Designed to enhance student knowledge of and skills in child guidance in group care settings, this manual provides 50 laboratory experiences for five units. Units cover foundations and assumptions (2 laboratory experiences), developmental factors (8), indirect guidance (14), direct guidance (14), and strategies (12). Each unit includes performance…

This document is a guide for use by the practical researcher concerned with conducting studies of transfer of learning from pretraining of pilots in ground-based environments to performance in aircraft. While the material addresses principally transfer of learning of pilots, many of the issues should be applicable to other contexts, to include…

Described is the Biomedical Instrument Package (BIP) and its use. The BIP was developed for use in understanding colorimetry, sound, electricity, and bioelectric phenomena. It can also be used in a wide range of measurements such as current, voltage, resistance, temperature, and pH. Though it was developed primarily for use in biomedical science…

Designed to accompany the student text on respiration, this manual presents instructions on the use of laboratory equipment and presents various experiments dealing with the concepts presented in the text. Thirty-nine laboratory activities are described. Laboratory activities are divided into several parts, each part covering a specific experiment…

Designed to accompany the student text on the nervous system, this manual presents laboratory activities dealing with concepts presented in the text. Thirty-seven activities are described. Four supplementary activities dealing with concepts in electricity are also included. Laboratory activities are divided into several parts, each part covering a…

This final report of a project to develop an Interchange Model Office Program providing training and work laboratory experiences also contains two products of the project--an employee's handbook and a manager's guide. The narrative describes the program involving two separate classes, each representing a business that conducts transactions with…

This 9-12 hour organizational simulation enables participants to assume responsibility for operating a fictional technical college serving 10,000 students by taking on the roles of 10 college officials (president, vice presidents, deans, and campus administrators). Based on interviews with 117 vocational education administrators and instructors…

This report describes the third year of a project to develop a high school program which combines experience and theory to prepare students to meet their responsibilities as parents. The 24-page narrative discusses setting and participants, needs, program objectives and scope, methods (courses and other program components), findings (including…