Designed as a resource for junior high teachers (7-8), this curriculum activities guide is third in a set of four based on an articulated (K-12) career education competency curriculum model designed to infuse career education into the curriculum on a districtwide basis. Materials for each of the four program components are arranged under the…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of 14 terminal objectives for a high school child care services course. This course is designed to provide opportunities for exploring a broad range of child care, guidance, and service occupations. Major concepts include characteristics of…

This project sought to develop a competency based curriculum for Associate Degree Nursing that would be a logical outgrowth of the principles on which student performance outcomes and measurable exit criteria were based. The report includes the products, processes, and evaluation of each of the following project objectives: identification of the…

Adaptable to individual student needs and the community, this basic curriculum guide is designed for use in initiating and teaching a high school or adult two-year child-care teacher-aide program in vocational education. Four levels of occupations are covered--babysitter, nursery school facilities aide, nursery school teacher aide, and assistant…

This report reviews activities of a research project having the following objectives: identify selected personal characteristics of Iowa vocational agriculture students; determine how important students thought their vocational agriculture supervised occupation experience (SOE) was in developing occupational abilities; and determine how important…

Focusing on railroad occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include brake operators, conductors, locomotive engineers,…

The validity of seven criteria utilized in conjunction with personal interviews and School and College Ability Test scores in the selection of applicants for admission to four Allied Health programs was investigated. The independent predictor variables studied were high school grade point average (GPA), the number of high school natural science…

Intended to be used by secretarial science students in a single skills laboratory, this performance based instructional unit on spelling contains ten assignments covering the following areas: pronunciation, homonyms, often confused words, compound and hyphenated words, "ei" and "ie" words, silent "e" words, prefixes, suffixes, word endings, and…

The guide, developed to assist administrators and teachers involved in starting and administering public service career education programs, suggests guidelines for utilizing the six curriculum guides contained in the Public Service Occupations Curriculum Project. An introductory chapter discusses public service careers, the career education…

Highlights of the findings from a three phase study are presented in the report. Data were drawn from annual surveys, beginning in 1966, of the entire entering freshman classes at a national sample of higher education institutions and from followup studies, at subsequent intervals, of smaller subsamples of the same students. The growing popularity…

The theme for the proceedings of the conference is "Technical Education--A Continuing Search for Quality." The topics of the 10 papers included in the proceedings covered the search for quality, technical teacher training, effective student counseling, educational management by objectives, educational management through joint participation with…

The 20 resource English units which comprise the guide for grades seven-nine are designed to supplement, rather than replace, regular instructional materials and are intended for use as enrichment materials to use as reinforcement exercises after regular English units have been taught. The purpose of the guide is to give students a chance to…

The report represents the results of a 1973 survey of senior students in hospital schools of nursing. Prepared by the American Hospital Association (AHA) Division of Career Information, the report is based on data compiled by the AHA Division of Survey Research. More than 11,000 students in 388 schools completed and returned a questionnaire which…

The responsiveness of Georgia's universities, senior, and junior colleges to the state's students is reported. Many new programs were added, modified, or expanded, and were implemented to keep up-to-date with requirements for new types and emphases of instruction, research, and public service that reflect rapidly changing technology and economic…

The content of this bibliography is drawn from a broad range of health and education literature. The sole criterion for inclusion was the applicability of the subject material, directly or indirectly, to clinical education. The literature reflects contemporary trends in education in the health professions: it deals with manpower distribution and…