Secondary vocational-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through…

This core curriculum is designed for use in helping employees participating in a workplace-specific basic skills program develop basic team-building skills while simultaneously developing basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills. Although many of the instructional materials and sample forms included are applicable to employees in most…

This packet is concerned with the problem of choosing and writing educational goals and objectives and the determination of goal achievement with emphasis on: (a) the determining valid goals and objectives; (b) stating goals and objectives in terms that are measurable; and (c) measuring the achievement of goals and objectives. Section one reviews…

The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between instructional competencies and other items with which they are often confused, and then to explore specific examples of the relations among these items. Two of the reasons for this confusion are associated with the numerous definitions of the terms competency and the…

One of five modules in the administrative series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are revised…