The orientation of this report is that of identifying educational projects which can be considered truly exemplary. The bulk of the report consists of a 23-step procedure for validating the effectiveness of educational programs using existing evaluation data. It is not intended as a guide for conducting evaluations but rather for interpreting data…

The three volume report documents the project to review and evaluate the educational component of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Camp System: the first volume summarizes the project; the second presents in detail the project design, findings and conclusions, recommendations, and guidelines for implementation; and the third volume contains…

A 3-day meeting of the Southern Region Research Conference in Agricultural Education was held in July 1972 for 22 participants to study the research implications for performance-based teacher education. The following presentations were made: (1) "Performance-Based Teacher Education in Perspective" by O.L. Snowden, (2) "Utilizing…

This monograph presents the papers and addresses of resident and adjunct faculty of the Fifth Rochester Institute, which examined new needs of two-year college students and various innovative institutional responses. Resident faculty papers deal with a variety of issues involving career education: "Career Education: A Humanistic…

Identification of 26 high priority problem areas in education which affect the lives of the Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Latin American peoples in the United States is made in this report. Examination of these areas, determined by a research task force, led to the development of 20 "state-of-the-art" papers which generated…

In the 1968-69 controversy over the foreign language requirement for the B.A. degree in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts of the University of Michigan, the College faculty chose a compromise solution to the policy in practice since 1954 of a required 4-semester study of a foreign language with placement testing. Policy alternatives…

The materials for individualized or group instruction feature a workbook type format with correlated tape discussions. The program, developed at a 1967 teacher education workshop at Iowa State University utilizes the expertise of several leaders and resource guest speakers to acquaint preservice and inservice teachers with vocational home…

Sources of the materials presented are: (1) Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) publications, (2) Dissertation Abstracts, (3) Masters' Theses in Education, and (4) Nursing Research. In addition, approximately 200 letters were sent to governmental agencies, universities, schools, and professional organizations to locate studies relevant…

Information is provided concerning special education throughout Texas, the relationship of special education to other programs in the state for handicapped persons, services for handicapped persons, and the division of special education and its functioning. A field study is provided in which teachers, supervisors, and administrators of special…

Information forms were sent to the state department of education, the 20 instructional materials laboratories, and 1,096 trade and technical teachers to secure data on the status, preparation, distribution and use of instructional materials. Some findings were: (1) Most state departments financially assist laboratories, (2) Few state departments…

The work of four task forces on human deprivation is reported. Aspects of deprivation treated include psychosocial deprivation and personality development; influences of biological, psychological, and social deprivations upon learning and performance; socialization and social structure; and biological substrates of development and behavior. For…

This 1968 report synthesizes information obtained by the Governor's Study Commission on the Public School System of North Carolina, during their comprehensive 1-year study to determine the most suitable means for providing full educational opportunity for the children of North Carolina. Public hearings and research conducted by the commission, its…

Papers presented during a national conference on research on blindness are concerned with the following: the individual, stress, and the new world of social and technological change; parent-child relationships; old age; childhood and adolescence; social participation and citizenship; motivation; and education. Also discussed are stress and…

A Statewide Study Team presented a comprehensive plan for educational improvement in North Dakota. Several basic educational problems were identified which can be solved by qualified educational personnel. This document describes the personnel situation. Discussion includes the following: characteristics of public school teachers in terms of…

Under Kentucky's Foundation Program Law of 1954 as amended, which provides for classroom units for exceptional children, the number of such units has increased from 99.3 to 29 districts in the Program's first year to 1,060 in 148 of the state's 193 districts in 1969-70. Units for the mentally retarded increased most, from 22.5 to 732.3, in 130…