This paper summarizes the purposes, history, and funding history of the curriculum development program which is Part I of the Vocational Education Amendments, describes the major categories of the program effort, and offers recommendations for the future of the program. Problems in career development and management at the national level which have…

Author described competency based education-oriented academic programs and the planning for their implementation. His general purpose was to defend the use of CBE through an effective evaluation effort that would show the program was succeeding. (RK)

Two groups of students at Michigan State University participated in an exercise intended to teach them the process of peer review. Neither group completed the exercise. The authors discuss the concerns of the students and make suggestions for implementing a program of peer review in undergraduate medical school curricula. (Editor/JT)

Reports on an undergraduate earth science course for non-science majors structured around five-week minicourses. Evaluates student and teacher response to the program. (CP)

Presents some points of view on arts in general education in reaction to January's special issue of MEJ. (Editor/RK)

Examines one aspect of curriculum design and development, the course "concentration", in a college of arts and sciences, and demonstrates that new forms can be created from existing resources. (Author/RK)

The Science Teacher Education Project (STEP) was the first major curriculum development project to be concerned with teacher education in Britain. Its intent was to help the young teacher understand his role in the classroom and to develop his teaching skills. Discloses the reactions of teachers at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for…

A field test of the materials unit from the LAMP Project for low motivated secondary students is discussed. Facilities, students, teaching methodology, and the evaluation of the situation are described.

Describes the goals which the faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, set for its new program (particularly for engineering education) and the new teaching and implementation strategies developed to attain those goals, and then examines the tentative results. (Author/RK)

The course structure of a program offering sixth-form students an opportunity to hear from guest speakers in science-related industries and to study the industry's contributions to science is provided. Student evaluation of the program is also included. (CP)

The statewide (Oregon) survey of special education administrators, high school special education teachers, and parents of mildly disabled high school students investigated four areas of special education services: focus/content, discrepancies between availability and utilization, barriers to mainstreaming, and conditions required for improvement.…

The purpose and potential of inservice teacher education programs in economics are discussed. Specifically examined are (1) the outcomes expected from economic inservice, (2) whether economic inservice pays off, and (3) the various ways economic workshops are organized and for what type of teacher each is intended. (RM)

The effects of the Individualized Curriculum Sequencing (ICS) model on acquisition and generalization of skills by two severely handicapped preschoolers were evaluated. Results preliminarily supported the efficacy of the ICS model. Criterion performance and generalization across novel classroom activities and materials were evident for four of…

The study analyzed the effects of three inservice strategies on teacher implementation of new curriculum materials. The analysis revealed that inservice instruction improves the implementation of new materials in local vocational education programs. (Author)

Presents a mode of formal analysis that identifies different substantive theories about history teaching. The mode rejects as incomplete or incoherent pseudotheories that fail to indicate which needs they are supposed to meet, which knowledge they are supposed to provide, or which authority they are supposed to recognize as legitimate. (RM)