Provided is a guide for school districts interested in adopting the Helping Eliminate Early Learning Disabilities (HEELD) Program, an early childhood learning program developed and operated in Oregon. The HEELD program is described, and guidelines for implementing the four phases of the program are presented. Sections cover each of the phases as…

Establishing and supporting a theoretical view in favor of assessment and evaluation as an adjunct to psychotherapy is clearly a difficult task in view of current anti-testing biases. But translating that viewpoint into practical terms within the environment of an emerging university can prove to be every bit as difficult. The current paper treats…

Interpretive information about the Texas Career Education Measurement Series (CEMS) is provided in this manual. CEMS consists of a battery of 17 instruments--sixteen category tests and one survey instrument--designed to assess the development of secondary students in terms of career education. The manual is in four parts. Part 1 briefly describes…

The volume presents an overview of the secondary Resource Specialist Program for mildly and moderately handicapped students in California and reviews the most promising aspects of the program, directions in which the program appears to be headed, and some ideas on facilitating program growth and change. Included are five chapters with the…

Designed primarily for instructors and others who will use Mountain-Plains produced curriculum products, this orientation guide accompanies twenty-two units of curriculum materials developed to carry out the Mountain-Plains mission of testing and reporting the advisability of residential career education as a method of improving the economic…

This report is written for local educators who are responsible for the administration of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) tests and for other people who are generally interested in the purposes and methodology of MEAP. The 1975-76 assessment will report 19 variables at the student, classroom, school or district levels, in the…

Three Oregon community colleges collaborated to develop a model program to meet the learning needs of educationally disadvantaged students. The model consists of several Outcome Objectives, or goals for the program. The discussion of each objective includes background information relevant to the specific goal and a description of the methods used…

This guide is intended as a basic resource for preschool Spanish/English bilingual home training. It presents an overview of the bilingual project of which it is an outgrowth, and offers guidelines for setting up similar programs. The guidelines cover such topics as: (1) tutor selection, training, and evaluation; (2) recommended materials for…

This plan describes the nature and the extent of the English as a second language (ESL) program in Adult Education in the San Francisco Community College District. The key portion of the Master Plan is the specific-levels component which divides the ESL program into eight distinct levels and gives the scope and limitations of each. At the end of…