The Alberta Vocational Centre (AVC) Transitional Vocational (T-V) Program, in Edmonton, began in 1982. The program currently employs six instructors to provide a postsecondary employment-oriented program for mildly mentally disabled adults. The yearlong program is offered in two sessions and has an approximate enrollment of 30 incoming students…

This quarterly contains 11 bulletins that profile marketing campaigns for the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) that have been implemented successfully in local programs throughout the United States. For each program, the description provides information on the operator, funding, results, time span, background, marketing/public relations…

Designed to broaden awareness of the Texas Education Computer Cooperative (TECC) and its efforts to develop products and services which can be most useful to schools, this publication provides an outline of the need, purpose, organization, and funding of TECC and descriptions of 19 projects. The project descriptions are organized by fiscal year in…

Despite consensus on the administrative reforms needed in school effectiveness programs, policy problems are raised when administrators and school boards want to translate research findings on school improvement into practical terms. Although school systems are now using a number of organizational tools that lift standardized test scores (for…

As early as July 1974, the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI), a computer-based aid to career decision making, had been identified for possible use at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). A task force that intensively studied SIGI and its potential for use within NTID recommended that it be brought to NTID. For…

This paper presents the State of New Jersey Board of Education's evaluation of the Operation School Renewal (OSR) Program, a multi-year assistance program involving the urban school districts of Trenton, East Orange, and Neptune Township (New Jersey). Goals included the following: (1) attendance improvement; (2) reduction of disruptive pupil…

The development of a graduate survey at Ohio Dominican College is described, and guidelines for implementing a graduate survey are provided. The survey assessed student characteristics, activities during college, endeavors after graduation, and attitudes, goals, and values. Project goals included: developing a graduate survey that could also be…

This manual describes a project (a joint, cooperative venture among local businesses, Roberta B. Tully School--Louisville, Kentucky--and the Kentucky State Office of Vocational Education) that outlines the process for beginning a community-based vocational education program for mentally, physically, and multiply handicapped students. Section I…

Directed to college of education faculty members, this paper provides practical advice for developing model education projects by means of interagency cooperation. The first section describes the numerous Macomb Projects that have received state and federal funding including Handicapped Children's Early Education Program funding. Projects focus on…

This report describes the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a coordinated staff development program to offer certified, non-degree credit to non-professional librarians from small public libraries. The program plan includes a course consisting of five 3-hour sessions covering the reference interview; interlibrary loan, government…

Twenty-nine case studies presented in this document, all drawn from the ERIC data base and thus accessible through ERIC microfiche collections, have as their common denominator the efforts of individuals, organizations, and agencies to affect and/or accommodate change through environmental education. Their targets, representing all age levels,…

Advice is given for institutions applying for Group Projects Abroad (GPA) grants. Information is based on the successfuil planning and implementation of projects for preservice teachers in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. An outline and discussion is offered of factors that must be carefully examined to assure success of a GPA proposal: (1) quality of the…

The Secondary Chinese Bilingual Education Program, which operates at two high school sites in New York City, is designed to develop English language skills and provide academic and vocational instruction to Chinese speakinq students of limited English proficiency. This report describes the program as it was implemented in 1980-81. The program…

The Trilingual Education Learning Environment (TELE) is a basic bilingual instruction program designed to enhance academic and linguistic skills of students with limited English proficiency, and provide supportive services for program participants. This report describes the program as it was implemented during the 1980-81 school year, for third to…

The System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) has been implemented at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) to study its effectiveness and utility with a hearing-impaired college population. SIGI is composed of six interrelated subsystems: values, location, comparing, predicting, planning, and strategy. Each subsystem…