A curriculum is a form of politics (Apple, 1993). The politics of a curriculum defines what is legitimate and valued and what is not. In Taiwan, the objectives of vocational high school (VHS) education are to prepare students to acquire relevant professional knowledge and practical skills and to integrate them into their future career development.…

The script for a slide show which describes the goal-setting process undertaken by the Elkhart (Indiana) Community Schools to determine educational priorities is presented along with reproductions of the slides used in the show. Topics covered in the script and the slide reproductions include: (1) background information on the Elkhart schools; (2)…

Includes a description of Project Synthesis with its three-fold purpose: to describe the desired state of science education, to delineate the actual state of science education, and to assess the differences between the actual and the desired states. (MA)

Details steps for implementing a site-based scheduling model for middle schools. Six steps are: forming the scheduling committee, conducting a needs assessment, setting and prioritizing goals, examining other working schedules, developing the master schedule, and adjusting the master schedule. (KB)

From 1960 onwards the U.S. Government set out to improve the schools in American Samoa. Discusses a series of studies of the islanders' educational needs focusing on ten critical unmet needs. (Editor/RK)

Given the difficulty of representing the interests of a diverse faculty such as Utah State University, this 5-year plan has sought relevant information from both faculty and administrators in an assessment of the needs of the university for this period. Some conclusions about needs have been drawn from existing data: enrollment can be expected to…

Although administrators have applied the term "needs assessment" to many things, including desires and solutions, the term is becoming progressively more precisely defined. Assessing needs simply means identifying where we are now and where we want to be by a specific time. A new imperative for needs assessment arises from public demand that…

The School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an overall design for districtwide program assessment and development. It is both a way of interrelating planning and evaluation of individual programs and a way of comparing the outcomes of all district programs with the district's community-defined educational goals. Component…

The School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an overall design for districtwide program assessment and development. It is both a way of interrelating planning and evaluation of individual programs and a way of comparing the outcomes of all district programs with the district's community-defined educational goals. This…

This report describes the planning processes used to develop a five-year teacher corps project for inservice teacher improvement. The planning model was designed to provide collaboration with all persons who would be involved in the project. The input from district, university, and community consultants was used as well as from teachers…

This comprehensive plan is presented within a context that includes the ccmpletion of a year-long awareness program on competency-based education (CBE), instructional goals that were revised and prioritized through a system-wide needs assessment, student population projections, and budgeting practices. The comprehensive plan is focused on the…

Designed to provide developing nations and government agencies with information on nonformal education, this study presents general guidelines on how to: (1) assess the needs within a given country for rural children and youth; (2) plan effective/economic programs to meet these needs; (3) develop means to evaluate and strengthen such programs; and…

The National Heart and Blood Vessel Research and Demonstration Center has developed a program called the Cardiovascular Curriculum Education Project, designed for secondary school students, which consists of self-instructional education units on cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors. Describes its three major components and method of…

One of the objectives of this study was to implement the school-community relations model of interaction to determine whether the specified patterns and processes were viable. Implementation began with a needs assessment, followed by an operational process involving four approaches: (1) a schoolwide focus on reporting pupil progress; (2) a…

The Goodman-Armstrong School District (Wisconsin) local plan for career education is presented. The following elements are included in the plan: career education position statement; definition of career education; history of career education in the Goodman-Armstrong district; lists of the members of the career education working and advisory…