Community collaboration for improving career guidance is an attempt to obtain cooperation from local agencies, organizations, and volunteering individuals to provide assistance to citizens whose career needs are not being addressed. This monograph is designed to motivate and provide initial orientation for community leaders who want to develop…

Evaluation results of 1979-80 compensatory education programs for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children in 75 Baltimore, Maryland public and private schools are presented in this report. The program provided early learning experiences in reading, mathematics, and language for educationally disadvantaged 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds to enhance…

The Exploring Careers in the Community for Gifted and Talented (ECC/GT) program is conducted in Jefferson County, Colorado junior high schools to provide an 18-week career exploration component for gifted/talented students. The program provides gifted/talented students 3 hours a day to participate in interviewing community members about their…

Based on data from site visits to local educational agencies and area vocational technical schools, this report details an evaluation of Georgia's vocational programs. The report is presented in two sections with identical formats. Section 1 contains an analysis of data from secondary programs, while section 2 focuses on data from postsecondary…

A survey was taken of industrial arts students, parents, teachers, and administrators in Virginia to determine how they perceived secondary industrial arts programs and objectives. Researchers administered a questionnaire to a sample of 32 middle schools and 25 senior high schools over a spectrum of urban, suburban, and rural areas. A total of 883…

This report documents the 1981-82 evaluation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, Part B, Institutional Facilities Program carried out through the Division of Special Education of the New York City public schools. Using a diagnostic-prescriptive methodology, the program provided after-school and pull-out individualized remedial…

Participants in CHOICES, a computerized career information program, were 40 female and 9 male freshmen psychology students at the University of Missouri at Columbia. After 4 weeks of program work, a questionnaire to assess a broad range of career-related concerns was administered to the participants and to a quasi-control group of 19 female and 7…

A preliminary, descriptive overview of the students and their progress in the first year of a new French immersion program looks at the 1982-83 grade 8 cohort of 40 students, most of whom had come from the standard core French program in grades 6 and 7, and compares their progress in other subjects with two grade 8 classes in another school. Data…

This is the second report evaluating Project Education and Community Development, a project which was conducted in largely Islamic Jewish, disadvantaged neighborhoods in Ofakim, Israel. Part I describes the project's background, aims and objectives, intervention strategies, and implementation phases. Part II consists of an evaluation of the…

First-year evaluation of the Career Education Plus (CE+) project at Minot High School (North Dakota) was conducted. CE+ is an alternative educational program that provides career education learning opportunities for students in grades 9 and 10. Generalized project objectives were as follows: to provide for competencies in basic skills; to enhance…

Directed to three audiences--rehabilitation counselors, administrators in vocational rehabilitation, and decision makers in policy organizations--this document focuses on how to measure what happens to a disabled person who receives vocational rehabilitation services. Chapters 1 and 2 give background information on rehabilitation outcome…

In order to provide educational opportunities for all students while preventing the "open door" from becoming a "revolving door", Southeastern Community College (North Carolina) established the Resources for Student Learning (RSL) program. During 1976, a comprehensive evaluation of the success and/or reasons for failure of current and former RSL…

This second volume of a three-volume report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on Public Service Employment (PSE) contains the interim report of the Brookings Institution to the Commission based on their onsite monitoring of the program. The report is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the report, and…

In order to determine the effectiveness of improved information dissemination and assessment techniques in reducing highway accidents, a set of seven targeted driver license manuals and tests were developed for the following groups of drivers: new drivers, youthful drivers, renewal applicants, older drivers, traffic violators, accident repeaters,…

A project was designed to produce a broad description of current mining training programs and to evaluate their effectiveness with respect to reducing mine injuries. The research strategy was built on the ranking of mines according to the effectiveness of their training with an effective training effort being defined as that training which is…