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Contracting Corp. of America, Denver, CO. – 1977
This volume presents a number of articles on different aspects of the Head Start Strategy for Spanish-Speaking Children written by participants in that effort. The first section describes Bilingual-Bicultural Curriculum Development and Evaluation projects and includes descriptions of four curriculum development projects and an evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Child Care, Competency Based Teacher Education
Reynolds, Grace D., Comp. – 1979
The proceedings of an institute on PAM--Project Aquatics Mainstreaming, designed to develop a continuum of services in aquatics for handicapped persons--is presented. Addresses touch on the following topics: the project's history, analysis of mainstreaming, mainstreaming issues (including legal and legislative ones); program and individual…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Conference Reports, Disabilities, Facility Guidelines
Cook, Joyce; Williams, Jeanne – 1975
The objectives of the conference, determined by a Conference Steering Committee together with staff of the U.S. Office of Education, were: (1) to identify and promote effective methods and techniques for moving career education from a project status into an ongoing educational program status; (2) to determine and discuss major issues in the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Conference Reports, Educational Administration, Educational Legislation
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. – 1978
Included in this publication are presentations and summaries given at a forum designed to provide information about the status of the competency-based curriculum and its implications for competency-based education. On the topic "Instructional Support for CBC: Where the System Is Now," three presenters, James T. Guines, Wilbur A. Millard,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Conference Reports, Counseling, Curriculum Development

Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Coll. of Allied Health Professions. – 1975
Participants were acquainted with the conceptual and operational details of interdisciplinary education in allied health as carried out in the Kentucky January Prototype. The program was developed in terms of the Health Team Model for the past four years, and has created a source of information on many facets of developing and programming…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Bibliographies, Conference Reports, Health Personnel
Calbert, Roosevelt; And Others – 1975
This publication includes the proceedings of the December 1974 long-range academic planning workshop for the 1974-75 Cooperative Academic Planning (CAP) consortium, the first in a series on curriculum change for this new consortium. This workshop represents a new thrust for the CAP program in terms of establishing coordinating and comprehensive…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Redman, David N., Ed. – 1973
This document presents the proceedings and addresses of the 25th annual conference of the Association of Graduate Schools in the Association of American Universities. Presentations cover: doctorates in the seventies, postdoctorates and employment, graduate student support, and methodology toward assessing quality in Ph.D. programs. Reports of the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Quality, Financial Support
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne. – 1977
Over 40 papers presented at an Australian conference on curriculum evaluation are included in this publication. Among the topics are: evaluation models; the relationship of reliability to the amount of observation; Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation; designing policy-oriented research; methodology in evaluating teacher behavior;…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Policy

Atlanta Univ., GA. – 1976
As part of its first-year activities, the Atlanta University Department of Chemistry, which started as Doctor of Arts degree program in September 1975, sponsored a conference on April 23-24, 1976 to which were invited 20 two- and four-year college faculty and administrators. The main objectives were to discuss the need and credibility of the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development, Degree Requirements
Bronx Community Coll., NY. – 1977
The objective of the final conference was to provide an opportunity for the 10 Associate institutions of National Project II to share what they had learned, both individually and as a consortium. Each institution had been chosen to participate in the project on the basis of an exemplary program for underprepared college students. This document…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid

Conner, James E. – 1975
Content summaries are presented for two national conferences (one in Washington, D.C., the other in San Francisco) designed to bring together prime sponsors, vocational educators, and representatives from industry to take a reading of how CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) programs were progressing and to explore ways of utilizing…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Federal Programs, Industry, Labor Force Development
Orloff, Jeffrey H., Ed. – 1978
The report contains the proceedings of the Third Annual Northern Virginia Conference on Gifted/Talented Education. Titles and authors of papers presented include "Realizing Your Potential" (H. Lyon), "Developing the Gifts of All Children" (W. Barbe), "What is Leadership Training for the Gifted?" (D. Sisk), "Theoretic Foundations of Differential…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conference Reports, Counseling, Gifted
Educational Testing Service, Washington, DC. Education Policy Research Inst. – 1977
In February, 1976, the Education Policy Research Institute sponsored this conference on the use of tests in educational policy formation; these six papers were presented at that conference. In the first paper, Jenne K. Britell discusses four points that have historically characterized debates about testing; psychometric and technical issues;…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Testing
Mallinoff, Estelle, Ed. – 1971
The theme of the 1971 meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States is graduate education in the 1970s: a response to change. The discussions offered include nontraditional graduate programs by Elizabeth R. Foster and Edwin L. Lively; on developing a national philosophy for graduate education by Robert F. Kruh, Donald W. Taylor,…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Finance, Educational Programs, Evaluation