The methods and procedures of education in our schools must be reexamined according to the writers who have contributed to this document. This is most strongly felt in the areas of testing and evaluation for it is these areas that may have the greatest impact on a child's educational career. This document is presented in three sections: (1) An…

The annotated bibliography describes in detailed outline form 75 books, articles, papers, and reports dealing with the following areas of continuing adult education: history and philosophy; setting, needs, and purposes; program development and methods; institutions and organizations; community colleges; cooperative extension; higher education…

Individualized units of math instruction related to each of several occupations in 14 occupational clusters comprise the high school career-related math curriculum. An introductory booklet provides students with general information on the clusters; when students have selected an occupation that interests them, they take the packet of instructional…

St. Bonaventure University holds a Language Day each spring, hosting some 3,900 area junior high and high school students. The buildings and facilities of the university campus are used, and activities include language competitions (exhibits, interpretative readings, language productions, audio-visual presentations and essays); a fiesta; foreign…

Faculty members in various Illinois universities work cooperatively in implementing and refining a program of teacher identification of problems of pupils which limit and handicap their progress in school. The Student Needs Assessment Program (SNAP) requires a high level of professional commitment from both teachers and the principal. Teachers use…

A model to encourage and facilitate change in school media programs was developed and field tested. The model was intended to provide assessment measures of media centers, planning strategies, and methods for implementing change. The model considered personnel, physical plant, collections, and operations. In 1975, the model was field tested in…

The program described and evaluated in this report is a nongraded (third and fourth grades) individualized learning situation in which students had available as educational stimuli the resources of three teachers and the combined materials of three classrooms. The program also contained provision for "blocks of time" during which various subjects…

This paper describes the past assumptions about the mismatch of child language and school language, noting the distance principle, the characteristics of language interference and the various treatments that have been hypothesized. Past research involving language mismatch and reading is reviewed, and it is noted that even though the best evidence…

This is a text intended for use with adult beginning classes in ESL in a 15-week intensive course. The major objective of the text is to develop communicative competence. Therefore, the structures are taught through mechanical drills, meaningful drills, and finally communicative drills, so that "teacher talk" is gradually diminished and "student…

Intended for use at the junior high school level, the three units are oriented toward career awareness, personal development, and career information. The 18 lessons in the first unit, Survey of Occupations, examine self-understanding and analysis, occupational choices, changing roles, employment patterns and opportunities, personal money…

The report briefly describes the workshop in personalizing adult basic education with respect to objectives, organization, and evaluation. Contributions of resource persons to the workshop included the following papers (texts printed in full) which comprise approximately 45 pages of the report: Planning for Adult Education, William P. Miller;…

The eighth in a series of nine career education guides contains six unit plans for grades 7-9. In general each unit presents goals, objectives, measuring devices, activities, instructional materials or resources, careers appropriate to the unit, a multimedia bibliography, and a unit evaluation form for teachers. Part one is a science unit which…

Broad and major concerns dealing with reading are set forth in this monograph to provoke discussion and examination by both researchers and practitioners. In Part 1, Kenneth S. Goodman presents a psycholinguistic view of language and reading (within a transformational-generative framework) as essentially a set of processes of recoding, decoding,…

Intended as a text and a reference work, the book emphasizes the development of broad institutional objectives, and covers in detail curriculum and course development, selection of learning experiences, and evaluation of nursing behavior. All subjects are approached through the critical incident technique, which presents material in brief case…

The occupational resource unit, one of a series encompassing grade levels one through ten, was prepared by the Lincoln County (West Virginia) Exemplary Project staff for classroom use at the second grade level or for use as a teaching model. The guide contains a synopsis of the entire unit, general objectives, behavioral objectives, teaching…