In this article it is suggested that teacher educators should be prepared to become more actively involved in community directed educational problems in nontraditional areas. (JD)

This article criticizes the California Council on the Education of Teachers for having too narrow a base of representatives and suggests that more teachers and those actively engaged in the schools be included as delegates to the meetings. (JD)

The differing functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain are discussed and means of developing interaction between the two are described. (JD)

SYNCON is a tool to examine future options; it is a process that begins with small groups, merges to larger composite groups, and finally one total group so that all members of a group can contribute towards the solution of a complex problem. (Author)

This article discusses the complex problem of selecting the best qualified candidates for preservice education programs. (JD)

Individualizing any educational program poses the problems of investigating the effects of different environments on different persons and developing appropriate strategies for matching environment to individual learners to enable them to perform to the fullest of their abilities. (JD)

This article describes a method for evaluating instructional scholarship, broadly defined as both the competence and expertise the instructor brings to bear on a subject and the ability to promote student learning of and interest in that subject. (Authors)

This article reports a study undertaken with two major purposes: to develop a profile of the ideal dean of education and to discover the impact of the Ryan Act upon the relative power of the dean of education within the higher education setting. (Author)

The author ponders the question, "How is 'evaluative research' defined?" (MM)

Nonevaluative research in the social sciences means measuring or assessing pheonomena in terms of efficiency; evaluative research means appraising effectiveness. (MM)

The process of building empirical evidence for knowledge about teaching will be long and slow. (MM)

The state of the art of student outcome measurement is in flux. (MM)

The significance of incorporating information regarding nonprogram factors as well as program factors in evaluation of teacher education programs is examined. (MM)

The use of six qualitative research methods in the evaluation of an inservice teacher program is described. (MM)

How well the alumni are applying what they have learned in a teacher preparation program to their first professional position is of major interest on most campuses. (MM)