This report describes the effects of a 2-year affective-social education program offered by the elementary guidance services of the Stuttgart School District in Arkansas. Four groups of children (a total of 105 boys and 116 girls) were identified for this evaluation: Group I, involved in the program for two full years; Group II, participating one…

The activities in this curriculum guide are designed to facilitate self-evaluation, goal setting, and educator-student planning of junior high learning experiences relating to career maturity. It is suggested that the career maturity measurement activity worksheets can be included in the student's school record and used as a reference base for…

Designed to develop materials by a systems approach to help local postsecondary educators plan and evaluate vocational job training programs, this project focused on the following: (1) the personal, interpersonal, and social skills necessary for job acquisition and survival in office, trade, and industry occupations; (2) the development and field…

This article discusses the incompatibility between the goal of communicative competence (defined more narrowly as minimal approximative communicative competence) and current practices of syllabus design, and suggests more relevant alternatives. Foreign language instruction is still dominated by the teaching of language structure for its own sake,…

Test fairness or bias may be defined in many different ways, and the existence of possible bias is difficult to demonstrate. Sociolinguistic analysis may be used to check for fairness or bias in test directions, test content specifications, or test items. Four sociolinguistic principles are held to be relevant for this task: (1) pragmatics--that…

This report synthesizes the evaluation results of forty-five federally funded K-12 career education programs. Although, according to the author, diversity in individual program goals and evaluation procedures made the synthesis difficult and inconclusive, the tabulated evaluations are used to provide a status report on career education's progress…

Little has been done to test or describe reading strategies of second language learners. The study reported in this paper was an attempt to begin to investigate the nature of perceptual strategies which second language learners employ when reading certain English structures, and to ask the question of whether second language learners, when…

A study was conducted to determine the employment and training needs of rehabilitation homemaker paraprofessionals in North Dakota on the basis of program development. A survey instrument was developed from a review of the literature and input from a panel of advisors, and administered to 15 supervisors and 27 paraprofessionals at agencies that…

This package contains a teacher's card catalogue of 100 lesson plans (on cards) dealing with individual life skills topics to be used with English-as-a-second-language students, plus a teacher's guide for using the lessons. The cards are directed toward a specific competency, with 20 cards in each of five Adult Performance Level (APL) areas:…

Departmental differences in student perceptions of teaching effectiveness were measured using behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS). The 495 college students were taking junior and senior level courses in art, business, computer science, French, psychology, and sociology. Each subject completed either the BARS or a simple summated scale, both…

The effects of a graduate multicultural education course on 27 elementary and secondary teachers were studied. The subjects represented Chicano and Anglo ethnic groups. Teaching experience ranged from student teaching to eight years' experience. To help the subjects identify their own attitudes, questionnaires on ethnic and sex role identification…

Research was conducted that initially focused on identifying and synthesizing the large number of previously identified vocational special needs teacher competencies into an educational model. The model contained a matrix that organized all these competencies into twelve domains of four performance phases each. The Competency Matrix was the…

A course called "The Study of Teaching," designed to develop a theory on teaching and to explore the philosophy of teaching, is described. Five teacher education professors and five graduate students participated. Although one professor acted as instructor, the fifteen hour course was relatively unstructured and based on collegial discussion…

This guide is intended to assist the vocational teacher in designing and implementing a child care occupations vocational program. The guide is divided into four sections: organization and implementation, instructional emphasis areas, assessment, and appendix. The organization and implementation section describes goal-based planning, and includes…

The overall objective of this study was to assist vocational teachers and administrators in assessing the vocational aptitudes of handicapped students by conceptualizing a model. Various parts of the model included identification of diagnostic tools and measures, the job matching process, and the development of the Individual Education Program.…