Graduate Program

Educational Administration

Degree Name

Education Specialist (EdS)

Semester of Degree Completion

1985

Thesis Director

Floyd A. Landsaw

Abstract

The Curriculum Media Development Center was conceptualized by the Illinois Office of Education and Vocational Services and the Illinois Depaartment of Corrections to meet the need for specially developed instructional materials in reading and math for Title I students being served by School District 428. The project began in 1974 and was located at the Illinois Youth Center, St. Charles. However, during 1979, it became apparent that because of its location in Kane County, the Curriculum Media Development Center was providing services primarily to those institutions in the northeast quadrant of Illinois. In January of 1980 the decision was made to relocate this project to the Department of Corrections headquarters in Springfield, Illinois in an effort to make it more accessible to all institutions within the state.

This study represents an attempt by this researcher to determine if the Curriculum Media Development Center is in fact more responsive to the requests for materials from all institutions, both adult and juvenile, since its relocation to Springfield; and from which group of educators, Title I or Core Curriculum, those requests originated.

Data for this study was gathered from an analysis of the production request forms for Fiscal Year 1980 and Fiscal Year 1982, the years immediately preceding and following the year in which the Curriculum Media Development Center was moved to Springfield. In Fiscal Year 1980, forty-three percent of all requests originated in the Juvenile Division. In Fiscal Year 1982 only twenty-two percent of all requests originated in the Juvenile Division, and seventy-eight percent from the Adult Division. Coincidentally, this is the same percentage of students served by School District 428 in each division. The data does indicate that relocating the Curriculum Media Development Center to Springfield generated more requests from those institutions located in the southern portion of the state (six adult, two juvenile). However, the data does not support the contention that the juvenile division has suffered because of the move but rather that the adult division has simply submitted more requests during the period of this study.

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