Six counties (Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain) in southwestern North Carolina have formed a planning and development commission which is legally responsible for all project approval in the area. In the document, a brief history of each county is provided in terms of what has been done in relation to the natural and human…

This index contains information on 456 computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs and projects developed by 51 organizations. The information was obtained from correspondence, annual reports, technical reports, and questionnaires which were sent to the producers of the program. The material is organized to list: the name of each program or…

School administrators and developmental guidance is the topic of the first speech. Developmental guidance, concerned with personalizing the educational experience, should be available to each child to gain self-understanding. Major responsibilities of the elementary guidance department are pupil appraisal, consultation, and developmental…

This document provides a current assessment of the role and character of longitudinal studies. Eighteen articles define this type of study, discuss its applications to the educational process, advise when to use longitudinal inquiry, and describe barriers formed by lack of statistical techniques in manipulating the data. The traditional argument…

The document contains four papers on research and development in educational technology presented by the members of the HumRRO staff at a briefing sponsored by the office of the Deputy of Chief of Staff for Individual Training at Headquarters, U.S. Continental Army Command in February 1970. The presentations describe research under Work Unit…

The bulletin is one in the series "Rural Africana" published 3 times yearly by the African Studies Center, Michigan State University. "Rural Africana" is devoted to current research in the social sciences, exploring the problems of social and economic development in rural Africa south of the Sahara. The present issue is a…

The careers of 185 previously unemployed aerospace and defense industry professionals are documented, following completion in August 1971 of a 1-month orientation to urban affairs entitled Project ADAPT (Aerospace and Defense Adaptation to Public Technology). Funded by the Labor Department and by the Housing and Urban Development Project to…

The primary motive for developing career education is the large number of students graduating or leaving schools who are unable or ill-equipped to enter the labor force. This situation is compounded by a fragmented, disjointed, and uncoordinated educational system. The concept of career education is not a new or revolutionary idea; rather, it has…

The purpose of this booklet is to show the role and importance of work-oriented literacy for development, that it is a way of training to adapt techno-vocational and socioeconomic requirements of development. Work-oriented literacy is geared to the felt needs and interests of selected vocational groups--farmers, factory workers, small traders,…

This study represents one phase of a broader research project designed to develop and test the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI). The specific objective of the present investigation was to systematically derive a comprehensive set of work dimensions that could be used in describing and classifying jobs for educational purposes. The OAI was…

This study represents one phase of a broader research project designed to develop and test the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI). The study is basically a replication of an earlier study which derived a set of work dimensions for classifying jobs for educational purposes. Using a new sample of 400 jobs, the present study is designed to determine…

A library of audiovisual instructional materials and curriculum guides were developed to train members of volunteer fire departments in LaPorte County, Indiana. The report briefly summarizes the project and includes a guide describing the audiovisual and instructional materials developed. The guide, containing 10 units, presents brief descriptions…

Examines a creative drama project in which nine hundred junior high students participated in groups of fifty in a drama about regional history. (MH)

Family change classes are designed to help children recognize the inevitability and normality of family changes and the feelings which occur as a result of such things as death, marital dissolution, separation, or residential mobility. Readings, role play, puppetry, discussion and other media are used extensively. (Author)

Discusses the decisions colleges must make in planning programs for nontraditional or high risk students and categorizes these decisions under four areas: (1) organizational considerations; (2) program dimensions, i.e. content and instructional strategies; (3) decisions about students; and (4) program evaluation procedures. (JG)