The purpose of this report prepared by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is to describe the growth of day care services in Illinois during 1972 and to present information which will aid state agencies and citizens in planning for and coordinating day care services. The report is divided into discussions of past, present, and…

An assessment program was developed to measure the efficiency of educational programs used in the school districts throughout Pennsylvania. The effectiveness of the school was determined by measuring its product, collective student performance. This required a design which takes into account other conditions which appear to contribute to student…

Part of an ongoing study to provide information for curriculum development and the institution of agricultural education programs to meet manpower demands in Montana, Phase II concerns itself with the judgments, skills, and attitudes needed to qualify for available jobs in agri-business and agricultural production. Each report is a composite of…

Enrollment data for technical colleges in Nebraska for the year 1972 are provided. Following a summary that discusses the technical college system, total enrollment, enrollment by academic level, freshmen enrollment, and solutions in reporting, 12 exhibits provide the detailed data. These exhibits are: Nebraska Technical Community Colleges,…

The views of 30 members of the Montana Commission on Post-Secondary Education and of a large sector of the Montana population as to the most important "issues and questions facing Montana postsecondary education" were solicited. The replies were categorized into the following subject areas: Goals, objectives and Priorities; Governance,…

Studied was the effectiveness of two Ohio State residential schools, one for the blind and one for the deaf, to determine whether the state should continue to operate the residential schools. The study involved a literature review, interviews with special educators, visits to the two residential schools, visits to selected Ohio day programs,…

This supplementary report begins with general information on licensing boards, associations, societies, reliability of data, and similar items. The second, and main, section deals with the following disciplines: administrators, doctors of medicine, doctors of osteopathy, dentists, dental hygienists, dieticians, inhalation therapists, medical…

The report is intended to provide current statistics on allied health careers as baseline data for evaluation, planning, and administration of allied health education programs. The document consists entirely of tables, except for the first three pages describing the problem, the collection of the data, and the limitations of the data, and for…

After seeking data from public, private, and voluntary health-related agencies, associations, and activities in the State, the committee reports on the following areas: health delivery system problems, health services, target groups (aged, medically indigent, migrants, newborns, infants, preschool children, and school-age children), personal…

The purposes of the research reported were (1) to determine future needs in Ohio for vocational education and (2) to develop useful planning information related to vocational education. The first section, Paradoxes in the Educational System, provides the reader with an understanding of the complexity involved in developing useful planning…

This material, developed from current State Department of Education Certification Bulletins, is presented in a manner which makes it possible to gain significant information concerning certification requiremtnts for guidance counselors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The format of the tables provides both general information as well…

Procedures for implementing the Pennsylvania Plan (see TM 000 608) are detailed, and the method of achieving representative sampling is described. Functions of school representatives involved in the data collection are listed, and their training is outlined. Procedures for collecting school and teacher information, and administering tests and…

Phase III of the Study of the Need for Educational Manpower for Handicapped Children and Youth, in demonstrating the feasibility of the Manpower Requirements Projection Model (MRPM), gathered data in the states necessary for implementation of the model. The MRPM was developed to enable state or local administrators of special education to estimate…

This study was designed to seek a solution to a common concern of postsecondary vocational technical institutions in five states, namely, the remuneration of educational personnel. The five states included in the survey had similar characteristics and conditions, and shared the problems of competition for capable staff and the availability of…

The fifth in a series of annual reports, the status report describes the overall North Carolina Program for Exceptionally Talented Children as instituted by local school units for the school year 1969-1970, evaluating the educational program against predetermined criteria. Statistical data are presented about all known gifted and talented (GT)…