Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education Office of Study and Research Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education Office of Study and Research Records

Inclusive Dates

1962-1973

Call Number

RG 114

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Study and Research.

Quantity

10.00 cubic feet

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

The Board of Christian Education created the Office of Study and Research in 1961 as part of a general reorganization. The office was established to encourage and facilitate continuing study, education and research activity throughout the staff. Operating as a service agency to all units and personnel, the new office aided in the orientation of new staff as well as in the continuing education and specialized training of persons serving in regular staff positions. Included in these services were provisions for attendance at established educational and training schools and events, and certain on-the-job events made available to staff. Consultative services were also provided to various units of staff to facilitate their approach to experimentation and research in a wide variety of unexplored fields. One of the major responsibilities of the office was to arrange opportunities for the staff to further its acquaintance with ideas and information crucial to their work as Christian educators, and to engage frequently in creative exchange of thinking about such issues with others in related fields of service both within the Church and beyond its institutional boundaries.

Collection Overview

Record Group 114 includes minutes, reports and correspondence from the Office of Study and Research from 1962 until the reorganization of Presbyterian boards and agencies in 1973.

Organization and Arrangement

The collection is in roughly alphabetical order, except for the material in Boxes 1-3. These are mainly records titled "planning" and "projects" and relate to the Board of Christian Education and the Office of Church and Society, except a few which relate to other boards and agencies. The alphabetical arrangement begins in Box 3 Folder 18.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

Collection processed and container list prepared: May 1975
Jane Ramsay, Assistant Records Researcher
Finding aid revised and notes added: February 1991
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Topical Subject

Presbyterian Church Education.

Continuing education.

Genre-form

Minutes. aat

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 114
	2	Central Planning Staff, 1964
	3-4	BCE (Board of Christian Education)--Planning Almanac & Atlas, 1965
	5-6	Christian Faith and Action/Designs for an Educational System--Papers
	7	BCE--Planning, 1969
	8	BCE--Planning, 1970
	9-11	Material for Planning Cabinet Meeting, 1971
	12-13	BCE--Unit Projects, 1971
	14	BCE--Planning--First Quarterly Review, Jan-March, 1971
	15	BCE--Projects--Summary, 1971
	16	BCE--Planning, 1970-71
	17-18	BCE--Quarterly Reviews, 1971
	19	BCE--Quarterly Reviews, 1972
	20	BCE--Projects, 1972
	21-23	BCE--Planning--Instruction Packet Rating Corporate Objectives, 1972
	24-25	BCE--Projects and Quarterly Reviews, 1972

2	1	1972
	2	Department of Church and Society--Projects, 1972
	3	Planning, 1973
	4-6	Projects, 1973
	7-9	Final Version, 1972
	10	Proposals--Department of Church and Society, 1973
	11-13	Quarterly Reviews, 1972
	14	COEMAR--Planning Process
	15	General Council Planning, 1972
	16	Synod Planning, 1971
	17	Planning in the Church, 1971
	18-19	Cabinet Meetings, 1971

3	1	1971
	2	1972
	3	Support Agency - Planning, 1972
	4	Planning, 1968-69
	5	Planning, Basic Planning Information, 1969
	6	Planning, Corporate Plan, 1969
	7	Planning, Basic Divisional Planning Information, 1970
	8	Planning, Basic Planning Information, 1970
	9	"Findings," 1968-73
	10	General Assembly Mission Council--Operational and Structural Design, 1972
	11	Councils on Church and Society, Discipleship and Worship,Church and Race, 1972
	12-14	Support Agency--Proposed Design, 1971-72
	15	Report of the Design Team; Commission on Reorganization of General Assembly Agencies, 1972
	16	Research Division, 1972
	17	Reports of Design Teams for Program Agency and Vocation Agency, 1972
	18	AIM - Program Development Conference, 1970
	19	American Baptist Field Test for Curriculum
	20	Annual Report of Christian Education Data and Analysis, 1966
	21	"Approach"--Christian Educators Study
	22	"Attitudes of U.P. Ministers and Elders on Foreign Aid", 1966-67
	23	"Attitudes Toward Parish Mission"--A Study of Opinions of Worshipers, 1968

4	1-2	Area Evaluating Cabinet I, for N.M., 1964
	5-6	Area Evaluating Cabinet III, for N.M., 1964
	7-8	Area Evaluating Cabinet IV, for N.M., 1964
	9	Area Evaluating Cabinet V, for N.M., 1964
	10-11	Area Evaluating Cabinet VI, for N.M., 1964
	12	Bibliography in Christian Education for Seminary and College Libraries, 1969
	13	"A Study of the Level of Factual Bible Knowledge on the Part of Southern Baptists", 1963
	14	"Bureaucratic Administration from a Client View-point - A Case Study" (Thesis) By Pringle, 1964
	15	Christian Faith and Action/Designs for an Educational System--Market Analysis, 1969
	16	"Characteristics and Attitudes of Church School Teachers", 1971
	17	Christian Education Survey--Pennsylvania Synod, 1965
	18	Church Involvement Study, 1965
	19-20	Officers Training Study, 1968-69
	21	Youth Survey, 1969-70
	22	Report of a Study of Attitudes of High School Students in Pennsylvania, 1969
	23	Manual for Youth Research Survey, 1971
	24	Confirmation Materials - Second Year - Institute for Editorial Research, Stanford, CA, 1963
	25-26	City Church Project
	27	--Listening Devices

5	1-2	City Church Project
	3-4	Communications Systems Development Committee, Minutes, 1969-70
	5-6	COEMAR Planning for 1966 - Vol. 1
	7-8	COEMAR Planning for 1966 - Vol. 2
	9	Contact Evaluation, 1969
	10-11	Continuing Education for the Ministry, 1966-68
	12	Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Exams for Candidates, 1969
	13-15	"Covenant Life" Curriculum Evaluation, 1963-67
	16	"The Crisis in the Nation - PCUS Involvement", 1968
	17-18	Danforth Study, Vols. 1 and 2--Early Draft
	19	Distribution of Churches and Members, 1965
	20	Educational Philosophy Study, 1964
	21	Extension of the Ministry, 1965
	22	Federal/State Funded Programs as Reported in 1967 Annual Report
	23	Field Evaluation Project, 1971-72

6	1	General Council Long Range Planning Committee (LPC)– Minutes, 1965
	2	Long Range/Joint Planning, 1965
	3	Interpretation of Statistical Data (for LRPC), 1967
	4	Consultation on Research Re Coordinated Use of Electronic Data Processing (EDP), 1965
	5	Goals - City and Church
	6	Graduate Survey, 1968
	7	Report on Graduate Survey of National Presbyterian College Scholars
	8	A History of COEMAR, by Rycroft--Working Draft
	9	Information from "Presbyterian Life" - PNES Studies
	10	Instro-Teach, 1967
	11	United Presbyterian Women Study - Interim Report, 1969
	12	JED Study--Issues "Economics, Government, Politics, 1968
	13	"Where is the Church Going" by Garinger, 1969-70
	14	Working Papers
	15-16	Joint Exploration Team--Papers, 1968
	17	LAB Training Advisory Committee Meeting, 1969
	18	Libraries Operation and Libraries Plan, 1969
	19	Local Church Practices Survey, 1966
	20-24	Locally Developed Material, 1968 (Church School Materials Developed by Local Churches, 1968)

7	1-7	Locally Developed Material, 1968
	8	Management Survey, 1969
	9	Market Analysis: Enquiry Magazine, 1970
	10	Material Users Survey, 1969
	11	Northeast Career Center, 1967
	12	Ordination Exams Pretest, 1970
	13	Parish Communicant Education, 1965
	14	Perennial Listening Post Network Project

		Presbyterian Appalachia Research Project

7	15-16	Working Paper, 1968
	17	1968
	18	"A Description of Presbyterian Church School Teachers in Appalachia: Rural-Urban Differences", 1968
	19	A Description of Different Types of Presbyterian Churches in Appalachia"
	20	"The Appalachian Presbyterian: Some Rural-Urban Differences - A Preliminary Report", 1968

8	1	Bibliography on Appalachia - Revised, 1968
	2	Code Book, 1968
	3	"The Southern Appalachian Region", A Survey - Edited by Thomas R. Ford, 1968
	4-5	Research Reports, 1968
	6	Bibliography on Appalachia, 1968
	7	Appalachia Study Conference Call, 1968
	8-9	Correspondence, 1966-67
	10-11	Research Design; Forms for Interviews
	12-13	"A Review of the Literature Pertaining to Appalachia Stressing Attitudes to Social Change and Religious and Educational Orientations", 1967
	14	PCUS--Background Papers for Curriculum
	15	Survey of Curriculum Usage, 1970
	16	PNES (Presbyterian National Educational Survey), 1963
	17	Papers and Bibliography, 1963
	18	Code Book
	19-21	Presbyters--Survey of Attitudes Toward Race, 1968
	22	Pre-Seminary Education - Lilly Endowment Study
	23	Product Analysis and Planning Report

9	24	Program Materials Study, 1966
	1-16	Programmed Instruction Project, 1963

10	1	Project--Education in City Churches, 1969
	2	Project Talent - Measuring Adolescent Personality, 1966
	3-4	Regionals Evaluation, 1969
	5	Religious Textbook Study - Working Copy, 1966
	6	Religious Textbook Study - Tabulation, 1966
	7	Report on Graduate Survey of National Presbyterian College Scholars
	8	Report to the Session of the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church from the Church Survey Committee, 1968
	9	Research Studies - BCE - Education Research Study, 1969
	10	Sales, Enrollment, and Population, 1959-66
	11	"The Situation of Teachers and Other Leaders in the Sunday Church Schools of the Episcopal Church," 1962
	12	Statement about the Sample of Churches Being Used in the Evaluation Program in the Covenant Life Curriculum--PCUS, 1964
	13	Strategy for the Development of New Congregations
	14	Statistical Abstract of the United Church of Christ, 1965-66
	15	Student Expense Survey, 1969
	16	Summer Service Evaluation, 1965-67
	17	A Study of Christian Education Program and Personnel in Michigan Churches, 1965
	18	A Study of "Christian Faith and Life" Circulation, 1948-62
	19	A Study of Continuing Education Programs for the Ministry in the Theological Seminaries of the UPCUSA, 1966
	20	"Styles of Ethical Reflection in International Affairs" 1969
	21	Survey of Adult Study Patterns within the Church School of the PCUS, 1969
	22	Survey of Stewardship of Children and Youth in United Presbyterian Congregations, 1972
	23-25	Temporary Commission on Continuing Education, 1967
	26	Urban Education
	27	Vocational Guidance of Theological Students: A Manual for the Use of the Theological School Inventory
	28	Young Pastors Seminars

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