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Cornbleth, Catherine – 1978
The purpose of this study is to identify trends in the historical development of inquiry and common elements in models of inquiry; evaluate the extent to which inquiry theory has been incorporated in representative inquiry oriented social studies curriculum project materials; and examine problems in curriculum development for inquiry skills. To…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems
McCoy, Vivian; Cassell, Phyllis – 1974
The Career Education for Women workshop is divided into six three-hour sessions; the leader's manual duplicates the participant's, with the addition of suggested procedures and appropriate remarks, and a listing of sources for materials. Although the leader is encouraged to adapt the presentations, the basic order of the workshop should be…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Exploration, Career Planning
McCoy, Vivian; Cassell, Phyllis – 1974
The participant's portfolio contains a wide and rich variety of resource materials, tests, exercises, and activities designed to provide an orderly process for self-understanding and an understanding of the world of work, in a six-session career workshop for women. Moving step-by-step through the workshop sessions and through between-session…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Exploration, Career Planning
Johnson, W. Julius – 1974
The junior high school instructional unit, part of a field-tested grade school level career education series, is designed to assist learners in relating present experiences to past and future ones. Before the main body of the lessons is described, field testing results are reported and key items are presented: the concepts, the estimated time for…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning
Masters, James R.; Laverty, Grace E. – 1974
This document summarizes an evaluation of William Glasser's Schools Without Failure (SWF) program carried out during the program's first year of operation in the New Castle, Pa. School District. Ten elementary schools were paired on the basis of size, socioeconomic status, and pupils' past achievement. One school of each pair was randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques
Stiggins, Richard J. – 1974
An open school alternative educational experience in the Edina Schools has been examined during its first year of operation by means of systematic observation of over 30 variables. During the six month evaluation period each variable was observed at least three times so as to contribute to the formative evaluation of the program. The results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Decision Making Skills, Educational Objectives
New Hampshire State Dept. of Education, Concord. – 1974
The five-part document consists of a developmental model aimed at providing guidance personnel and others with activities to: integrate career related activities into the secondary school curriculum, provide a greater degree of accountability by guidance personnel for students' career needs, enhance school curriculum and develop student…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Drake, James Bob; Morgan, Alice S. – 1974
The purpose of the project was to perfect a career decision-making model that could be used by an adult basic education teacher to help the disadvantaged adult upgrade himself educationally and make a realistic career decision based upon his and his family's personal value system; his goal decided upon, the model could be used to help him…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1974
The proceedings are a summary of three meetings of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) National Advisory Panel for the Career Education Curriculum Development Project. The two-year federally funded project is directed toward developing a comprehensive, introductory career education curriculum package for grades K-9 and designing alternative…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Business, Career Awareness, Career Change
Buchanan, John; And Others – 1970
This guide was developed jointly by members from the Departments of social studies, mathematics, English, and science. It sets forth the methods, materials and procedures of operation for the interdisciplinary teaching of this course. The overall objectives of the course are: 1) to teach the elements and process of decision-making; 2) to improve…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making Skills, Environmental Education
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1972
The goals of the first phase of a career exploration project were to change attitudes toward the world of work, upgrade values, and improve the self-concepts of approximately 550 Grade 7 and 8 disadvantaged youth in two Hartford middle schools. This was accomplished through a number of experiences and activities developed in five classroom units…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Attitude Change, Career Counseling, Career Education
Kerka, Sandra – 2001
Life is more complex than ever for adults in the 21st century as a result of technological advances; the changing nature of work, workplaces, and working relationships; international economic competition; the changing demographics of workers, families, and communities; and longer life spans. Learning to cope with all these changing…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Learning
Grantmakers for Education, 2005
Increasingly, foundations are choosing to engage in public policy debates as a way of leveraging their investments and increasing their impact in advancing improvements community-wide, statewide or nationally. For foundations, influencing public policy decisions can happen in different ways: funding policy research and dissemination, building…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Public Policy, Change Strategies, Organizational Change
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM. – 1996
This module is part of a set of management and supervisor training (MAST) materials developed by the Department of Energy for the Waste Isolation Division. Its stated purpose is to enable trainees to solve problems and make decisions in an efficient and effective manner. The first section of the module is an introduction that includes a terminal…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Creative Thinking, Decision Making
Lankford, David; McKay, Linda – 1996
This curriculum is designed to increase middle level students' understanding of positive leadership through ethical decision making, and to help them apply knowledge learned to realistic situations. The program objectives are to: (1) provide students with an understanding of the characteristics needed for positive leadership; (2) provide…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Leaders, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making
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