The final report of a project to implement a career education guidance and placement program in the school of North Dakota covers the period of time from February 1972 to November 1973. The goals and objectives of the project include improving the guidance and counseling services to all North Dakota high school students; establishing placement…

This master plan has been designed to involve and guide the citizenry and public officials of Alabama in environmental planning. Environmental awareness is one of the goals of the master plan. The publication is divided into two sections. Part one presents the Alabama environmental education philosophy, major environmental goals, and…

Providing a summary record of the development and evaluation of an incomplete product, this status report discusses a training program to aid school staff in producing implementation plans for programs. Consisting of printed materials, guidelines for considering the aspects of program design with implications for program implementation are…

The purpose of this study was to determine the current status of mathematics laboratories in secondary schools and to formulate guidelines for their further development. Based on questionnaires returned by 137 teachers and 51 state supervisors, the findings were organized into eight areas: teacher preparation, profile of the laboratory situation,…

The report describes the process and content of a cooperative regional approach aimed at introducing environmental education into the Adult Basic Education (ABE) curriculum. Tracing the purposes, planning, development, and design of the conference, the document offers need statements developed to serve as a general guide from which to plan…

Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS) are increasingly mentioned as effective means for improving the management of educational resources in institutions of higher education. PPBS has several advantages over conventional accounting systems, which still would be needed for day to day operations. First, it relates cost to output;…

A model system, composed of principles, procedures, and instruments which were field tested in cooperating states (Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey), was developed for use by state vocational agencies in evaluating program effectiveness. System elements include a set of program objectives and goal statements, evaluation instruments which provide…

The National Conference on Research was one of nine held to discuss implementation of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. The purpose of this conference was to determine the increasing role and priorities of research in program development and to gather information for a research handbook. Major presentations were: (1) "Past,…

The first lecture of this series focuses on the role of today's professor, caught in the middle of two campus revolutions, one of which he is the beneficiary and the other, the target. The second lecture considers the importance of understanding the future in preparing youth for it, and the extent to which the future is knowable. Current…

This paper describes systems analysis in general terms, suggests some applications for education, and discusses the limitations of its use. Such problems as the political conditions, the lack of clear-cut goals, and the failure to plan alternative methods for achieving goals are seen as major limitations. To overcome these conditions and to permit…

This report is one of a series of disciplinary planning assessments for graduate studies in Ontario, Canada, concerning physical education, kinesiology, and related areas. Recommendations suggest: (1) There should be a limited number of discipline oriented Ph.D. programs focused on the generation of knowledge appropriate to sociology of sport,…

The paper traces the progress of the Career Education Project, funded for a 12-month period in the spring of 1973, and designed to enable the chief State school officers and their respective State education agencies to have ready access to information about career education. It was intended that the project would review and make recommendations…

Prepared as a part of the Career Education Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the paper examines and discusses broad goals and purposes of career education and reviews current related literature. Attention is given to the "who" and "what" of curriculum and instruction in terms of the coalition of…

The manual for business and office education in Washington is intended to assist all in-school personnel involved in cooperative occupational education (COE), and provides step-by-step guidelines for planning programs appropriate to each school's situation. COE combines classroom learning with on-the-job training to help each student prepare for…

Planning methodology should concentrate first on outcomes before emphasizing inputs and processes. In developing a plan for planning for a State community college system, such questions as these must be answered: why plan? who plans? what is to be included in the planning? what is the time frame for planning? Five general processes, each a…