The overall aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between the roles of assessment in pedagogy, the interactions between curriculum assessment and pedagogy, and the study of pupils' progression in learning. It is argued that well-grounded evidence of pupils' progressions in learning is crucial to the work of teachers, so that a method…

This guide to implementation is intended to support the Japanese Language and Culture 10-3Y, 20-3Y, 30-3Y Program of Studies. It was developed primarily for teachers, yet it includes information that may be useful for administrators and other stakeholders in their efforts to plan for and implement the new Japanese program of studies. Familiarity…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce and describe the features of a new e-learning quality framework developed for a large multi-campus university. The framework is explicitly designed to improve the quality of e-learning sites and the quality of online student learning, by developing the skills of the academics who design the sites.…

Research concerning accountability of distributive education and marketing educators was performed. It resulted in the development of curriculum guides for secondary, postsecondary, adult education, and CETA instructors, and in the creation of a curriculum planning guide for program development in marketing and distribution which includes…

Summarized is the first year of an intervention program for visually handicapped preschool children in Louisiana in which a curriculum guide was developed, implemented and evaluated with 12 children. It is explained that, in developing the curriculum guide, emphasis was placed on items that would best prepare Ss for mainstreaming in public school…

This report summarizes Head Start experience with the health education curriculum guide "Healthy, That's Me" in the first four months of 1972. Information was collected from regional office staff and from Head Start directors, nurses, teachers, teacher aides, and teacher trainers. Teacher and staff reaction to the guide, the training…

A study was conducted to validate the Oklahoma Curriculum & Instructional Materials Center's (CIMC) Distributive Education II curriculum manual. Participating teachers included sixteen teachers who attended a workshop for training in the use of the curriculum. Arrangements were made to obtain pretest and posttest results from their students on…

The 1981 Nutrition and Education Training Program described in this report is a continuation of activities begun in 1979 in the Baltimore, Maryland public schools. In 1981, the project integrated the objectives and learning activities developed during 1979 and 1980 into elementary and secondary education health, home economics, and science…

A project was conducted to develop a curriculum for training interpreters to use American Sign Language (ASL) to serve the deaf. The three-phase project involved (1) a task analysis to catalog the skills needed by interpreters and location of existing materials to determine areas where material needed to be developed; (2) development of a model…

A project entitled the Health Occupations Education Curriculum Project was undertaken to coordinate the 23 secondary cooperative health occupations education (HOE) programs in Arkansas and to develop a well-planned curriculum incorporating the multi-media approach. Included among the other objectives of the project were the following: development…

A project was undertaken at Kirkwood Community College to develop a full-time and part-time competency based program to educate water and wastewater treatment plant operators. First, a survey was conducted to identify the job tasks performed by the operators, their frequency, importance, and necessity. A questionnaire listing 651 tasks divided…

This document is the result of a national Mainstream English Language Training workgroup. Guidelines and suggestions are presented, in five chapters, for English Language Training (ELT) programs. Chapter one deals with the scope and design of particular ELT programs, taking into account the clients to be served, the needs of the service locale,…

This curriculum is the product of a project between the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the National Juvenile Detention Association to develop and implement a 40-hour, core training curriculum for line staff in education programs in juvenile confinement and custody facilities. The curriculum is primarily intended…

The project was designed to provide vocational teacher educators in Colorado with an alternative delivery system for inservice vocational teacher education which would overcome barriers of distance (and difficult winter travel), expense, and low student density. A task force composed of staff members of the State Board for Community Colleges and…

This is the ninth in a series of volumes consisting of a series of publications from the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA). These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges and universities. This volume contains five issues in the CSLEA Research Report…