The evaluation of a 3-year pilot program of vocational education in 34 Wisconsin comprehensive high schools as set forth in this manual focuses on (1) the extent to which pilot schools individually and collectively were able to identify local program needs and meet them, and (2) the extent to which local programs were accepted as part of the…

This volume contains evaluation reports for 1967-68 secondary-school activities in the Los Angeles Unified School District, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Included are all activities which continued through the school year or extended into the 1968 summer session. Some 32 activities were carried out in…

The New England Library Information Network (NELINET) entered the pilot project stage late in 1967 when the University of New Hampshire became the first member of the network to be connected to the processing center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The five other New England state university libraries were ready to be connected at the time of this…

Included in this volume of appendices to LI 000 979 are acquisitions flow charts; a current operations questionnaire; an algorithm for splitting the Library of Congress call number; analysis of the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC II) format; production problems and decisions; operating procedures for information transmittal in the New England…

Previous and present relationships between colleges and their communities are examined to determine the various forms of intervention, both social and economic, that will shape this relationship in the future. Four forms of community intervention are identified. (1) By its participation in college programs and services, the community is the…

The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges organized a consortium of five observation and demonstration colleges to implement pilot programs aimed at older adults. Site selection was made on the bases of geographic dispersion, community variation, economic characteristics, and the proportion of older adults in the population. This…

A model was developed for implementing career education into an existing curriculum and is composed of four essential elements based on a perceived need: needs assessment, participation facilitation, curriculum design and implementation process. Each element of the model is totally dependent on the completion of the components comprising each…

Five high schools and three middle schools participated in a career education project conducted during 1974-75 in the Catholic Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island. The program was designed to aid students in the development of maximum awareness of self and of community. During the first project year, an awareness of the concept of career education…

The Tigard School District, Oregon has designated two schools as models in a long-range career education plan which includes developing programs and processes for career awareness at the elementary level and career exploration at the junior high school level. A team selected by the Oregon Board of Education carried out a formative assessment…

The test packet is part of an eight volume unit for grades 10, 11, and 12, designed for individualized progression in preparing the student for entry into the occupation of accounting clerk. The test packet contains both pretests and post-tests for lessons 12 through 21. The unit is concerned with the basic accounting theory as it is used in the…

The test packet is part of an eight volume unit for grades 10, 11, and 12, designed for individualized progression in preparing students for entry into the occupation of accounting clerk. The test packet contains both pretests and post-tests for lessons 1 through 12. The unit is concerned with the basic accounting theory found in the accounting…

The document is an evaluation report of an exemplary program to introduce eighth grade students of Sherwood High School (Sherwood, Oregon) to an exploratory and career-oriented program in the four areas of business education, home economics, industrial education, and vocational agriculture--horticulture. The assessment team gave major overall…

The proposal describes a demonstration career education project designed to promote career education philosophy, methods, program activities, and evaluation procedures in designated local education agencies (LEAs). The project's title is Academic Enhancement Through Career Education (ACE). The proposal's first section contains the proposal itself…

A seminar on direct teaching by television, held in Rome in December of 1966, created such interest that it was decided to call a second seminar, restricted to adult education, which was held at Scheveningen, July 1-5, 1968. The subject was the assessment of needs and evaluation of results. The purpose was to compare, at a European level, the…

Concerted Services in Training and Education was conceived as one way to minimize the dysfunctional effects of technological developments on rural communities. Three pilot projects were established to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a concerted approach to solving the training problem and other needs of rural people. One project was…