In an era of educational retrenchment in which career-oriented students are seeking useful, practical instruction, the challenge facing writing departments and writing teachers is to develop a curriculum serving a variety of undergraduate majors without straining budgets and without expanding staffs. Toward that end, the "Concentration in Writing"…

LIGHTING IS A VERY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF CLOSED-CIRUIT TELEVISION OPERATION. BETTER TELEVISION LIGHTING IS OBTAINED THROUGH CAREFUL PLANNING AND PURCHASING. SEVERAL IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL APPLICATION OF LIGHTING IN A CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION STUDIO ARE PRESENTED. IN EARLY STAGES, LIGHTS WERE USED FOR PORTABLE ARRANGEMENTS.…

THE COMBINED APPLICATION OF SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IS DESCRIBED AS AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO ACHIEVE OPTIMUM RESULTS IN THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. PROJECTS OF THIS TYPE ARE GENERALLY FINITE, COMPLEX, HOMOGENOUS, AND NONREPETITIVE. SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF A PROJECT INCLUDES ITS DISASSEMBLY INTO…

The program was designed to provide training in adult career education to selected individuals employed in corrections and corrections-related agencies and to develop a generalized planning model with implementing delivery systems of adult career education for correctional settings. The report describes basic training provided in four regional…

Conclusions and recommendations regarding the development of an Area Master Plan to provide maximum coordination between vocational, technical, adult, and continuing education agencies within Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California, are presented. The Area Five Planning Committee, which developed the Master Plan, based its evaluation and…

The concepts and practices of local school evaluation, as implemented in the Cincinnati Public Schools, are described. The conceptual framework of local school evaluation, which is based upon the needs of local schools, and attempts to incorporate evaluation with instructional activities, is presented. The components of the framework are: (1)…

The report attempts to analyze the political feasibility of career education currently through analysis of existing legislation and consultation with experts and key policy officials. The most significant Federal legislation for career education has been Title X of the Education Amendments of 1972 providing State grants for the development of…

The Academic Development Plan II of the University of Hawaii is designed to guide the operations of the University through the academic and fiscal year of l974-l975. It commences with background information and a brief historical look at the university. In Part I the University at large is discussed. This includes the problems of (1) centralized…

This final report of the operation of the North Dakota Center for Research in Vocational and Technical Education covers the period from December 1, 1966 through August 31, 1969. Activities of the first 18 months (from June 30, 1965) are reported in "Establishing a Center for Research in Vocational and Technical Education" (ED 012 333, MP 000 116).…

There is currently a renewed emphasis on planning stemming largely from the accountability movement in education. The accountability factor suggests that current and future educational planning could perhaps differ from past planning. These differences could possibly manifest themselves in a wider inclusion of lay persons and groups in the…

A planning guide for local school districts to assist them in improving their educational planning, the document focuses on the implementation of career education planning in a local education agency (LEA), but includes the total educational program. The steps outlined can be used by LEA's who do not have a career education emphasis. The…

This second volume of a two-part study is intended to help educators construct viable plans for the use of cable television (CATV) in education. Following an introductory consideration of CATV as a means of distribution, the report lays out the steps for the planning, development, operation, and evaluation of a project, illustrating successful…

The second preliminary report on the development and planning for a community college to serve the Fairbanks area covers the following topics: (1) events since the first preliminary report, (2) meetings with community groups, (3) recommendations and concerns of university faculty, (4) the population to be served by the community college, (5) the…

PPBS is a system which integrates the functions of planning, programming, budgeting and evaluation. The PPB System is designed so that there is a logical sequence to these functions and their interrelationships are explicitly defined. The most outstanding feature of PPBS is the necessity of focusing very sharply on what should be accomplished by…

The Ohio Program Review for Improvement, Development, and Expansion (PRIDE) in Vocational Education is a comprehensive program review system designed to define, secure, and provide useful information relative to selected vocational education objectives. This document was designed to assist the local vocational education personnel in planning and…