This monograph describes in detail how a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), or Keller Plan, approach was implemented in a large statistics course at Massey University, New Zealand. Some of the strengths and weaknesses of the scheme are explored and possible extensions noted. Major areas covered are subject area (statistics), logistics,…

The report describes a project whose major thrust was to personalize students' learning experiences, through the community's occupational environment, in developing a strong guidance-based career education program for elementary grades. A series of staff workshops and small study groups focused on the development of career awareness programs and…

A survey was conducted to determine attitudes of administrators, teachers, students, and parents of students in schools using the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, Inc. (I/D/E/A) Change Program for Individually Guided Education (IGE). The study took over two years, and reached a sample of the 1,200 schools in 36 states.…

The report examines the attitudes of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to an interview schedule (included in an appendix) administered near the end of the first program year (1972-73). Regarding post-high school plans most…

The report assesses the ability of the 44 Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) students to maintain their expected academic competence as measured by a nationally normed achievement test, the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, administered at different times during the 1972-73 program year. The…

The report examines demographic and attitudinal characteristics of the 44 students who entered the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program in September 1972 and January 1973. The data were obtained from student information sheets completed in February 1973. Regarding home and family life, the majority…

The report examines the use of student activity sheets in evaluating the performance of students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. All activity sheets completed during the second semester of 1972-73 for selected participants in the following subject areas were examined and are analyzed…

The evaluation summary covers the first year's operation of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The report's first section describes the student, employer-related, and parent-related goals of the program; program operation and costs; and replication concerns (transportation, costs per…

The report analyzes the values of the Career Development Inventory (CDI) as a means of assessing the vocational maturity of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The test instrument measures attitudinal and cognitive skills which correspond with program goals, and was…

The report examines the attitudes of parents of 31 of the 44 students in the Appalachia Education Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to a standard interview form (which appears in an appendix). Twelve interviews involved both the mother and the father of the student;…

The report evaluates attitudinal changes among the 44 Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) students during the 1972-73 academic year, as measured by the semantic differential, a test in which students were asked to select one of seven spaces separating bipolar adjectives for each of 20 pairs of adjectives…

The report investigates the pattern of interests among the 44 students at the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program during the fall, winter, and spring of the 1972-73 program year as measured by the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS). Group One students (those matriculating in September 1972)…

The report describes an evaluation of seven affective and cognitive traits of 40 of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program during the 1972-73 program year as measured by the Student Information System (SIS). All students were tested in February and in May 1973; Group One…

Presented is the summary report of the Third Annual Conference of the Title VI-G Network which was designed to update learning disability (LD) professionals on pertinent program and education developments, to inform them of future trends and plans, and to offer concrete help in their present work. Introductory sections provide a schedule of the…

Intended for teachers and educational administrators in Illinois, the instructional program presents an overview of parent rights related to decisions in educational programming for handicapped students. Considered are eight major areas of parent/student rights--areas in which misunderstanding and problems are most likely to occur. Each topic is…