A follow-up study of agricultural education graduates from Texas A & M University was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the curriculum in agricultural education at the University in the preparation of graduates for careers in agriculture and to determine the factors which might influence the choice of and success in either teaching…

A training package on mainstreaming was field tested with 263 regular and special class teachers and paraprofessionals. The package included a set of structured roleplays and discussion sessions designed for use by untrained workshop managers in a 2- to 3-hour workshop. It was concluded that the training materials are capable of being utilized…

The Teaching Research Infant and Child Center classrooms service moderately to profoundly handicapped preschool children by providing comprehensive individualized curriculums emphasizing self help, motor development, language, and cognitive skills. Each model classroom contains 12 children with a teacher and an aide, and utilizes volunteers and…

This booklet contains case studies of inservice staff development programs that were implemented as organizational responses to school desegregation in six midwestern school districts. The districts range in student population from 6,000 to 44,000, and were initially desegregated between 1970 and 1978. A team of interviewers visited each of the…

This evaluation report describes Project P.R.O.B.E., a bilingual education program for four and five year old Spanish speaking children in two Bronx, New York schools. The educational objectives of the program, including the improvement of reading and other curriculum skills, are outlined. Also described are staffing patterns, orientation and…

This linker's guide introduces the systematic problem- solving approach used by the Florida Linkage System. An overview of the System's three SOLUTION ANALYSIS SERIES Guidebooks is given in order to clearly identify the different steps in the system's proposed training process. (LH)

This study describes the natural activities, behaviors and social interactions of 32 infants in their own homes. Participating families were from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Salem, Oregon; were involved in the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP); and had a child between the ages of 11 to 14 months when the study was conducted. The families…

A study of the effects of a resource room enrichment program was field tested on academically gifted fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students in 65 elementary schools. The Ss were pre- and posttested on the Cognitive Abilities Test. A norm referenced research design was used to control for normal development. Findings indicated that participation…

A supplement to the related document "Delinquency Prevention: Theories and Strategies," this paper analyzes the options for state agencies (particularly state planning agencies participating in the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration formula grant program) to promote and support program forms recommended in the companion document.…

PRECEDED BY SUMMARIES OF THE RATIONALE AND CURRENT STATUS OF ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION, 12 GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING EXISTING CURRICULUMS ARE PRESENTED AND DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOKLET. THE GIVEN GUIDELINES CONSTITUTE A CANON OF CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM AND ARE CONCERNED WITH (1) THE EXISTENCE OF CLEAR AND…

With a view to showing how Independent Television Authority and Independent Television have met the parliamentary injunction to educate, inform, and entertain, this document attempts to present the varying methods used, and the weaknesses and strengths as well as the originality and traditionalism of the programs offered to the adults of Britain.…

This document reviews and summarizes fifteen major studies of compensatory education, and in particular Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It provides students, researchers, evaluators, and policymakers with a usable guide to the evolution of approaches associated with this large scale educational program. These studies…

The curriculum evaluation method presented in this paper is focused on determining how an instructional program works in an attempt to explain its instructional accomplishments. The design of the evaluation separates the determination of the instructional program's potential for producing student proficiencies from the evaluation of implementation…

This paper reviews some major lessons learned by participants in the Follow Through programs about the process ofimplementing innovative educational programs and outlines how these lessons were recorded and formulated for use by others. Using a perspective and method derived from anthropology and oral history these program aspects are described:…

This annotated bibliography, prepared by the ERIC Counseling and Personnel Services Center, is intended to alert the user to a body of literature on a topic of current interest to counselors. It identifies research reports and programs that have been cited in the ERIC publications, "Research in Education" and "Current Index to…