This guide, designed to assist pupil personnel specialists in developing placement programs, presents a comprehensive model covering the idealistic and realistic aspects of a placement program. Forms, procedures, and suggestions are included which emphasize an adaptable, open-ended approach to placement. The section on theoretical aspects provides…

This guide is intended to help administrators at schools having vocational education programs assess their occupational safety and health needs and establish a program to ensure a safer and more healthful work environment. It consists of three sections: (1) administrative guidelines, (2) technical-regulatory guidelines, and (3) a self-evaluation…

A time sequence of recruitment activities was developed using high school data to represent the total, potential, and actual student markets for Pennsylvania State University. High schools with similar characteristics were grouped according to potential recruitment yields. Under the assumption that college decision-making behavior approximated the…

In 1976 the Schools Commission (Australia) commenced a program of evaluation of its specific-purpose programs in order to obtain objective assessments of the impact of these programs and to determine ways in which they might be improved. One of the programs chosen for evaluation was the Development Program. This report discusses the design and…

This report presents required state and federal information and administrative and procedural information related to Kansas school food service programs. These programs include the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child Care Food Program, the Special Milk Program, and the Nutrition Education Program, and training…

Part 1 of a three-part volume for research and development (R & D) systems researchers, this report attempts to provide a basic understanding of the process of contextual analysis for research, development, and innovation. The term "research development and innovation" (RD & I) is used to describe the total process of innovation…

THE BASIC CONCLUSIONS OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES ARE PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT. INFORMATION UPON WHICH THESE CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BASED CAME FROM FORMAL TESTIMONY, INFORMAL DISCUSSION, REGIONAL HEARINGS, AND SPECIALLY…

AN ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF THE GOALS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EXTENSION CREDIT COURSES OFFERED BY MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY IN NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN DURING THE FALL OF 1959. ALSO CONSIDERED WERE DATA ON STUDENT PROBLEMS AND ON CONTACTS AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE UNIVERSITY. GROUP ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRES WERE USED TO COLLECT…

This document contains a description of the rationale for staff development programs in North Carolina community colleges and technical institutes, existing means for program delivery, the role of the Department's Office of Staff Development, and the results of a state-wide study conducted to assess the status of local institutional efforts.…

A handbook titled "The Educator's Handbook for Secondary Career Guidance Programs", and designed to aid the educator-counselor in formulating and implementing a workable secondary school career guidance program, was field tested in four secondary school settings in order to assess the effectiveness of the model. The handbook contained…

Four groups of people were requested to review the Rand Corporation's design for a longitudinal study of school desegregation. These groups can be labeled as Desegregation and Minority Student Education Experts, Distinguished Social Scientists, Federal Officals Responsible for Desegregation Research, and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)…

Four groups of people were requested to review the Rand Corporation's design for a longitudinal study of school desegregation. When the study design documents were sent to the reviewers, an evaluation questionnaire was attached. The reviewers were asked to add any needed clarifying comments in the spaces provided after each question, and to write…

Intended to supplement previously reprted conference proceedings on the preparation of special educators, the paper presents an overview of the structure of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) and certification, reviews research on selecting relevant program options, and identifies future research needs. Briefly covered are the following…

Grand View College, a small two-year Lutheran liberal arts college in Des Moines, Iowa, has begun to work toward implementing a baccalaureate degree program in nursing and to consider offering baccalaureate degrees in other fields. To determine the feasibility of offering such programs, the college developed a long-range plan for college…

This report includes highlights of three regional ECS Early Childhood Project conferences which dealt with needs assessment and planning, child abuse, and day care services. Participants were individuals from state government concerned with planning and delivery services to young children and their families. Needs assessment and planning was…