The intent of this book is to acquaint teachers with the realistic situations and composing processes that they can use when teaching business, report, and scientific writing. An introductory chapter provides a working definition of technical writing that reflects such essential writing components as recording the experience and having an…

The five units on American Urban Studies presented in this curriculum guide are designed to examine the development, present conditions, and alternatives for the future of urban areas. Major emphasis in these units is on contemporary urban problems and possibilities for their solution. The major objectives covered in this course outline are: (1)…

This document presents a training course on water pollution developed by the staff of the National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt. This course, which is organized by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), is intended for Junior Bachelor of Science (B.S.) graduates from various Arab countries. The duration of the…

The process of curriculum development involves two phases: transformation of research findings into curriculum material by external developers and implementation of curriculum materials by teachers. In a study of the development of an eighth grade biology unit in Israel, the authors examined the characteristics of and relationships between the…

Designed to increase the students awareness that career and consumer education goals relate to the rules of worthwhile play and learning situations, this teacher's guide provides dialogue and activities based on existing concepts and content within the basal reader. The guide begins with lists of career education goal statements and consumer…

This report is the result of a three-year survey of uniform course numbering systems across the nation, conducted by a committee created by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. It describes the establishment of the committee and then provides an overview of the responses to the survey from the 50 states. This is followed by an…

Surveys in 1972 and 1977 of colleges and universities in New York state were used to judge advances and declines in black literature course offerings, course enrollment, course content, and instructor preparation. In 1972, 76 of the responding registrars said that their schools were offering black literature courses, while only 36 registrars made…

The Career Planning and Decision-Making (CPDM) course for college, one component in a set of career exploration materials developed by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, was evaluated in two field tests. During 1977 the first field test was conducted to obtain formative information about the student text. Findings revealed that the CPDM course…

This K-8 curriculum guide is intended to provide the direction and structure necessary for a unified mathematics curriculum. In addition, it is intended that this guide help raise the scores on the Georgia Criterion Referenced Test (CRT) and the Comprehensive Test for Basic Skills (CTBS). The guide contains: notes to the teacher; an explanation of…

The three-, two- and one-parameter (Rasch) logistic item characteristic curve models are compared for use in a large multi-section college course. Only the three-parameter model produced clearly unacceptable parameter estimates for 100 item tests with examinee samples ranging from 594 to 1082. The Rasch and two-parameter models were compared for…

A study of the goals of an accelerated composition and literature curriculum was subdivided into a "concurrence" strand designed to determine the agreement on course objectives by students, parents, and teachers, and an "attainment" strand to determine the extent to which students attained existing objectives. The study involved 269 tenth and…

This paper describes a year-long, college senior composition course based on nature writing and open to students from all content areas. Nature writing is defined as writing about nature with the specific requirement that the writer must remain true to the objective facts of nature while at the same time presenting the human response to, and the…

The report addresses the need for retraining direct service personnel in community based programs as a result of deinstitutionalization. The state of the art regarding state practices in job descriptions and classifications for paraprofessionals indicated the existence of few systematic attempts to retrain current instituional staff. Few examples…

The purpose of this investigation was to classify a sample of high school biology students into concrete and formal operational levels using three separate instruments: (1) a battery of Piagetian tasks (the pendulum, bending rods, and the balance beam); (2) a written biology examination consisting of questions requiring concrete and formal…

This technical specialty course is one of thirty-five courses designed for use by two-year postsecondary institutions in five nuclear technician curriculum areas: (1) radiation protection technician, (2) nuclear instrumentation and control technician, (3) nuclear materials processing technician, (4) nuclear quality-assurance/quality-control…