The design and development of a needs assessment procedure to assist local vocational education administrators in planning a mainstreaming approach for handicapped students in vocational education was the purpose of this study. The methodology involved a review of the literature on the general mainstreaming topic, program planning, needs…

Intended to assist local vocational education administrators in needs assessment and planning procedures for mainstreaming handicapped students, this manual presents a five-step process: (1) needs assessment and barrier identification (includes instruction in the nominal group technique process); (2), goal, objective, and strategy development (a…

Part of a series devoted to identifying and evaluating strategies which vocational education administrators and instructors can use at the secondary student, teacher, or administrator level to eliminate sex stereotyping and sex bias in vocational education programs, this manual provides information to aid administrators in developing and…

A project was initiated to describe vocational education in correctional institutions in Health, Education, and Welfare Region IV, the Southeastern United States. Project objectives were to (1) produce a data and knowledge base concerning correctional institutions' vocational education; (2) describe and quantify Region IV correctional vocational…

To identify the issues, characteristics, barriers, and needs related to vocational education provisions in Southeastern correctional institutions, a project was developed. Survey data was collected through a 100% sample of adult and juvenile correctional facilities in seven states. Study procedures utilized a combination of state level interviews,…