Specific objectives of this phase of a nationwide study of vocational education were: (1) to determine the unit cost for vocational-technical education programs in a unified school district and in junior college district, (2) to determine the problems of data collection and analysis under present practices and legal requirements, and (3) to…

Lack of effectiveness in current instructional output is due to the nature of the theories formulated to improve the structuring of the content of instruction. A rationale is presented for a theoretical position. Based upon this rationale a paradigm is outlined which provides the basis for a comprehensive category system for instructional design…

This publication is the fourth of four volumes of "Tomorrow's Manpower Needs," which are devoted to the subject of national, state, and area projections of manpower requirements. This volume includes a discussion of the assumptions on which the national projections of industry and occupational requirements are based, and the methodology…

Citations and abstracts for 78 articles and book chapters on urban community development, in both developed and developing nations, are included in this booklet. Emphases include encouraging the participation of the poor in community development programs; political aspects of urban community development; community structure; theories of planned…

Educational management programs have planned outcomes that can be achieved through alternative routes. Methods-means selection is a systematic approach to choosing the most favorable route. "Methods" refer to the specific strategies and "means" refer to the actual resources and personnel used to carry out the chosen method. This systems analysis…

This paper reports briefly on some recent efforts to find a process for delineating people's needs as a basis for establishing criteria in designing and evaluating educational services. The paper is designed to help educational decisionmakers learn how to get useful information about needs. The authors have tentatively identified a class of…

The forms and concepts of cinema and television are examined in order to shed light upon the techniques of communicating ideas and achieving psychological effects on film. Part I of the book focuses upon basic cinematic and television concepts, including matters such as the language and grammar of cinematography, the syntax of editing, the…

This report outlines the purpose, implementation, and results of a project designed to define the role of industrial arts in career education. Throughout the course of the project the major objectives were to develop a working definition of career education, identify the role of industrial arts in career education, foster implementation of…

The first section of this paper which is the second on the same topic recapitulates the assessment of behavioral objectives originally stated in Part I, essentially to serve as a contrast to the "Dewey model" which states that goals should be determined "by" the students rather than "for" them, and hence that ends…

From 1968 to 1969 the EPRC focused on: staff development, definition of a specific research program, and development of methods to deal with educational policy issues in the context of longrange futures. The research program of the center is organized around educational futures and policy planning. Specific methods include Delphi techniques, goal…

Public relations and fund-raising are those functions of management which engender public understanding and support for the agency's aims and services. These two functions are closely interrelated in that the agency's public relations effectiveness influences its ability to raise funds and, conversely, its fund-raising operations have a direct…

This preliminary model deals with manpower requirements to 1980 and jobs for University of Georgia graduates. Emphasis is placed on suggested methodology for dealing with a projected output of graduates in terms of speciality fields and the correlation of this projected output with projected manpower requirements in the related speciality fields.…

This final report of a research project in vocational education, conducted under Part C of Public Law 90-576, will be useful to teachers, administrators, and teacher educators charged with curriculum or course development in vocational agriculture. The objective of this research project was to place curriculum development activities in vocational…

This publication contains 200 bibliographic annotated entries representative of the available literature most relevant to the future of American education. The content scope covers futures methodology, general societal trends and futures descriptions, general educational trends and futures descriptions, educational policy proposals, and…

A four-session training workshop was conducted by Columbia College for paraprofessionals who are or plan to be engaged in rape-crisis intervention counseling. Medical aspects and treatment of rape victims were discussed along with police procedures and reports required for subsequent legal action. Workshop participants were instructed in selected…