Prepared as a program planning tool for participants of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Chief Area Education Officers 1974 conferences, this initial annual report includes topics discussed during the conferences; conference addressed presented by the Director of Indian Education Programs; conference evaluations; and selected reports presented…

The manual was developed through the combined efforts of the Maine University College of Education staff after carefully assessing the suggestions of Maine teachers who participated in a series of workshops conducted in the spring of 1974. It provides guidelines for planning a series of inservice training sessions for infusing career education…

The Academic Achievement Project (AAP) was conceived as a comprehensive plan for the improvement of the learning experiences of students in the public schools of the District of Columbia, primarily in the curriculum areas of reading and mathematics. A number of programs or components constituted the framework through which this project was to be…

Volume 1 of the report describes the Reporting and Evaluation System for Occupational Education (RESOE) in evaluating the effectiveness of occupational program offereings, and in basing program planning and funding decisions on such evaluation. A brief introduction is followed by an outline of the requirements for reporting and evaluating…

The manuscript is a draft written in nontechnical terms, for the purpose of acquainting local and regional occupational administrators with RESOE's functional specifications and basic design concepts. Following a brief introduction is a description of what RESOE does, covering: evaluation of occupational programs; program monitoring and…

A criterion-referenced instrument, Inventory of Cognitive Skills and Visual-Motor Functioning, was devised to evaluate a prekindergarten program for economically disadvantaged 4-year-olds. The Inventory, administered to each child at the beginning and end of the preschool experience, provided specific information in: (1) knowledge of body parts,…

The study's purpose was to use the Adjective Check List (ACL), a self-administered personality assessment instrument, to determine whether there were response differences between a sample of Adult Basic Education (ABE) students and the general test norms. The ACL was administered to 142 students in ABE high school completion programs in Des…

Sex-role stereotyping was found in almost all post-1970 high school level career guidance materials studied in a content analysis of more than 9,500 pages and 1,850 illustrations. Random samples of the materials, taken from commercial and noncommercial lists, indicated that: about 75 percent of illustrations of people of one sex were men; 75…

Presented from the perspective of the vocational rehabilitation counselor, the guide defines the essential elements of vocational evaluation and work adjustment programs and identifies problems experienced by State vocational rehabilitation agencies in obtaining high quality vocational evaluation and work adjustment services. It also provides…

The purpose of the seminar was to explore and exchange ideas on the evaluation process by providing a forum for the description of seven of the more highly developed client evaluation programs serving Illinois' handicapped clients: the Decatur Evaluation Center, the Employment Training Center, Goodwill Industries of Chicago and Cook County, Jewish…

This symposium focuses on the development and uses of a comprehensive evaluation system within a long-term research and development project in primary education. Issues and problems associated with this development over the past four years are discussed. These issues and problems include: (1) eudcational accountability; (2) parent participation,…

Reported are findings from the first year's field test of the home-oriented Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) Early Childhood Education Program for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. The program consists of a 30-minute daily television lesson, a weekly home visit by a paraprofessional, and group instruction once a week in a mobile classroom. The…

A new Joint Comprehensive Evaluation System for the assessment of 15 different federal programs has been developed by the U.S. Office of Education. In this system these diverse program services will be thought of as resources available to meet the needs of critical target groups. Using this approach, a set of nine crucial questions that need to be…

In this annual convention of the Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC), emphasis was on the universities' proper urban extension role and responsibility in the inner city, and on steps toward greater flexibility and wider educational opportunities in higher continuing education. Whitney Young's keynote speech on the need to correct…

The proceedings include five papers from a seminar designed to train rehabilitation personnel in the procedures, theories, and aims of work evaluation. Morton H. Bregman discusses the use of vocational evaluation in the counseling process; Henry Cobb describes methods of predicting vocational adjustment in the mentally retarded; and John Campbell…