Future funding alternatives for the University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign are presented. Four variations of budget projection models were analyzed in relation to two basic sets of assumptions. Both assumptions assumed an annual rate of increase for salaries and wages and expense and equipment. The two versions vary the treatment of equipment…

A framework for statewide career education planning is presented. The basic steps and ingredients for preplanning, planning and demonstration, and utilization and implementation are suggested. The basic career education plan should provide the following kinds of information: curriculum philosophies; Innovational program thrusts; input and…

The model as currently developed consists of three major aspects: contexting, operation, and memory. The contexting aspects of the model are concerned with the higher level cognitive behavior associated with selection of appropriate behavior, maintenance of goals-directedness, and evaluation of completed behaviors. The operational aspects of the…

Feasibility of training undergraduate students as teachers of disturbed children is examined, followed by brief presentation of a potential training model for undergraduate students. It is noted that there is little, if any, research indicating the superiority of graduate training over undergraduate training. The need for program changes is…

This segment of the Early Childhood Library Specialist Program is known as the parent/child project and it functions as a model to demonstrate how library oriented institutions can work with parents and their children, and serves as an agent for the dissemination of information to parents and young children. The parent/child project attempts to…

Positive and negative aspects of evaluating change programs are discussed, and a process evaluation model is proposed. The four specific areas upon which the paper focuses are as follows: (1) definitions of evaluation and evaluation research and a review of some approaches to evaluation; (2) the functional consequences of evaluation; (3) arguments…

A model is presented which incorporates certain features lacking in many schemes: it proceeds in a systematic manner; it addresses the interaction of cognitive processes and instructional task demands; it provides for continuous evaluation and modification; and it deals with measurable behaviors. It is divided into three components adapted from…

A study of current views and models which provide a working framework for media program evaluation. (Author)

The Florida Bureau of Employment Service within the Florida Department of Commerce has developed and implemented a competency-based counselor training model which includes supervisory competencies. This article is limited to a discussion of the basic components of the supervisory portion of the model and the presentation of an actual case. (Author)

The author presents a framework of "design principles" for trainers in designing management learning events, based on the humanistic school of thought and the personal growth of the individual, with the model being applicable to group training. (MF)

Described is Project APSE (Action Planning in Special Education), an alternative approach to special education teacher training in which graduate students plan a diagnostic and remedial program for children referred with possible learning disabilities within the school setting. (CL)

A training model developed at the Southwest Area Learning Resources Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, addresses problems relating to retention of training and offers guidelines to counter these problems. (RAO)

Programming exists to supplement, expand and complement the overall learning experience of higher education. This model is one of many possible structures which help to add form and direction to an activity, and help the planning body to achieve their intended goals. (Author)

Asserting that traditional evaluation methods which employ only the outcome model do not yield enough information re: early childhood education programs and school programs in general, this article discusses methods of broadening the evaluative model to include an analysis of the on-going processes within early childhood programs. (JC)