Part of a 4-volume set constituting a model to assist all school districts in Region 17 (Texas) in infusing comprehensive career oriented education into their existing instructional programs by 1980, this teacher guide contains materials for the third part of a 3-phase program designed to move the participant through a series of informational…

The primary purpose of the project was to develop cost-effectiveness materials to be used in conducting locally directed secondary school vocational education program investigations. Based on a literature review, eight key elements in the cost-effectiveness system were identified and a conceptual model and data instruments for cost-effectiveness…

"Algorithmic counseling" is an attempt to apply recent instructional regulation techniques to graduate counselor training and research. This paper seeks to explain what algorithms are, why they could be useful, and how they can be constructed. A central motivation for studying algorithms is their utility in showing students how to accomplish a…

Summarizing work which is part of an Army research program on Methodological Issues in the Construction of Criterion Referenced Tests, the focus of this paper is on a Bayesian model, which gives the probability of correctly classifying an examiner as a master or as a nonmaster while taking into consideration the test length and the mastery cut-off…

A joint project between Indiana and Purdue Universities was conducted to develop a model to evaluate vocational teacher education programs. The model was to be functional on a statewide basis and generalizable to all vocational teacher education programs in Indiana. The project staff developed a conceptual basis for the model and cooperated…

This report describes a cross cultural training program for pupil personnel service workers and other certificated school personnel. The program is divided into three parts: lecture, demonstration and trainee participation, and field site experiences. Recipient evaluations are required of the trainee efforts in the field sites and a workable…

This report is one of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), a project categorized into three sections: (1) Teaching Components--Cooperative Vocational Education, Industrial Arts, Trade and Industrial, Vocational Business Education, (2) Leadership…

Six basic assumptions are necessary for the counselor to function effectively in a school setting. (1) There exists a relationship between the individual's performance (physical or psychological) and his ability (used or not used). (2) The performance of the client is modifiable. (3) The force or forces affecting the developmental pattern can be…

This study was undertaken to compare the variables related to the successful institutionalization of changes across divergent organizations, and to design, through cross-validation, an interorganization model of change. Descriptive survey questionnaires and structured interviews were the instruments used. The respondent sample consisted of 1,500…

The Simulation Option Model (SOM) was developed as part of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation work on educational planning. Its two main purposes are to be an analytical tool for the project on Educational Growth and Educational Opportunity and to be a direct contribution to member countries' own work in these areas. The model…

Faculty provinciality (defined as the extent to which an institution's faculty members are graduates of that or nearby institutions) is an area of higher education research that remains relatively unexplored but is becoming increasingly significant as institutions of higher learning strive for maintenance of academic standards through personnel…

In an attempt to identify generalizable features of professional development programs for faculty, the California State University and Colleges system set out in 1974 to develop and test on a local basis, several models of professional development. A systemwide Center for Professional Development was established to facilitate and monitor the…

This handbook provides information to assist elementary and secondary schools in becoming more international in their approach to and in the content of their curriculum. It is directed to teachers and students as well as administrators. An initial section summarizes 118 responses to a questionnaire mailed to members of the National Association of…

The purposes of this study were to design a model for promoting and guiding the development of a systematic approach to coordinating program planning in vocational education between the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) and its feeder high schools; to identify problem areas in articulation and achieve a consensus on priority…

The exercises in this manual are designed to help elementary and secondary educators in the development of human relations skills, and with slight modification the exercises may be appropriate for college and university educators as well. The procedures for human relations skill development presented in the manual were developed over several years…