The article proposes a conceptual model for analyzing major delivery systems of instructional content used in Dean's Grants (a program to foster reform relayed to mainstreaming). Curriculum and faculty development issues are considered and weighted. Implications are suggested for the incorporation of content on other sociopolitical issues in…

The author criticizes inadequate implementation of gifted programing concepts that have resulted in two extremes: busy-work and student-directed programs ignoring teacher choice and prescribed content. He advocates a middle ground in which independent student investigation is balanced with prescribed gifted content. (CL)

The study tested a model of the relationship between educational mainstreaming and the achievement of 225 hearing-impaired students. Evaluation using path analysis indicated that the model adequately represents the relationships in the data among student background, achievement, placement, and later employment. (Author/CL)

A review of models of group and organization life cycle development is provided and the applicability of those models for institutions of higher education are discussed. An understanding of the problems and characteristics present in different life cycle stages can help institutions manage transitions more effectively. (Author/MLW)

Describes the development and testing of an environmental education curriculum model. The model, successfully used with secondary students (ages 14-16), is structured around a set of five key questions which are amplified to fit the topic and circumstances in which they are applied. (Author/JN)

Operational definitions from the literature of cognition, information processing, intelligence, problem solving, and learning are offered in an attempt to develop a coherent rationale for intervention with adult aphasics. J. Guilford's structure of the intellect model is applied and its advantages in terms of diagnostic testing are explained. (CL)

The National Writing Project at Work (NWP) monograph series documents how the National Writing Project model is implemented and developed at local sites across the country. These monographs describe NWP work, which is often shared informally or in workshops. Richard Koch and Laura Roop present a model of standards-based professional development…

Recent research suggests that the examination of students' work may lead to changes in teaching practice that are more effective in terms of students' mathematical learning. However, the link between the examination of students' work and the teachers' actions in the classroom is largely unexamined, particularly at the secondary level. In this…

This article describes the theoretical basis for and implementation of an individualized science curriculum at the elementary level. The program has the following objectives related to scientific curriculum: scientific literacy, affective and inquiry goals, and student self-direction and coevaluation. (HMD)

Both systematic long-range and annual planning are necessary functions of vocational educator programs. This article describes a model for a cyclical method of organizing for planning which allows the planner to identify and isolate to process components as well as to see their interrelationships. (KP)

The development of the school-based career education model by the Center for Vocational and Technical Education, Ohio State University, is described. (KP)

Seven value-type catergories which can be used in guiding a programing situation analysis are social-psychological, economic, physiological and health, socio-political, education, environment and natural resources, and ecological relationships. These categories are related to seven basic questions in a matrix model to determine program needs. (MS)

Provides three models as approaches to organizing the middle school in a variety of exciting ways: (1) an oscillating system, where students in communities move between basic studies and related arts and physical education, (2) an immersion system, where students in communities spend full time moving between interdisciplinary areas, and (3) a…

Author adapts the S-shaped curve of the product life cycle to that of the higher education curriculum. (CB)