The views of incoming college freshmen at the College of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, about the value of a college education were assessed, as part of the college's annual 1978 entrance testing program. Students were asked to write an essay on this topic, along with a second essay about their language skills, which is described in a separate report.…

This curriculum guide states health education program standards for schools in the Philadelphia School District. The major goal of the program, designed for students from kindergarten to ninth grade, is to help students develop attitudes and practices that contribute to the maintenance of personal health. The "key competencies" listed in this…

"Freestyle," a new television series, is designed to expand career awareness of children ages 9 through 12 and reduce the limiting effects of sex role and ethnic stereotyping. The series is a product of the Television Career Awareness Project (TV CAP), a consortium of six agencies funded by a grant from the National Institute of Education (NIE).…

Prominent social scientific research on college populations carried out in recent years are reviewed in this report. Focus is on: the characteristics of the entering student; changes in student characteristics occurring during the college years; changes in mental ability, skills and knowledge changes in attitudes and values; changes in…

As a part of the general project investigating how home economics teachers can adapt their teaching methods and materials to the special needs students, this individualized instructional guide is designed to provide practical information, suggestions, and guidance for the classroom teacher. Following a brief description of special needs students,…

One of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies, this module focuses on developing an understanding of competencies needed, and the self-concept necessary, to organize and direct a total…

Oral history can contribute to social education in a number of ways. Traditionally, data collection has been considered as providing the most benefits to students of oral history. These benefits have derived from the facts that: (1) historical knowledge is immediate and tangible, (2) oral history stimulates students' interests, (3) students…

As the appendix for a series of curriculum guides for consumer and homemaking education on the secondary level in Kentucky, this booklet contains instructional activities for classroom use in conjunction with the units in the comprehensive curriculum guides. Included are games, puzzles, skits, quizzes, survey forms, checklists, and review sheets…

This paper, a teacher's informal account of her own professional growth and teaching experiences over a 10-year period, focuses particularly on her experiences as a participant in a non-credit seminar on children's thinking and on the impact this seminar had on her teaching. The seminar included wide-ranging questions of philosophy, teaching…

A plan for staff development was evolved at Williamsport Area Community College (Pennsylvania), a primarily vocational-technical school. Program objectives were established and questionnaires constructed to survey needs of trustees, professional, and classified staff. A five-part recommendation resulted that included (1) the placement of…

The four-year followup study (the fifth and last of such four-year evaluations of graduates) aimed at pinpointing the program's benefits to the graduates in the educational social/personal, and financial areas. Thirty-two of the 41 graduates responded to the mailed questionnaire, which elicited demographic, occupational, educational, financial,…

The study explored the impact of mid-career changes for women who were enrolled in or had recently completed a program in the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) System for the purpose of changing careers from housewife and mother to that of labor force participant. Sixty-six women, aged 30-49, returned a survey…

Volume 5 of the six-volume articulated elementary education career guide deals with the appreciation--attitudes, decision making, educational awareness, and employability levels of career awareness and aims at developing student social self-fulfillment, career decisions, educational identity, and career placement. The lessons in the volume are…

This evaluation report carries a description of each project then in operation, an analysis of the evaluative data collected for each, and recommendations for improvement. Objectives of the projects, geared for disadvantaged youth (K-12), were: improvement of performance of capabilities of children with learning disabilities due to psychological,…

A tentative educational program proposed by the 1967 workshop regarding social studies education and curriculum is presented. They have evaluated the existent philosophy, curriculum, materials and methods, in terms of new developments in order to develop a more effective program. The primary objective is education for citizenship. The component…