Activities of the second year of a career education project in Weatherford, Texas from July 1974 to June 1975 are documented. A counseling component was established at all levels as well as the development of self-awareness and positive attitudes toward work at the K-7 level, career investigation experiences for grade 8, and exploratory…

Covering the period of June 1974 to May 1975, the report describes and evaluates the second year activities of a comprehensive K-14 career education project in a three-county rural area of Missouri. As a result of the third party evaluation the following conclusions were reached. The project has had a desired positive impact on teachers in the 10…

Conducted from May 1971 to July 1974 at the Lakeshore Technical Institute in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the comprehensive career education program was established initially to serve 15 school districts but was redirected into a "model school" approach serving four schools. Business, industry, and labor became involved and loaned support to…

This booklet is intended to provide elementary school principals with some understanding of the concepts of adult learning and development and an awareness of some of the processes and techniques for conducting a staff development program. It is not, however, intended to serve as a complete training program in itself. Among the topics discussed in…

This is the final evaluation report for the Hackensack Career Development Program whose goals for the 1970-1973 funding period were: to develop a model in which career development concepts may be incorporated into regular classroom activities, to implement the model, and to evaluate and update the career development concept on a continual basis.…

This document describes an exemplary project from October 1, 1970 through September 30, 1971 to expand vocational education to the youth and adults in rural Minnesota through the operation of vocational centers designed to serve all secondary schools in Roseau County and in South Central Minnesota. This was viewed as one project although conducted…

The World of Manufacturing is an Industrial Arts Curriculum Project designed to acquaint junior high school students with all the major phases of the manufacturing industry. This publication reports the evaluation of a World of Manufacturing program implemented into the Pontiac School District during the 1970-1971 school year. During the summer of…

Career education projects in the Texas school districts of Fort Worth, Harlandale, and Houston, conducted from January 4, 1972 through July 3, 1973 are summarized in this document. Project similarities and differences in the three districts are presented at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, with career guidance emphasized in all…

Based on stated 3-year (1973-1976) project goals, career education activities were provided to the identified adult population (unemployed, underemployed, mid-career, high school dropouts, parents, and women) in rural areas of the North Central Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education District of Wisconsin. Project activities included classes,…

This book investigates the educative role of theater in processes of social change and development, and considers how to evaluate the use of theater as a small-scale medium in realizing development projects based on a participatory or interventionist model. The book is in three major parts. Following an introduction and an introductory chapter,…

The evaluation of the Developmental Kindergarten (DK) Program at the Harrison School District #2, Colorado Springs, Colorado, involved pre- and post-testing of student academic gains and interviewing of principals and teachers. The program aimed to provide developmentally appropriate activities for students believed to be "at risk" of…

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…

In order to determine the validity of using the Cooperative English Test (CET) for placement in remedial writing, Queensborough Community College initiated a study using the Holistic Reading Method to rate essays written by a random sample of 204 incoming freshman in fall 1973. Three regular English and three remedial English instructors were…

Covering the period of June 1974 to June 1975, the report and final evaluation document the second year operation of a career education counseling project in the Corpus Christi Schools. The components of the project emphasized awareness and career orientation for K-6, established career resource areas in junior high school libraries, and developed…

The report evaluates a K-14 career education exemplary project in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, for the year 1974-75. It was concluded that the evaluation findings were not valid measures for the effectiveness of the program because the time constraints did not allow for a pretest/posttest design. Student performance was measured against norms…