Written for Migrant Student Records Transfer System (MSRTS) specialists, this manual provides information to help them generate, translate, interpret, use, and update a migrant child's educational record. The manual serves as a reference to be used in conjunction with the National MSRTS User's Manual and as initial orientation and subsequent guide…

Written for migrant nurses, this manual is intended to simplify and speed up the process of entering pertinent medical information onto the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) data base. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the indepth technical information in the National MSRTS Health Users Manual and includes page references…

Information processing researchers have assumed that algebra symbol skills depend on mastery of the abstract rules presented in the curriculum (Matz, 1980; Sleeman, 1986). Thus, students' ubiquitous algebra errors have been taken as indicating the need to embed algebra in rich contextual settings (Kaput, 1995; National Council of Teachers of…

This curriculum course guide lists requirements for the various courses that could be offered in an office occupations program in the postsecondary vocational-technical schools of Louisiana. Descriptions are provided for these curricula: account clerk, administrative/office assistant, secretary/stenographer (including three specialized areas:…

To provide an effective and available source of data on placement and follow-up of vocational education in Louisiana, a comprehensive follow-up system was designed for collecting information on students in secondary or postsecondary vocational programs from the time they complete or leave with marketable skills until five years following their…