This manual contains information on two evaluation systems for occupational programs at California community colleges. For the first, COPES (Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System), which is a self-evaluation process, a guide is provided as well as a set of seven evaluation forms for the college president, faculty, counselors…

In a four-section final report with its focus on methodology rather than on findings of particular follow-up studies, this project addresses two needs--to identify, review, and analyze vocational student and employer follow-up efforts at local, state, and federal levels, and to prepare training materials useful to individuals or groups at all…

An Open University course text, People in Cities--An Ecological Approach (Block 3), is presented. Three sections of the block are: the ecology of urban life, socialization and some implications for the urban child, and the compensatory debate. Some of the adaptive processes and ways in which failures of adaptation are distributed in different…

Kindergarten pupils enrolled in Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I schools were selected for the Kindergarten Extended Day (KED) Program if they showed marked underachievement on the Cooperative Preschool Inventory (CPI). KED students attended kindergarten for an additional half day. Since previous evaluations of KED may have had…

THE PRODUCT OF A CONFERENCE WHICH CONCENTRATED ON THE ISSUES OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT, THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME DEAL WITH (1) THE SOCIAL-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (2) RACIAL ISOLATION AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (3) THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN AND NEGRO AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, (4) SOCIAL DEVIANCE…

In this part of the Kansas City Study of Adult Life, educational implications of adult activities and goals were explored, with emphasis on effective living in middle life. Performance of adult developmental tasks and motivation toward effort in these areas were investigated. Criteria were offered for assessing high, medium, and low performance in…

Preliminary specifications of major equipment and programing systems characteristics for a remote terminal central computing facility serving 25-75 secondary schools are presented. Estimation techniques developed in a previous feasibility study were used to delineate workload demands for four model regions with different numbers of institutions…

Literature, language, and composition are integrated in this collection of 30 model teaching units for grades 9-12. The units are concerned with (1) the explication and comparison of novels by Hemingway, Wilder, Kipling, and Knowles, (2) short story techniques used by writers from Poe to Joyce, (3) poetic structure and themes as demonstrated in…

To synthesize knowledge concerning factors which affect occupational achievement through a set of explicit models based upon the concept of the socioeconomic life cycle, six major bodies of data from various sources were collected and subjected to secondary analysis. A number of items of lesser scope were gleaned from additional sources for use in…

The central purpose of the project's research efforts is its concentration on: (1) the placing of career development of noncollege bound in a learning theory frameowrk, (2) how to communicate with and motivate the noncollege bound, and (3) the development of materials and techniques designed to provide the kind of stimulus that will permit an…

A pilot study was conducted to demonstrate the use of dance as a method for improving and extending curriculum content of world cultures in elementary schools. The secondary objectives emphasized nonverbal experience as a means of interpreting the patterns of cultural values in West and Central Africa. Most of the 41 presentations of the dance…

Under the sponsorship of the National Project in Agricultural Communications, a series of 14 lessons by various authors has been compiled to serve as a reader or training manual in the field of visual communications. Several models of communications are outlined and evaluated. Many studies which concern themselves with the concepts of source,…

A study was done to discover and generate a theory of instructional design based on procedures currently used in selected adult education agencies. The methodology used was to generate grounded theory in four stages as follows: (1) discovery of a number of categories into which the collected data are coded, (2) integration of the categories and…

Designed to provide information for local school district personnel in the state of Washington, this Community Resource Trainer (CRT) manual is the product of those school district administrators and coordinators who piloted the CRT Program in three small, rurally isolated high schools between the 1972-73 and 1973-74 school years. Illustrating the…

Generalizability theory extends previous methods of estimating the reliability of rating instruments such that one can estimate the precision of a measurement system for differentiating among students, scales, or any other important dimension. In this study, generalizability theory is applied to faculty ratings of junior and senior dental students…