The Cornell Institute for Occupational Education has developed a system to aid community colleges in planning new vocational education programs. It includes two phases of decision-making and close, logical scrutiny of resources, students, local situations, and employment opportunities. (Author/NHM)

The shape of all future and social structures may be determined largely by the emergence of a new kind of individual. (Editor)

In this paper conceptual and methodological issues in the analysis of developmental sequences are discussed. Conceptually, the reconstruction of the logic of acquisition calls for the use of task or structure analysis. Methodologically, it calls for an individual-oriented approach, the use of statement calculus for formulation of the postulated…

Staff development programs aiming to effect meaningful change are often short-lived and fail to promote teacher growth due to (1) lack of teacher control over program content; (2) the difficulty of influencing long-term changes in teachers' classroom behavior; and (3) the problem of documenting behavior change. This paper discusses a…

A four-phased project developed an impact assessment system for vocational education research and development personnel to indicate whether the resources spent for funded projects improved the programs identified by the research and development system. During Phase I, procedures were identified and developed for complying with the impact…

This report presents an evaluation of an individualized professional development program, the Professional Support Program, created at the Reading Area Community College (RACC) in Pennsylvania to provide a climate within which academic faculty and professional staff may enrich their personal and professional capacities to teach students…

The Project ACCESS (Adapting Curriculum Content for Exceptional Secondary Students) resource guide is designed to help regular classroom teachers provide successful experiences to mildly handicapped mainstreamed students through the adaptation of the curriculum. The concerns-based approach, which was used successfully by Project ACCESS, focuses on…

Intended for parents of gifted and talented children as well as for teachers and administrators, the handbook provides an overview of gifted education while describing one district's program model. The district's philosophy, goals and objectives, and definition of giftedness are set forth, followed by a list of learning and behavioral…

Specialization, rather than comprehensiveness, may be the best means for the urban community college to fulfill the needs of students and society. (Editor)

This study formulated a multivariate model of early infant competence from variables representing a transactional perspective of developing competence in early infancy. The measures used in the competence model were: birth weight; habituation index; personality ratings of the infants' social orientation and task orientation; ratings of maternal…

The relationship of educational development to economic systems and the inappropriateness of western educational models for use in developing nations is examined. (DE)

Article based on an unpublished doctoral dissertation completed at the University of California at Berkeley, 1966.

Instructional development models have been primarily concerned with audience analysis, content, media selection and sequencing, rather than the design of the program. They fail to analyze either the interaction between the content, learner, objectives, and medium, or how best to design the content for presentation through the medium. This paper…

Experiments dealing with quantification processes in adults were run as part of an attempt to formulate an information processing model of cognitive development. The existence of three quantification operators--subitizing, counting and estimation--was first postulated. Experiments were then designed to refine the parameters which define the…

The importance of state planning for comprehensive personnel development prompted this topic to be used as the theme for the 1971 State Directors' Leadership Development Seminar. Following the Seminar, a committee drew together the concepts presented plus additional information for inclusion in this publication. More efficient and effective…