Activities conducted during the 19-month period ending July 1, 1968 are reported. Coordinating activities involved liaison work between state agencies, and participation in a planning group concerning the 1970 census. Stimulation activities resulted in seven research proposals. Three were approved and funded, two were approved, and two were…

Evaluation must be an integral part of the educational process concerned with the continuing development of better procedures and techniques for measuring outcomes of the educational program. The best evaluation is carried on by the local school district as self-evaluation. The manual provides forms for self-evaluation of vocational-technical…

The proposal for the sixth year of the Massachusetts Right to Read effort deals primarily with ten objectives derived from the national commitment to full literacy. (1) "Focus on Excellence," a booklet outlining 5 major goals and 26 conditions for an exemplary reading program, is used for the criteria of excellence. (2) The Right to Read…

To better understand the emerging directions and priorities for inservice training across the country, the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development section of the Annual Program Plans (called for in P.L. 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act) were reviewed for 49 states and the District of Columbia. The review was structured to…

The purpose of the publication is to provide a listing of the projects supported during FY 1974 in each State through grants and contracts funded by the States under section 142(d) of Part D of the Vocational Education Amendments Act of 1968. The listing, which is arranged alphabetically by State, shows the title of each project, the name of the…

Participation of postsecondary institutions in student consumerism occurs largely because of the broader problem of external pressures on all postsecondary institutions requiring institutional responses. A major source of pressure comes from government regulations for federal student-based aid programs, especially loan programs. These regulations…

Reported is the development of the Connecticut state plan to assess the needs of the developmentally disabled and establish service priorities. An overview of the planning system includes information on planning processes and the model components including needs assessment, priority setting, program development and selection, program approval, and…

This document is designed to review the general provisions of various sources of student financial aid (federal, state, and private) and, to explain the operating procedures of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. This document is essential, since the Basic Grant Program is based on the concept of entitlement. It is necessary that all…

The reporting booklet is required by the Census Data System (CDS) of the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE); it contains the reporting forms which collect enrollment data by department at the end of the school year. CDS, one of two major subsystems of the integrated management information system, was developed to…

This booklet contains the graphs of mean cumulative and achievement scores, as well as a grade level analysis, for all grade schools in Charles County, Maryland during the 1973-1974 academic year. (Author/BJG)

Described is the system of evaluation used to monitor and assess the effectiveness of community service/continuing education programs in Florida funded through Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965. It is necessary to first describe the State Agency's understanding of program evaluation and indicate the influences that contribute to that…

State education agencies are organizing and developing programs that increasingly recognize the difference between the following types of state education productivity systems: (1) distributing money for productivity in education to be defined and implemented at the local level within "state minimum standards" regulated by the state…

Reported in part 2 of the final report issued by the Information and Research Utilization Center (IRUC) in Physical Education and Recreation for the Handicapped are results of a l972-l975 survey to identify resource programs and personnel concerned with physical education, recreation, and/or related areas for individuals with various handicapping…

In a magazine format, the services and programs of the State Library of Ohio from July 1974 to June 1975 are reported. New programs such as the opening of the State Library Tower Center to meet changing government information needs and the Ohio-Morehead program to reach educationally and economically disadvantaged; new uses of technology within…

This interim report of the Temporary New York State Commission to Evaluate the Drug Laws seeks to provide the executive department and the legislature with comprehensive information on the social, fiscal and health problems associated with narcotics addition, and drug abuse. This report is the result of the following: (1) several meetings with…