This guide to the city resources of Charlotte, North Carolina, is also useful as a model guide for other communities. Listed for each of the 145 subjects from "accounting" to "zoning" are community business men and women, organizations, institutions, and individual citizens willing to provide real-life illustrations of subjects often only read…

Reported in summary form is an accountability model developed in Duval County, Florida (funded through Title VI) for planning, developing, and operating an educational program for trainable mentally handicapped children. Background information consists in such aspects of accountability as systematic planning, assessing, and refining educational…

Three types of instruction were used in the Ohio Module Project: traditional classes, programmed learning centers, and home instruction. Four major objectives of the project are: (1) to determine the kind of training program necessary to prepare paraprofessionals to operate an instructional program utilizing programmed materials, (2) to compare…

Validation in curriculum development is the "check-and-balance" dimension of any instructional system, in the broadest sense almost synonymous with evaluation and accountability. This paper relates validation to individual, formative, and summative evaluation. Validation measures to be applied to instructional systems are outlined according to a…

The OCCUPAC Project consists of the development of multi-media career education materials, with an emphasis on simulated real-life experiences in the classroom. Existing occupational clustering systems have little meaning for the kindergarten through sixth grade career education curriculum, because they are based on adult logic. A special…

As part of the Phase II report of the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project, this document focuses on the structuring of a model for occupational curriculum development and evaluation. Thus, a questionnaire was developed to identify: (1) the tasks and various activities within the institutions, (2) some of the key curriculum changes that have…

Three of the papers in this collection present the separate models--school based, employer based, and home-community based. Titles of the five papers are: (1) "Facts and Fantasies of Career Education" by Gorden I. Swanson, (2) "Strategies for Implementing Career Education: A School Based Model" by Aaron J. Miller, (3)…

This study was part of the ERDC's overall program of evaluation of various aspects of modular scheduling in its member schools. A readiness model to implement modular scheduling was developed, based on a review of the literature on modular scheduling and on practices and theoretical aspects of change and its implications. The model was tested by…

Viewing curriculum as an academic plan permits development of parallel course and program planning models that are dynamic, conceptually related to student learning, and familiar to institutional planners. Opportunities gained by using the academic plan umbrella for curriculum are described. (Author/MLW)

Offers perspectives on the need for secondary science curriculum reform. Discusses curriculum issues in terms of four stages which include: the nature of science; principles of curriculum design; pupils needs and entitlements; and practical proposals for exploring curriculum models. (ML)

Describes curriculum planning processes for environmental education programs employed by secondary school teachers in Australia. Explains the phases involved with a school based curriculum project and provides a case study report to illustrate the approach. Offers suggestions for initiating and sustaining curriculum planning in environmental…

Argues that instructional decisions may be affected by the conflict produced when teachers' curricular perceptions do not match those that underlie a recommended teaching strategy and presents an ideological framework for comparing secondary reading goals and their related curricula. (FL)

Outlines the development of a model high school program in Virginia that is designed to be a model-in-miniature of what the state's schools can do. Its goal is to develop practical solutions to the problems of high schools. (MD)

A course in the early detection and outpatient management of alcoholism for medical residents is discussed. Unlike other courses on alcoholism that have emphasized changes in physicians' attitudes, this course was designed to promote changes in residents' practice behavior and to foster the development of necessary clinical skills. (MLW)

Emphasis is placed on the managerial roles at the organizational level and in particular the role of a curriculum coordinator in planning, organizing and controlling the resources needed to develop, install, continuously evaluate and modify curriculum materials used by teachers of vocational and career education in local educational agencies.…