APA Books® announces the "APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology"--the first offering in an new reference series covering core and emerging subdisciplines, the "APA Handbooks in Psychology." I/O Psychology is both a science/practice and an applied/basic research discipline. Appropriately, the "APA…

The Duke University School Research Partnership (SRP) Office was developed with support from the Office of the Provost and the Center for Child and Family Policy. Begun in 2006 as the Duke Office for Research in Schools (DORIS), the SRP Office is an integral part of the work of the Center for Child and Family Policy. The SRP Office facilitates…

The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory has developed principles for culturally responsive education, along with a series of tools to help educators respond to the needs of students from a variety of cultural backgrounds. This selective listing of promising programs and practices has been developed to provide examples of professional…

This resource guide contains a selection of examples and exhibits concerning different aspects of planning for inservice teacher education. The exhibits were taken from four pilot studies developed by the Teacher Corps. The major activities described are group problem solving, establishment of guidelines for development of an inservice program,…

Discusses areas of concern for faculty development in the sciences, including: (1) knowledge of computers, (2) subject matter knowledge; (3) correlation of the delivery of faculty development programs with individual needs, (4) responsibility for science faculty development in terms of available supports. (CS)

The Career Skills Enhancement Program (CSEP) was a National Workplace Literacy Program offered to Santa Clara County (California) Office of Education (COE) employees. A job skills study involved personal interviews, job shadowing, and examination of job descriptions and materials used by employees. Based on the study and initial needs assessment,…

This guide is designed to provide additional resources for technology educators who are attempting to shift their programs from industrial arts to technology education. An introduction describes the original demonstration site project, a consortium of Northeastern U.S. schools, the primary goal of which was the advancement of technological…

Prepared under contract with the International Council on Archives, this study will assist archivists in the development of an essential component of the basic archival infrastructure, a document reprographic service. Written with the problems of developing countries in mind, it will provide archivists, especially those concerned with planning,…

Eight sections of information concerning vocational education for handicapped students are provided in this guide designed for administrators of vocational education programs. Section I presents an overview of three federal laws affecting vocational education. The identification of handicapped students by local school districts is discussed in…

Abstracts of documents relating to the planning, management, and delivery of human services are provided in this journal. The journal is divided into four parts: abstracts, arranged in alphabetical order by title; an alphabetical list of authors; an alphabetical list of documents; and a subject index. Each document citation includes ordering…

This guide for school administrators interested in technology integration in the curriculum was developed from discussions at the Technology Integration Seminar held in March, 1991. The guide is divided into five chapters covering various administrative responsibilities and action steps. The first chapter presents an overview and identifies…

Designed to help occupational analysts, employment and training operators, guidance counselors, and vocational educators to better assess the source, content, and level of training necessary to achieve the desired skill requirements for most occupations, this report contains an analysis of training patters for clusters of occupations, a case…

Suggestions of roles and responsibilities are presented in this booklet designed for counselors in the implementation of career education. The first section deals with the role of the counselor and is presented in the form of a group discussion. (Participants in the discussion are counselors from elementary schools, middle schools, and high…

Prepared for use by teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, and career education personnel, this source book is designed to stimulate ideas for program planning, to help them become acquainted with the kinds of activities other schools have found to be successful, to provide personnel from other school districts to contact who have worked…

Reviews resources for and examples of effective diversity programming and suggests multicultural competencies for program planners and their students. Argues that practitioners must consider multicultural competencies for themselves and their students as well as the issue of free speech. (Contains 20 references and 2 tables.) (Author/GCP)