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Dobbert, Daniel J. – 1975
The concept of competency-based (CB) curriculum was applied to the College of Pharmacy in March, 1975, after extensive study of the idea. Establishment of a CB curriculum was viewed as a project with several components: competency identification, validation and evaluation of competencies, assessment of the presence of competencies, instructional…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements
Tobias, Richard – 1971
Directed at the manpower counselor, this report describes the project's experiences in teaching job-required behavioral skills to the hardcore through systematically prescribed group counseling interventions. While describing the overall system, it focuses on the detailed presentation of the prescribed group counseling interventions developed, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Download full textLinder, Gene; Lonsdale, Helen C. – 1975
The Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) adopted a coordinated approach called the "courseware team concept" to effectively merge content and video production expertise in television programing. To encourage involvement and participation by the entire staff in the production of a television series, a system was designed to avoid an…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, Educational Television
Lonsdale, Helen C.; McWilliams, Alfred E., Jr. – 1975
The Program Component of the Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) developed the programing for a television series on career planning for junior high school students. A program called "Time Out" was designed, developed, and implemented to be broadcast throughout the Rocky Mountain States. A staff of educators and communicators…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications Satellites, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs
Beard, Karen L.; Lonsdale, Helen C. – 1975
The Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) produced a series of 81 television programs called the "J-series" for junior high school students. This material was used to illustrate real life situations for a career development program. Because materials were expensive, the decision was made to produce "in-house" programs and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications Satellites, Educational Programs, Educational Television
Jewish Vocational Service, Chicago, IL. – 1971
The project was designed to test the feasibility of a variety of service techniques to assist chronically unemployed older workers in obtaining employment. Individuals between the ages of 45-65 who were unemployed for at least 15 months were eligible for the project. The clients were assigned to three basic groupings: (1) a rehabilitation workshop…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Educational Programs, Employment Services, Feasibility Studies
Taylor, Nancy, Ed. – 1978
In an effort to clearly illustrate the most effective approach when seeking Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) validation, this report describes four different educational programs. A program involving prekindergarten special students, and a project entailing a systems approach for disadvantaged elementary school students, were awarded…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Programs, Elementary Education, Eligibility
Lonsdale, Helen C. – 1975
Because 16mm film programs for classroom use are expensive and distribution is unpredictable, the Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) established a Materials Distribution Service (MDS) to transmit material via satellite to rural sites in the Rocky Mountains. The STD leased 300 programs from Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Educational Programs, Educational Television
Dale, Joyce B. – 1975
Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) was designed to provide data on the use of a satellite to deliver educational programs to 56 rural-isolated schools in eight Rocky Mountain States. Three series were broadcast: (1) a junior high school career development, (2) career development for public school administrators and teachers, and (3) topical…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications Satellites, Educational Programs, Educational Television
Esposito, Andrew J.; Thompson, Walter B. – 1976
This report chronicles the East Hartford, Connecticut, Parents' Choice Project--an education voucher plan. The plan was intended to dovetail with the school system's already-existing open enrollment policy and was to include the area's private and parochial schools, as well as all the public schools. The feasibility and implementation studies…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Finance, Educational Programs, Educational Vouchers
Connolly, A. J.; Lonsdale, Helen C. – 1975
The "Time Out" series designed by the Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) used a variety of formats, vehicles, and characters to explain career concepts to junior high school students. A science fiction set with a futuristic approach, called the Time Control Center (TCC) used vehicles to move forward and backward in time to access a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications Satellites, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs
Lonsdale, Helen C.; O'Neill, Donald W. – 1975
To implement a career education program for junior high school students in the rural, isolated areas of the Rocky Mountain States, Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD) tested the use of a satellite-assisted communications system for the delivery of social services. A magazine was designed to promote acceptance of the television programing and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications Satellites, Educational Programs, Educational Television
