A study of industrial arts curriculum priorities was conducted among parents, school board presidents, superintendents, and counselors of secondary schools in Nebraska in order to obtain information from non-classroom individuals who still had an impact on industrial arts programs in secondary schools. For the study, 10 well-accepted general…

An evaluation was made of the third phase of a curriculum development program conducted in Taiwan, Republic of China. This phase of the program, scheduled to run from 1986 to 1990, emphasized the implementation of a new cluster-based vocational curriculum and focused on teacher inservice programs, purchase of laboratory equipment, and improvement…

The evaluation design and findings for nine demonstration school participating in the Indiana Comprehensive Plan for the Arts in Education are reviewed. Each school developed a quality arts education curriculum and shared their approaches with affiliated schools in their networks. The program evaluation design focused on program implementation and…

An evaluation of the elementary school teacher education program at the University of Texas at Austin sought to identify the most important research-based teaching skills in the program, compare perceptions of all members of the program on specific teaching skills, and identify preservice teachers' perceptions of program components. A composite…

The purposes of the document are to report on the status of social studies minicourse programs in selected midwestern high schools and to provide information to schools regarding obstacles to minicourses as alternatives to traditional programs. A 1976-77 survey of 265 midwestern high schools determined that only 60 (23%) of the schools offered…