This visitation form for the reading task force of the California Right to Read program consists of eight categories. "Needs Assessment" asks for information on student performance, teacher performance, resources, and decision making; "Reading Programs" includes philosophy, goals, objectives, and priorities; "Program…

Program descriptions for the School District of Philadelphia's 102 alternative elementary and secondary programs constitute the bulk of this booklet. Descriptions include information on number of students, grade levels, administrative staff, and program purposes. A brief summary of the evaluation of alternative education programs, as well as…

Describes how some of the problems of evaluating noncollegiate educational programs have been circumvented by an Illinois evaluation team (Project for the Evaluation of Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction). (JH)

This paper describes the Mutual Involvement Review Activity (MIRA) procedure for helping teacher education institutions to restructure their programs in the competency mode. This procedure is a device for organizing the use of a consultant team to cover all areas involved in the introduction, development, and operation of a new mode of teacher…

An evaluation of a leadership training program for teaching assistants was made by examining the teaching effectiveness of a group of trained assistants in contrast to an untrained group. Assessments of the teaching assistant's classroom behavior were made by student volunteers, in their respective classes, at four time intervals during the term.…

The report evaluates the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative Career Education Project in eastern Kentucky. The project staff involved personnel from Morehead University, Eastern Kentucky University, Bowling Green and Owensboro, and from the Kentucky State Department of Education in workshops, inservice training, demonstration units, and…

The front matter of the annual report of career education developments in Arizona's elementary and secondary schools consists of a synopsis of Arizona career education activities with bar and pie charts depicting various aspects of the overall career education effort in the State's public schools. The report's first section analyzes the following…

To provide information about changing educational and vocational opportunities for students from small, rural North Dakota secondary schools, a Career Development Institute was established at the North Dakota State School of Science. The purpose of the Institute was to broaden students' knowledge of the opportunities available to them in the world…

This report describes a practicum project that was intended to develop, implement, and supervise a building teacher aide training program and to determine its impact on the performance of forty building teacher aides in the Dallas Independent School District. The design of the training program was to improve the performance of teacher aides in…

This report summarizes the development of the Metropolitan Planning Project's (MPP) plan to voluntarily eliminate racial and ethnic isolation within the schools of the Boston metropolitan area for the periods July 1973 through June 1974, and October 1974 through September 1975. Included in this summarization are a description of the population…

This final report of the State Educational Agencies (SEA) Management of Compensatory Education Project was funded by ESEA Title V-505 and developed in cooperation with ESEA Title I. Seven states participated in this three-year, four-phase collective endeavor, agreeing to develop and field test an approach toward improving the management of…

The proposal describes a demonstration career education project designed to promote career education philosophy, methods, program activities, and evaluation procedures in designated local education agencies (LEAs). The project's title is Academic Enhancement Through Career Education (ACE). The proposal's first section contains the proposal itself…

This report describes the exemplary programs of ten open-door institutions participating in a project supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The project aims at evaluating and refining programs for students who enter college as low achievers, students who have traditionally been discouraged from pursuing…

This project termination report deals with an environmental education curriculum developed by the Center for the Development of Environmental Curriculum and Willoughby-Eastlake City School District (Ohio). During the three years of the project, 34 units for elementary teachers and 34 units for secondary teachers were prepared. All curriculum…

This supplemental report accompanied the project termination report and deals specifically with the design, development, piloting, revision, and evaluation of the secondary curriculum materials developed during the third year of the project. The report is divided into four main sections. Section 1 contains a brief description of the purpose and…