Project EPIC (Educational Preparation for Involvement in Careers) was conducted to study the best methods and techniques of infusing career education into the curriculum in five schools with high proportion of low-income children in the Jefferson County School System (Kentucky). The project had five basic goals: (1) provide low income children…

DURING THE PAST FEW DECADES, A NUMBER OF UNIONS HAVE HELPED MEMBERS TO RETRAIN TO COPE WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE OR TO UPGRADE TRADE OR CRAFT SKILLS, AND SOME UNIONS HAVE PARTICIPATED WITH EMPLOYERS IN JOINT APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS AND SIMILAR EFFORTS. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROVISIONS FOR RETRAINING HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO KEEP AS MANY WORKERS AS…

This is an evaluation of a Title VII Bilingual/Bicultural Education Program conducted in a New York City high school in 1979-1980. The population of the school's attendance area is discussed along with student characteristics. The program's organizational structure and its instructional component are described and the funding sources for the…

An experience-based career education (EBCE) program in the Anoka-Hennepin Independent School District 11 in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, was designed to aid students in making career decisions by the use of academic and out-of-school learning experiences. The program involved a cross-section of high school juniors from three district high schools.…

Evaluation studies conducted in 1978 at three sites yielded encouraging results regarding the ability of the Basic Skills Learning System (BSLS) to achieve the goals of adult basic education and demonstrated that effective curriculum models utilizing well-designed instructional paradigms can offer high quality instruction in the basic skills when…

A search of the literature was made on the effectiveness of recruitment and selection procedures for identifying and retaining administrators and school staff who are effective in managing student conflict and alienation. A classification scheme devised to fit approaches to school discipline within a theoretical framework includes (1) the…

A comprehensive report of the last six weeks of a three-month field trial of DISCOVER, conducted in one junior high and one senior high school in Baltimore, Maryland, and interpretation of the collected data are provided in this report. (DISCOVER, the product of four years of development, 1972-76, is a computer-based guidance system which includes…

Based on the premise that thousands of disabled do not participate in vocational education mainly because of nonacceptance into programs due to a lack of readiness, a study was conducted focusing on three severely disabled groups: (1) those accepted by the Department of Rehabilitation for programs, (2) those not accepted but given "pre-vocational"…

A fourteen-month project was undertaken to update, expand, publicize, and evaluate EUREKA, a career information system used for vocational counseling in California. As a result of this project, the following information was added to EUREKA's data base: twenty-one new schools; sixty-two agencies offering over 1,000 courses; a VISIT file for Contra…

In this part of the Kansas City Study of Adult Life, educational implications of adult activities and goals were explored, with emphasis on effective living in middle life. Performance of adult developmental tasks and motivation toward effort in these areas were investigated. Criteria were offered for assessing high, medium, and low performance in…

IN A STUDY TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF A 1965 SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE, 83 PARTICIPATING CHILDREN WERE TESTED ON THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (PPVT) AND THE DRAW-A-PERSON (DAP), AND THEIR SCORES WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF A MATCHED GROUP OF CONTROL NON-HEAD START CHILDREN. ALL WERE TESTED IN SEPTEMBER 1965 (AT THE BEGINNING OF THE…

An experimental program was undertaken to find a means of facilitating the teaching of art to large numbers of students in a Humanities course at the University of Miami. Original paintings were available for study in the University art gallery, but there was insufficient room for large classes in the gallery and a specialist teacher was not…

This volume is the technical appendixes to the evaluation study (ED 142 795) of the Career Intern Program (CIP), a program effort to help urban youth get a basic education and further training or a paying job. These appendixes include descriptions of the evaluation design, study sample, statistical treatment of the data, and measures used,…

To determine if participation in vocational student organizations actually results in an acquisition of leadership characteristics, career growth, community involvement, and social development on the part of its members, descriptive and opinion questionnaires were given to four populations: all State directors of vocational education in the United…

Based upon the data collected in this research into the effectiveness of the consortium approach to preservice teacher education, such an approach does not seem to offer any special advantages in the acquisition of teaching skills, but did seem to have some positive attitudinal effects and certain benefits for each consortium participant not to be…