Gateway Technical Institute, in Southeast Wisconsin, has developed a vocational evaluation program for physically and mentally handicapped adults. The program incorporates work-sample and classroom or job tryout vocational evaluation, providing a behavioral approach to career planning. (LH)

Describes an Arkansas articulation model in business and office education which attempts to bridge the gap between the traditional experience-based system and the performance-based system by incorporating the strengths of each system. The model includes eight elements and covers the four cluster areas of accounting, office practice, shorthand, and…

The author, who assisted in developing Kentucky's 115 modules for carpentry instruction, describes his competency-based carpentry program in which students use sectional construction methods to build a house on school grounds which is later sold, dismantled, moved, and reassembled on the buyer's lot. (MF)

Minnesota's 916 area vocational institutes which use a competency-based instructional system are described. Components of this instructional system delineated in the article are the setting, mainstreaming approach, grading system, program goals, educational advantages, curriculum and model development, evaluation, and teacher inservice. (BM)

A report on a consortium which is pooling the efforts of 13 states to produce and field-test catalogs of performance objectives, criterion referenced measures, and performance guides for vocational learners. Acknowledgment is made to the training services, materials, and processes made available by the military. (Editor/HD)

A consortium approach in Delaware's State technical schools offers a common B. S. degree competency-based program to persons seeking a teaching career in either trade and industry or industrial arts. (Author/AJ)