The booklet contains proceedings of a conference for minority project administrators in the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP), a federal program to develop exemplary services for young handicapped children. Part 1 includes topical presentations reflecting the expressed interests of participants related to model programs.…

A multimethod model of educating gifted and talented students was based on graduate students' study of 14 eminent self actualized individuals. Common environmental elements of these individuals were found in parent background, birth order, relationship with family, education, task commitment, personality traits, and interests. The model was…

Future population structures will place heavy emphasis on development of leisure time planning. Leisure time activities and recreation are viewed as an integration of work and leisure for the satisfaction of the individual's lifestyle preferences. An interdisciplinary approach to this issue is presented, with emphasis on heightening personal…

The Computerized Decision Training (CDT) system, which focuses on improving and sharpening higher order cognitive skills in judgmental decision making, incorporates an adaptive computer program which learns the student's value structure, and uses this structure to train the student in practical decision making. The application of decision models…

The two volume report presents the final report and appendixes of a project concerned with developing career opportunities for handicapped persons. Entitled "A Career Accessibility Model for Special Needs Individuals," the project's approach was based on the application of job redesign and job enrichment principles within ten national or…

Experiential education as a teaching strategy differs from traditional classroom learning largely because the sequence of events in the process is reversed. In experiential education the learner first carrys out an action, sees the results, and from this basis generates concepts and principles. By first understanding the basic components of the…

Over the past few years, several complicated innovations, such as mainstreaming and minimal competency testing, have confronted teachers in addition to their usual responsibilities. In order to facilitate the teachers' implementation of such changes, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) was developed, using the teacher and the innovation as…

The Studies of Implementation is a three-year, longitudinal investigation focusing on the process by which an innovation is implemented and becomes a pattern of individualized schooling. An examination is made of the behavior of 13 elementary schools during the entire change process, which includes the adoption, implementation, and adaptation of…

Concerns regarding the regulation of family day home care led to a National Conference on Family Day Homes, the proceedings of which appear in this document. Co-sponsored by Texas and the Association for Regulatory Administration, the conference was intended to enable the exchange of ideas and information, identify research issues, and develop…

Paraprofessionals have been employed in a variety of functions for many years. Recently in the helping services, career employment of paraprofessionals and the rapid unfreezing of the 1960's bias toward a psychodynamic, one-to-one approach offered only by highly trained professionals have allowed paraprofessional roles to expand beyond…

Over 40 papers presented at an Australian conference on curriculum evaluation are included in this publication. Among the topics are: evaluation models; the relationship of reliability to the amount of observation; Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation; designing policy-oriented research; methodology in evaluating teacher behavior;…

AN ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL FOR THE SCHOOL IS PROPOSED, PLACING TEACHERS AT THE CENTER OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AND PROVIDING THEM WITH A SUPPORTIVE STAFF TO HELP INDIVIDUALIZE EDUCATION. IN THIS MODEL, A DIRECT INSTRUCTION TEAM WORKS WITH A PROFESSIONAL STAFF, WHO ORGANIZE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PROVIDE CONSULTANT HELP, AT THE…

INCLUDED IN THIS MANUAL WRITTEN FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEACHERS ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF DEMONSTRATION MODELS, EXPERIMENTS PERTAINING TO SOME OF THE FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS, AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING SIMPLE WEATHER OBSERVATIONS. THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF TOPICS WERE EASE AND COST OF CONSTRUCTING APPARATUS AS WELL…

THE EFFICIENT USE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S LIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES INVOLVES ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS THAT SPREAD ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF CHOICE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO IDENTIFY BASIC CONCEPTS INVOLVING THE ALLOCATION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES. THE BUDGET IS EMPHASIZED AS A TOOL WITH WHICH THE DECISIONMAKER CAN FOCUS AND SHARPEN HIS GRASP OF…

The objective of the Instructional Support System for Occupational Education (ISSOE) Dissemination project was to identify alternative methods of, and develop prototype plans for, extended ISSOE dissemination and planning. Phase 1 activities included development of a conference series with individuals experienced in instructional systems,…