The purpose of the Career Education Program in the Paint Valley Local School District (Ohio) was to provide career education experiences for students in the district that would enable them to make valid decisions in relation to career education based upon a sundry of planned vocational experiences provided by the district staff and project…

This report summarizes a project designed to develop vocational educational programs and services for educationally disadvantaged and physically handicapped students at Fresno City College, California. The introduction provides an overview of the two phases of the project: phase I, a needs assessment; and phase II, curriculum development and…

Proceedings in the areas of textiles and clothing and management are presented in this third-workshop report of the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education (MATCHE), a preservice home economics teacher education curriculum design. Presentation areas include new developments and trends in home management, new trends and…

Thirty-one models on population education for teacher training, evaluation of training, and values clarification are presented in this report. Some models were developed in the United States and others were designed by educators in the Philippines. The objective of the report is to compile the models as a guide for population education program…

This booklet describes the concepts behind the Architects-in-School Program and summarizes the program's successes and some of the problems it has encountered during its two years of implementation. Detailed descriptions of 48 program implementations in 26 States are provided. Each description is presented alphabetically by State and includes…

This report outlines the activities of the University of British Columbia's (UBC's) Center for Continuing Education during the academic year 1977-1978. The first of four sections reviews the development of degree-credit courses and non-credit courses in the guided independent study program. Section 2 discusses the expansion of UBC continuing…

This study examines the effectiveness of an accountability system--Alter--whose aim is to facilitate long-term planning. The purpose of the study was to develop a model that school systems can use in implementing accountability systems. The project explored the idea that when formal management systems are introduced into schools, they ignore…

The Corpsmember Training Institute (CMTI) is a three-week living and learning experience for all new Teacher Corps Interns and Team Leaders. The first CMTI planning process is documented in this report. The first chapter serves as an overview of the planning process. It provides a brief description of the sequence of planning events, and discusses…

To assist regional planning efforts, this study reviews methods for successful articulation programs (between secondary and postsecondary occupational education) that have been identified and suggested by previous studies. Thus, it can serve as a guide for those leaders who are planning articulation programs or those ready to launch and promote…

Compiled from papers written by project linkers after they spent two and one-half years working with schools, this report describes the Northwest Reading Consortium, a program linking schools in Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and Oregon with research and development (R&D) resources for improving reading instruction. The function of the linking…

This paper explores the potential psychoeducational value of a perceptual-motor screening program designed to evaluate kindergarten and first grade children in a public elementary school. The possibility of providing such a service within the framework of a university training program is examined, and the value to the university and the community…

The use of adventure based education is a new and relatively unresearched but apparently successful practice in the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents. Courses offered by schools, state social service systems, juvenile courts, youth service bureaus, and other agencies are generally patterned after the standard Outward Bound course and involve…

This proposed magnet school program for individualized learning is intended to promote desegregation and provide improved educational opportunties for students from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds in Cleveland. A detailed description of the program's curriculum covers subject content, learning objectives, instructional strategies, anticipated…

A junior level field based practicum course involving potential student teachers and their cooperating teachers is described. Students and teachers meet during the first week of the course in an informal, relaxing atmosphere to become better acquainted and to share procedures, expectations, and general information on the course. Student teachers…

A project was conducted to study impacts of vocational education research and development with special emphasis on the job placement and followup program in Indiana. The specific objectives were (1) to investigate the impact of R & D projects in vocational education and the conceptual and methodological problems in impact studies, and (2) to…