A description is given of an inservice program designed to provide both the means by which schools can change and also the means by which individual teachers can work toward advanced degrees and higher levels of state certification. The focus of this program is on the school and the classroom learning environment in which the graduate student's…

Summaries are presented of 15 case studies conducted at Illinois Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) regions to determine the kind of credentialing mechanisms that exist for awarding academic credit or some other record of achievement to those eligible participants who complete CETA training programs. Introductory material describes…

This paper focuses on the activities of colleges and universities providing options for the assessment of prior learning for adult students. The paper emphasizes programs with associate and baccalaureate degree-granting institutions in the United States and Canada. It is aimed at faculty members, practitioners, administrators, and policy-makers,…

This special report documents the results of the program of credit by examination offered at the University of Texas at Austin during the 1984-1985 testing year. The data present a basis for a comprehensive picture of the impact of the program on this campus. The examinations covered 64 subject areas with 234 courses taught by 39…

Suggestions are made for developing a successful inservice course for credit. Advice is given for program coordinators, inservice councils, and instructors. Suggestions are also made for followup to ascertain if the competencies acquired during the course are being put to use in the classroom. (JD)

Critiques a Scottish proposal to convert liberal adult education into credit-bearing courses for funding purposes. Argues that this would reduce access and narrow curricular offerings for certain groups and that wholesale accreditation should not displace all other agendas and goals for adult and continuing education. (SK)

The Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) (Utah) implemented a concurrent enrollment program in the 1989-90 academic year that provides high school students with an opportunity to enroll in college-level courses and receive college and high school credit. This study evaluated enrollment data for students who had completed concurrent enrollment…

The intent of this study was to determine whether selected cognitive and affective differences existed between high school students who enrolled in a one-semester course on career development and those who did not. Time and quality of experiences appeared to be significant contributors to affective and cognitive gains. (CT)

The report documents the development and the results of the educational program in the Saskatchewan Penitentiary from 1971 through 1974. Available from: Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N OWO. (MW)

The first 10 years of operation of the college-in-prison program in Massachussetts and characteristics of participating offenders were assessed. College credit courses have been offered to inmates in adult corrections facilities by The University of Massachusetts at Boston through a program called the Higher Education Prison Program (HEPP).…

The first part of a report on a comprehensive review of the credit instructional programs offered by Pasadena City College (PCC), this volume provides a description of the evaluation procedures used, and a discussion of general issues that are major considerations for program improvement. Section I introduces the program review in terms of its…

The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges reports annually to the Board of Governors on the number and types of new community college programs and courses approved during the preceding academic year. This state-level approval is based on the following criteria: appropriateness to the system's mission, need for the program or course,…

Using a graduate credit and a noncredit home economics course, this study of the University of Wisconsin Educational Telephone Network (ETN) investigated whether telephone instruction can be effective in adult education, and how adults would react to this medium of remote, off campus extension teaching. The graduate course was divided between an…

During the 1974-75 academic year, Worcester Polytechnic Institute opened an off-campus, educational project center in Washington, D.C. An on-site director, supported by an on-campus administrator, as assisted by four other faculty members, staffed the center during its first year of operation. Sixty-six undergraduate students completed educational…

The second part of a report on a comprehensive review of the credit instructional programs offered by Pasadena City College (PCC), this volume contains a technical description of the data collection and assembly procedures used in the program review and provides guidelines for the implementation of the program review model. The first section…