about optimal teaching; if discrepancies between their present behavior and their stated goals are real, most teachers will change their behavior immediately. (MM)

By training teachers to vary systematically the way in which they performed recitation strategy, it was hoped to determine (1) whether teachers can be trained to control precisely the way they teach when using that strategy and (2) whether different versions have measurably different effects on student learning. (MM)

The two major goals of this study were (1) to estimate the magnitude of the effects of teaching performance and (2) to determine if some teaching performances were more associated with greater pupil learning than others. (MM)

Relationships between classroom instructional practices and test scores, days absent, and observed child behaviors are examined. (MM)

Selected results from the research completed under the Effective Teacher Education Program is presented, and ways are explored in which this research can be applied to teaching. (MM)