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Appendix B
Sources of
Information
The Committee used a wide variety of sources to evaluate vocational
education R&D and to describe the structure and management of the R&D
program. In addition to the literature review reported in Appendix A, the
Committee and its staff reviewed evaluations of vocational education,
visited ten state research coordinating units (RCUS), held hearings, inter-
viewed USOE personnel, and conducted a mail survey and a series of
telephone interviews. It should be noted that comments made by person-
nel about their own organizations were verified by others outside those
organizations whenever possible.
Two major projects evaluating the national R&D effort were reviewed,
as well as listings and descriptions of single projects reported to be suc-
cessful. Examples of successful projects were cited by USOE, the South-
wide Research Coordinating Council, and Committee members.
Papers covering a wide range of topics were commissioned by the
Committee and prepared by 15 prominent vocational educators and re-
searchers. In addition, one Committee member prepared a paper on vo-
cational education and women. A list of these papers is presented in
Table B1.
Visits to state RCUS, which are responsible for the management of the
vocational education R&D effort in each state, provided another source of
information for assessing R&D and describing its administration. In order
to gather relatively complete data on the RCUS their functions and the
impact of R&D in their states- ten states were chosen for comprehensive
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Appendix B
TABLE B 1 Commissioned Papers
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Author
Edwin L. Herr, Pennsylvania State
University
Jacob J. Kaufman, Pennsylvania State
University
Merle E. Strong, University of Wisconsin
Title
Carl J. Schaefer, Rutgers University
Grant Venn, Georgia State University
Mary B. Kievit, Rutgers University
Roman Pucinski, Chicago, Illinois
Teh-Wei Hu, Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer, U.S.
Department of Labor
Phyllis D. Hamilton, Stanford Research
Institute
Garry R. Bice, RCU-Knoxville,
Tennessee
Joseph F. Blake, Millersville State
College
David S. Bushnell, Human Resources
Research Organization
Carl E. Thoresen, Stanford University
and Craig K. Ewart, Stanford
University
Henry M. Brickell, Policy Studies
in Education
Elizabeth J. Simpson, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
NOTE: Paper added to series by Committee member Pamela A. Roby, "Vocational
Education and Women."
Guidance and Counseling, Vocational Edu-
cation, Research and Development
Human Resource Development and Voca-
tional Education
The Status of Research Capability in Voca-
tional Education Research and Develop-
ment
Helter-Skelter: Vocational Education R&D
An Analysis of Vocational Education Re-
search and Development Policies from
Three Perspectives
Vocational Education Research and Devel-
opment as a Factor Influencing Teachers
to Change Practices
Vocational Research and Development: Key
to Survival in America's Third Century
An Analysis of the Impact of Applied Re-
search and Demonstration Projects in
Vocational Education
Vocational Education Research and Devel-
opment for Ethnic Minority Students
An Analysis of Dissemination and Utiliza-
tion of Vocational Education Research
and Development Efforts
Dissemination of Research and Development
Products and Results in Vocational
Education
Policy Alternatives in the Evaluation of
Vocational Education
Careers, Counseling, and Control
A Framework for Developing Alternative
Scenarios for Vocational Education R&D
Curriculum Development in Vocational-
Technical Education: The Part I Program
. .
study. States were selected to be representative in four ways: by region,
by amount of federal RCU allotment, by institutional location, and by
administrative responsibility relative to Part D. RCUS in two states were
visited in each of five regions: Northeast, Southeast, North Central,
South Central, and West. Four states receive relatively large allotments
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Appendix B
from the federal government; five, medium-s~zed allotments; and one, a
small allotment. Two of the ten RCUS are based primarily at a university,
the other eight are based in a division of the state department of educa-
tion. In seven states, the RCU directors administer state Part D funds
RCUS in the other three do not. The Committee also chose RCUS that had
both continuity in staging and relatively high quality programs, judged
on the basis of Committee and staff conversations with many RCU di-
rectors and USOE personnel. In addition to the directors of the ten RCUS
selected, Committee stab interviewed a few former RCU directors, those
in charge of Part D administration ~nr1 rlico^~;~+;^- ^-~ -a-'
RCU staff.
~,A ~- on, ano acalt1onal
The Committee conducted a series of hearings in May 1975 to gather
first-hand information from many people knowledgeable about voca-
tional education R&D. Twenty selected organizations were invited to par-
ticipate in the hearings. Two organizations one representing the chief
state school officers and the other representing proprietary schools
chose not to participate. Two others, representing organized student
groups and vocational researchers, were unable to attend, although the
researchers did send written information. In addition to the organiza-
tions, a small number of individuals representing college and university
leadership in vocational education were invited to participate. A total of
24 people participated:
STATE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
State Advisory Council on Vocational Education
John A. Beaumont, Chairman, State Advisory Council on Vocational
Education (Florida)
William Bruce Howell, Executive Director, State Advisory Council on
Vocational Education (Florida)
Council of Chief State School Officers
(Chose not to participate)
National Association of State Directors of Vocational Education
Carl Lamar, Assistant Superintendent for Vocational Education (Kentucky)
National Association of Research Coordinating Unit Directors
Ronald D. McCage, R CU Director (Illinois)
Carry Bice, RC U Director (Tennessee)
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Appendix B
LOCAL LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS
National Council of Local Administrators
Fred Miner, Assistant Superintendent (Lakewood Center, Washington)
American Association of School Administrators
Abram Friedman, Assistant Superintendent, Division of Career/Continuing
Education (Los Angeles, California)
I!lational Association of Large City Directors of Vocational Education
B. J. Stamps, Assistant Superintendent for Career Education (Dallas, Texas)
1 ~ C
National Coordinating Council for Locational Student Organizations
Mildred Reel, National Advisor-Future Homemakers of America
(Washington, D.C.)
Proprietary Schools
(Chose not to participate)
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP
Junior Colleges
Dwight Davis, Dean, Joliet Junior College (Illinois)
Universities
Keith Goldhammer, College of Education, Michigan State University
Alfred H. Krebs, Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute
OTHER
American Personneland Guidance Association
Edwin L. Herr, Pennsylvania State University
AIM/ARM
Joel E. Magisos, AIM/ARM, Center for Vocational Education, The Ohio
State University
Project Baseline
Arthur M. Lee, Director
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American Vocational Education Research Association
Jerome Moss, Jr., University of Minnesota
American Vocational Association, Inc.
Mary Ellis, Technical Education Research Center
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Thomas P. Walsh, Associate Director, Education and Welfare
AFL/CID
John A. Sessions, Assistant Director for Education
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges
Sandy Drake, Director, Research & Data Gathering Department
Network Council
Joseph Kelly, Director, Northeast Curriculum Coordinating Center
Council for Educational Development and Research, Inc.
John K. Coster, Center for Occupational Education (North Carolina)
ERIC Clearinghouse in Career Education
David Tiedeman, Northern Illinois University
Richard Erickson, Northern Illinois University
Appendix B
All witnesses were requested to supply the Committee with written
testimony prior to the hearings. The Committee and its staff developed a
set of preliminary questions to help participants organize their written
comments. The questions solicited information on the management
problems of vocational education R&D, issues requiring additional re-
search, the role or functions of R&D, and evidence of the impact of R&D.
Nearly all witnesses supplied the Committee with written responses.
Another major Committee effort was a survey conducted in September
1975. Committee members identified 16 people whose research was relat-
ed to vocational education and who could cite significant contributions
made by vocational education R&D over the last decade:
Carry R. Bice, Tennessee Research Coordinating Unit
Robert S. Campbell, Center for Vocational Education, Ohio State University
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Appendix B
John Coster, Center for Occupational Education, North Carolina State
University
Mary Ellis, President, American Vocational Association
Edwin L. Herr, Pennsylvania State University
Robert Hoppock, New York University
Ray E. Hosford, University of California, Santa Barbara
G. Brian Jones, American Institutes for Research
Jacob J. Kaufman, Pennsylvania State University
Mary B. Kievit, Rutgers University
Edward Morrison, Ohio State University
Jerome Moss, University of Minnesota
Herbert Parnes, Ohio State University
Merle E. Strong, University of Wisconsin
Grant Venn, Georgia State University
Louise Vetter, Center for Vocational Education, Ohio State University
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A letter posing questions was mailed to these people, followed by a
telephone interview conducted by the Committee's staff.
The Committee informally interviewed many other people who are
directly or indirectly involved in vocational education R&D . Program
officers from the Office of Education were consulted frequently. The staff
attended meetings of the National Network for Curriculum Coordina-
tion in Vocational and Technical Education and a national meeting of
the RCU directors. In addition, the Committee invited Garry Bice of the
Tennessee RCU and Eugene Lehrmann, Wisconsin's Director of Voca-
tional Education, to participate at some of its meetings as resource indi-
viduals. Finally, the Committee conducted two small surveys of the State
Advisory Councils on Vocational Education in order to determine the
extent of their involvement in R&D and to describe their relationships
with the state RCUS. In all, more than 50 people were interviewed and
many more were contacted by mail.
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