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District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. – 1978
Included in this publication are presentations and summaries given at a forum designed to provide information about the status of the competency-based curriculum and its implications for competency-based education. On the topic "Instructional Support for CBC: Where the System Is Now," three presenters, James T. Guines, Wilbur A. Millard,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Conference Reports, Counseling, Curriculum Development
Griffith, William S.; Cervero, Ronald M. – Adult Education, 1977
Examines the claims of the developers of the Adult Performance Level (APL) program to improve the teaching and testing of adults enrolled in federally supported adult basic education programs, identifies APL's theoretical problems, scrutinizes the technical aspects of its development, and evaluates the role of the U.S. Office of Education in these…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, Performance Tests
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1966
This document contains the abridged proceedings of a workshop on the evaluation of ESEA Title I programs, which are designed to improve education for disadvantaged children. Thirty-nine participants from 24 States attended the workshop. The workshop's 14 papers and four discussion excerpts are organized under four main headings: (1) Title I…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experiments, Educational Objectives
Hennings, Patricia – 1978
This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on government housing programs is the second in a set of three modules on housing in economically depressed areas. (This set is part of a larger set of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see CE 019 901-967.)…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Competency Based Teacher Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Download full textGriffith, William S.; Cervero, Ronald M. – 1976
Noting that the Federal adult education program, Adult Performance Level Program (APL), only affects 1% of its target population, the author examines the program and concludes with seven major observations: (1) Increased attention should be given to the admonition, "Users of the instrument should have a general knowledge of the principles of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Huerta, John L., Jr.; And Others – 1980
This document contains four research papers of the Vocational Academy (VA) Project which researched alternative forms of vocational education to impact on CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) eligible participants. (The innovative approach developed incorporated a career ladder concept in skills training.) Preceding them are a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Ladders, Competency Based Education
