This article describes an ICT-based and capability-driven model for assessing ICT in education capabilities and maturity of schools. The proposed model, called ICTE-MM (ICT in School Education Maturity Model), has three elements supporting educational processes: information criteria, ICT resources, and leverage domains. Changing the traditional…

Offers recommendations about how to evaluate student activity programs. (JM)

The purpose of this assessment instrument is to provide a functional tool that allows for: (1) self-study and self-evaluation of the total secondary school physical education program; (2) identification of problem areas; and (3) eventual improvement of the secondary school physical education program. Criteria items are organized under four program…

The primary emphasis of this handbook is upon occupational program evaluation, particularly as it relates to modification and termination. It is the result of a series of nine workshops whose purpose was to review and improve Guidelines for Occupational Program Planning (ED 143 404) written in 1977. A basic flow chart is presented with specific…

The manual is intended to help South Carolina school systems administer programs for handicapped and disadvantaged persons enrolled in vocational education programs. The manual focuses on: legal mandates; how students are identified; how students are assessed; the assessment instruments utilized; services that can be provided; how student progress…

The modular curriculum for agricultural education was developed and refined by teachers and consultants to meet student needs for a more flexible type of curriculum in which the student's occupational goals would form the basis for program planning. The module--a unit of curriculum based on the development of entry level competencies--contains the…

Focusing primarily on program modification and termination, this document is one of two handbooks developed by a California consortium of vocational educators to provide guidelines for developing and evaluating occupational programs. (The accompanying handbook, CE 017 928, focuses on program initiation.) A flow chart illustrating the different…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the on-site evaluation phase of the three-phase system for statewide evaluation of occupational education programs in Illinois. The specific problem was to explore the nature of selected changes in the occupational education programs of comprehensive secondary schools over five years and the extent to…

The guide was designed to serve dual functions: (1) as the plan for the administration and operation of a work experience program for the San Mateo Union High School District for 1975-80, and (2) to assist the staff at all levels in the daily organization and management of work experience programs. The system defines the lines of accountability at…

This document describes the efforts of program administrators to implement an organic curriculum in the Duluth, Minnesota, secondary schools. Major activities included staff development activities and inservice training students in a core of job skills. Organic curriculum is a learner-rather than a teacher-centered course of study utilizing…

Intended for those responsible for supervised work experience in all levels in further and higher education, this book debates some issues surrounding placements and outlines a procedure for managing them. Chapter 1 is an introduction to the topic. Chapter 2 discusses the educational purpose of placements. Chapter 3 suggests that some difficulties…

This handbook assists vocational education personnel in planning, organizing, and implementing cooperative education activities. The handbook provides a basis for teachers, supervisors, and administrators in making decisions and standardizing cooperative education activities throughout Kentucky. The handbook's 11 sections are as follows: (1)…

The Small House program at Slauson Junior High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, during the 1971-72 school year was evaluated. Two purposes of the evaluation study were to assess developments in the Small House program and to develop a prototype or model for evaluating innovative educational programs that delineates the evaluation, design, and analytic…

One of five modules in the administrative series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are revised…

This guide presents criteria for local evaluation of cooperative education programs. The first section of the guide defines cooperative education and sketches the elements that determine a cooperative education program. The second part of the evaluation guide contains components to be evaluated in cooperative education programs. Each component is…