Following a discussion of the advantages of having everyone in an English Department--teaching assistants, junior faculty, and senior staff--teach composition courses, specific qualities desired in a composition instructor are suggested in this speech. These instructors should include: (1) those willing to insist that students emerge from…

Those either contemplating or committed to heading an independent school are provided some guidance in this handbook. For both, the hazards, demands, and responsibilities of the job are presented in detail. Advice is offered about areas to explore when considering an appointment; and planning strategy and tactics after accepting the position that…

Research which resulted in the development of the United States Employment Service Specific Aptitude Test Battery for use in selecting inexperienced or untrained individuals for training as Maintenance Repairer is described. Occupational norms were established in terms of minimum qualifying scores for each significant aptitude measure, which when…

A two-year project to systematize the occupational teacher approval record-keeping and planning procedures for the Massachusetts Office of Professional Development (OPD) for the Division of Occupational Education is described. A project overview discusses the problems of the system and objectives arrived at to solve them, including the improvement…

A study to identify the basic skills and tasks that are necessary to obtain job-entry level employment as an auto body technician was conducted at the Southwest Wisconsin Vocational-Technical Institute from March to July 1975. Surveys were distributed to employees, vocational graduates, and employers in the auto body trade. The survey determined…

The McLennan Community College Multi-County Needs Assessment Project's (MAP) survey to identify employer needs is discussed in the document. The Business and Industry Survey, one component of MAP, was conducted in the central Texas area (Bosque, Falls, Hill, and McLennan counties) during 1974-1975. Survey development and procedures for its…

This review focuses on women in educational administration as compared with men in the same field. The author recognizes sex discrimination as a historical fact and begins by discussing some of the current psychological effects of cultural conditioning. She then examines the role of the counselor dealing with high school seniors who express an…

In this guidebook, the Public Education Religion Studies Center (PERSC) provides answers to questions frequently raised about religion studies in public schools. It is useful to those initiating study about religion in public schools and to those evaluating both formal and informal study and experiences now part of a school's program or…

This paper examines consumer education choices over variables affecting the quality and the costs of differing educational outcomes. For ten years, the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has pursued a policy of open enrollment. Transfer figures for the 1974-75 school year at the city's 15 high schools are analyzed according to schoolwide racial data,…

This brief, filed by Educational Testing Service (ETS), a non-profit educational corporation, deals with whether Test 21, a test of verbal ability developed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission and used by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia to select police recruits, is sufficiently job-related to be legally permissible…

The booklet describes 40 occupations related to the environmental areas of studying the earth, tackling pollution, better food and fewer diseases, developing the land and its uses, and protecting natural resources. For each occupation, duties are outlined and working conditions discussed. Techniques used to complete the illustrations include brief…

This document represents a complete compilation of instruments used by the University of Georgia Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) staff to field test the Georgia Principal Assessment System in order to validate high priority principal competencies and performance indicators during the 1974-75 project year. The seven…

Some of the problems involving language education and the employability of translators are discussed here. (1) The selling of translation, when compared with the more marketable skills in areas such as accounting, physics, etc., is an issue in the translator's employability. It is more difficult for a translator to measure quantitative…

The research study was undertaken to provide data on skills and competencies to aid persons developing curricula for electromechanical technician training programs. Through a 73.8 percent return of 212 questionnaires distributed to Iowa electromechanical technicians, five occupational areas were identified as representative: residential appliance…

The study is an investigation and demonstration of the degree to which military experience in certain specialties is continuous with the career development patterns of workers in the entire United States society. Selected characteristics of 24 military occupations (six from each branch of the services) were compared with similar characteristics of…