Educators in technical education should resolve major differences in philosophy and get on with the basic task of training technicians. (JS)

Describes a cluster concept approach for aerospace technician training in the junior college, student matriculation, flight instruction techniques, instructional equipment, faculty, admission policy, and sources of support. (GR)

The Skyline Career Development Center, Dallas, Texas, combines technical training with academic programs and is organized into 28 career clusters. Community involvement is seen as the prime ingredient and is greatly responsible for 97 percent of the graduating class being fully employed or going on to higher education. (DS)

As part of the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project, Pilot B sought to develop curriculums for the training of paraprofessionals for the human services areas. The curriculum development process followed a systems approach and held to the belief that graduates of these new programs should possess both horizontal and vertical…

Discusses recommendations made by the Massachusetts Advisory Council of Vocational-Technical Education to improve the quality of secondary vocational curriculum. The author examines how and why the recommendations were created, how a hugh agenda was whittled down in scope, and how the council decided to favor the development of "cluster…

A study was conducted to refine and coordinate occupational analysis, job performance aids, and elements of the instructional systems development process for task specific Air Force maintenance training. Techniques for task identification and analysis (TI & A) and data gathering techniques for occupational analysis were related. While TI &…