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Download full textBlum, Robert E.; Butler, Jocelyn A. – 1981
This directory provides brief, current information about 50 goal-based education programs of many types, sizes, and scopes throughout the United States. These programs make use of such concepts as minimum competency testing, mastery learning techniques, and continuous progress curricula, among many others. The directory is organized into five…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Mills, Gladys H. – 1980
Focusing on state-mandated minimum competency testing programs, this annotated bibliography cites 200 items selected from more than 700. The Resource Catalog is intended for state education policy makers and therefore includes resource and study guides; legislative and board action; conference speeches, reports and proceedings; curriculum guides,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
In this update, 49 more goal-based programs are added to the 50 programs described in the directory's initial 1981 edition. The programs are goal-based in that they make use of such concepts as minimum competency testing, mastery learning, and continuous progress curricula, among others. As in the initial edition, each program receives a one-page…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Community Involvement, Competency Based Education
Royce, Sherry – 1985
This 310 Special Project performed the following activities: (1) reviewed 10 years of Pennsylvania's materials funded under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act and published six "FOCUS on Curriculum" bulletins describing outstanding projects; and (2) prepared a 1985 addendum to Pennsylvania's listing of publishers' materials for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Bulletins
Coogan, Mark, Ed. – 1980
This report abstracts and summarizes eighty-two Indiana vocational education research and development projects funded in 1978 and 1979 with moneys allocated by Subpart 3 of the Education Amendments of 1976, Title 2, Vocational Education. The projects are grouped into seven subject categories: (1) needs assessment, (2) performance based vocational…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Vocational Education, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs
Lewis, James P. – 1981
This publication contains abstracts of research projects in vocational education conducted in Pennsylvania. The directory also lists the research, exemplary, and curriculum activities which were conducted during the 1979-80 fiscal year. All projects listed were supported with federal vocational funds under Public Law 94-482. Information contained…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education, Cooperative Education
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1982
This catalog of adult education projects for fiscal year 1982 is the fifth in a series of annual listings of education projects funded by states under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act. Included in the catalog are descriptions of 255 developmental activities in the following program areas: adult basic education, administration, adult…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Annual Reports
