Describes Spartanburg Technical College's six-step process for developing curricula that integrates job-specific content with work-related skills. Identifies skills employers want, ways of incorporating those skills, the curriculum design model, considerations for implementation, and benefits. (DMM)

This fifth quarterly report covers the period June 15, 1967 to December 15, 1967 of a project aimed at demonstrating a faster method of training higly qualified workers for the health field. During this period, nurse aides were trained in a pilot program based upon the educational objectives derived from entry level behavioral specifications…

Technical activity from April 1 through June 30, 1965 was concentrated in behavior analysis and guidance program development. The behavior analysis involved identifying 1,051 jobs as candidates for inclusion in the training program and grouping them into 30 sub-families on the basis of task similarities. Data necessary for decision to include the…

A project was designed to develop a vocational course to satisfy an industry request for trained manpower in petroleum production. During phase one the feasibility was studied, formal instruction determined, an instructor named, site located and secured, and students selected for the class. A three-year trade and industrial level course for…

THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO ESTABLISH A CENTER FOR DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS NEEDED BY TRAINEES FOR EMPLOYMENT IN HOME ECONOMICS RELATED OCCUPATIONS. THE PROJECT STAFF (1) DEVELOPED A PLAN FOR COLLECTING EXISTING MATERIALS, (2) PREPARED A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THREE OCCUPATIONAL AREAS, (3) DEVELOPED A FILING SYSTEM, (4) VISITED…

The Software Development Program described in this report was developed at Collin County Community College as a pilot associate degree program for the State of Texas. Drawing from an employer needs assessment and a DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process, the two-year associate in applied science (AAS) program was developed to train scientific…

The Teacher Aide Program--one aspect of a 1967-68 Title III ESEA project to implement a pilot social studies program in various Madison, Wisconsin, public schools--utilized 1 full-time or 2 part-time noncertified aides working with each of 4 project teaching teams (horizontal teams at grades 6 and 10, and vertical teams at grades 4, 5, 6, and 8,…

This paper proposes an Evaluator Development Program to meet the need for improvement and development in educational evaluation. The objective is to enhance effective evaluation processes in elementary, secondary, and higher education through the institutionalization of evaluator roles within differential settings. The program involves the…

Project Proud Option of Palmer, Massachusetts, had the following objectives: (1) develop and implement a system for assessing the functioning levels of handicapped students in institutional schools as these functional levels relate to already existing job task outlines and performance objectives; (2) develop new job opportunities within the…

Materials relating to the curriculum guide development phase of this project are presented in this volume of the report. Included are a definition of agribusiness competencies; a listing of occupational advisory committee members; rating forms showing the level of education appropriate for job preparation in the occupations covered by the guides;…

The Meridian Partnership is a cooperative program established in 1992 by Meridian Community College (MCC), in Mississippi, and Peavey Electronics Corporation to provide expanded workplace literacy instruction to Peavey employees and to perform job analyses to develop customized mathematics and reading courseware. Hardware, software, classroom…