This report is one of a series prepared by Master Plan Subcommittees that will be used in developing a Master Plan for higher education in Utah. Chapter One discusses (1) the manner in which roles were defined; (2) the identification of present roles performed; (3) existing programs; (4) the assignment of roles to various institutions; (5) the…

The Michigan Adoption Program (MAP) helps match school district needs such as technical assistance and in-service training with well-developed successful programs in other districts. (CMV)

The goals of the project were to strengthen the curriculum management capabilities of the Oklahoma Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center (CIMC); to expand its efforts toward curriculum management in career education through coordination of efforts in development, dissemination, and diffusion; and to maximize resources for curriculum…

THE INITIAL OPERATIONS OF THE NEW JERSEY OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT, DURING AN 18-MONTH PERIOD, WERE DESCRIBED. THE UNIT USED A VARIETY OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES TO SERVE SUCH STATE AND LOCAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION NEEDS AS TEACHER EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION, PROGRAM EVALUATION, PILOT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS,…

PROPOSALS FOR CONSIDERATION BY EACH OF THE 50 STATES ARE PRESENTED IN THE REPORT BY THE TASK FORCE ON VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION. A BRIEF STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE BELIEFS AND OBSERVATIONS PRECEDES THE PROPOSALS THAT (1) A HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL CONSISTING OF HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT AND LAY CITIZENS BE ESTABLISHED IN EACH STATE…

Federal legislation mandates that applicants for research and development contracts in vocational education demonstrate a reasonable probability that the contract will result in improved teaching techniques or curriculum materials. To facilitate the impact of research activities, one must develop procedures to predict and assess research impact.…

This document begins with a report describing a Northampton Community College project to develop a manual to help adult literacy providers understand how they fit into welfare reform. The accompanying manual consists of four sections corresponding to the project's four objectives. Section 1, intended to enable adult literacy providers to…

The project report that introduces this document describes how the Partnership for Academic and Career Education (PACE) project developed tech prep/associate degree program agreements between Tri-County Technical College and seven school districts in Anderson, Oconee, and Pikens Counties, South Carolina. The partnership resulted in restructuring…

An October 1987 national survey provided follow-up information to the April and November 1986 surveys to address Section 123 of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). (The section provides 80 percent of the 8 percent set-aside for services to eligible participants and 20 percent for administrative coordination and technical assistance.) The…

A national survey addressed Section 123 of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). (The section provides 80 percent of the 8 percent set-aside for services to eligible participants and 20 percent for administrative coordination and technical assistance.) In fall 1985, the survey was mailed to JTPA state education agency (SEA) personnel in each…

Between October and December 1985, a national survey gathered information from 37 states on the 3 percent and 8 percent set-aside programs. Approximately three-fourths of the responding states administered the 3 percent program for older individuals through the same state employment and training unit responsible for the basic Title II-A program;…

This second volume in a four-volume study of industry- and education-driven skill standards in the United States and other countries contains information on how the individual states have been involved in the development of skills standards related efforts. Section A presents information regarding how nine states--Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,…

In Wisconsin, different agencies administer vocational education on the secondary and postsecondary levels. Students and educators at both levels have reported substantial duplication of course content, texts, reference materials, equipment, and instructional processes. Therefore, a project was designed to expand and improve articulation (that is,…

A research project conducted from July 1974 through June 1976 to develop more comprehensive State-local planning for curriculum development, work-experience programs, and programs for the disadvantaged and handicapped was designed to coordinate total planning activities from the Kansas State Department of Education to the local classroom level. A…

The proceedings of the conference on outstanding research and curriculum activities conducted by the various State research coordinating units opens with William W. Stevenson's brief examination of alternative research efforts. The remainder of the first half of the document consists of abstracts of the 15 presentations at the conference sessions…