The 1981 summer Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) Program, designed to provide self-directed learning packages whereby high school migrant students throughout California can receive credits toward graduation requirements, provided instructional materials to 2,306 students. Student transcripts were sent to 159 California high schools.…

The Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) Program, designed to provide correspondence course work whereby high school migrant students throughout California may earn credits leading toward completion of their graduation requirements, was evaluated using the following items selected by project staff request, funding guidelines, and consultant…

Part I of this document describes a model for occupational program planning in two-year colleges. The planning process begins with an estimation decision, i.e., whether the program idea is worth investigating. This decision can be divided into seven sub-questions or systems: (1) Identity--what should be the general content of the program? (2)…

Fiscal reductions as well as growing conservatism may have a profound impact on many university programs, including Chicano Studies programs, which are expanding into research, publications, and other areas. To frame the issues of greatest concern to Chicano Studies programs, a small research effort at the University of New Mexico involved the…

A FIVE-MEMBER CONSULTANT TEAM, DURING THE SUMMER OF 1966, DEVELOPED A PROGRAM FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH WHICH WOULD RELATE WORK AND STUDY AND PROVIDE ON-THE-JOB TRAINING WITH THE ULTIMATE GOALS OF PLACING PARTICIPANTS IN SUITABLE VOCATIONS AND ASSISTING THEIR RETURN TO FORMAL EDUCATION LEADING TO A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES PROGRAM…

A longitudinal study examined adult basic education (ABE) in Virginia between 1970 and 1985. (The first study was conducted in 1970, the second in 1978, and the third in 1985.) Data for the 1985 study were collected from survey instruments mailed to all state department ABE personnel, local ABE supervisors, learning center coordinators, and ABE…

Of those 16-year-olds who stay on in full-time education, almost half choose to do so in further (adult) education. Although the percentage of students enrolled in general education programs has fallen off slightly since 1980, this group still forms the largest single group of 16-to-19-year-old students in the United Kingdom. Of all of the areas…