Designed with the objective that the nursing needs of the people of the state be met by qualified practitioners of nursing prepared in institutions of higher education, the blueprint includes among its proposals the following: (1) that plans be completed for the transfer of all nursing programs to institutions of higher learning by 1972, (2) that…

Work as therapy is increasingly suggested as a means of helping the patient to develop and maintain stronger bonds with the community. The goal of a 44-month project, of which the initial 20-month period is reported, is to develop manpower programing knowledge to meet the vocational development needs of mental patients and to evaluate the manpower…

Five articles deal with concerns of teachers in the field of secondary speech education. The first article reports the responses of 84 speech education graduates to a questionnaire concerning their success in finding teaching jobs and their recommendations for course work for current speech education majors. Other articles discuss ways of helping…

Major provisions of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, are cited and discussed in this guide for teacher association leaders and staff. The role of local and state educational agencies in providing a free, appropriate, public education for handicapped students and methods for involving teachers, their associations,…

The document is a collection of papers presented at a conference on the delivery of services to learning disabled children in Indiana that focused on Indiana's Rule S-1, which implements the mandatory special education act through multidisciplinary identification, assessment, and placement of handicapped children. Titles and authors include…

This document explores the grouping of grades in elementary and secondary schools, examining the historical reasons for the development of grade clusters, from the appearance of the Prussian system in the nineteenth century to the impact of declining enrollment today. The influence of changing attitudes toward child development on the…

Information contained in this handbook is intended to provide a picture of the credit union job market and hiring procedures as they relate to young applicants. Section 1 of the handbook describes what credit unions are and why they are interested in young employees. Section 2 details the credit union job market, including discussion of jobs…

This paper reports the results of an 11 item questionnaire designed to ascertain the personal characteristics and backgrounds of newly-hired faculty in the 19 state North Central region. Useable responses were obtained from 406 full-time community college faculty who were hired for the 1973-74 school year. Ninety-six percent were white, 57 percent…

Three outside consultants were asked to evaluate the validity of current special education placement procedures and policies in the Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools (MCPS) to determine their effect on minority students. Procedures for obtaining information included mailing questionnaires to 396 families and observing in-service staffing…

The report describes the fourth and final study in a program of research into the relationships between the characteristics of human tasks and the abilities required for task performance. The goal was to generate principles for identification of ability requirements from knowledge of the characteristics of a task and of variations in the…

This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Cleff Job Matching System (CJMS). The CJMS provides a means by which jobs and job applicants can be matched at the semi- and low-skilled levels in both white- and blue-collar jobs. The CJMS operates by obtaining numerical profiles of both job seekers and jobs, across 16 Dimensions of Work,…

This report presents the results of the program evaluation of Ball State University Teacher's College's Teachers of the Disadvantaged (TOD) program. The students in this program take special courses and have special training intended to qualify them to teach children from lower socio-economic groups. Sixty-six elementary teachers who had been…

The report was prepared to increase awareness of the importance and nature of the placement process, to review current practices in placement and followup, and to provide guidelines to assist rehabilitation counselors in improving the delivery of placement and followup services. (NTIS)

In order to assess the effectiveness of the Survey of Reading Achievement Examination in placing freshmen into various levels of freshman English and in predicting scholastic achievement as measured by English grades and total grade point average (GPA), a study was made of 301 Los Angeles City College students chosen at random from the total…

This report presents the rationale, methodology, findings, and conclusions of a state-initiated program to assist disadvantaged persons in finding and maintaining stable jobs. Conducted under the direction of the California State Department of Human Resources Development (HRD), this incentive-based system utilizes job agents who are rewarded…