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Download full textHelge, Doris I. – 1980
Data collected from 19 state education agencies through questionnaires and interviews focused on special problems and approaches in rural areas for complying with four major aspects of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act: individualized education programs (IEPs), least restrictive environment (LRE), procedural safeguards,…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1981
This guide is intended to help vocational educators learn more about adult women's life experiences and the skills, knowledge, and abilities they develop through them. It also shows how to assess experiential learning to provide better career counseling and give academic credit or improved course placements. Chapter 1 overviews life experience…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Credits, Experience, Experiential Learning
Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1981
These materials illustrate the concepts presented in "The Guide for Foreign Languages in Utah." Three model lessons, in elementary, intermediate, and advanced placement Spanish, are presented as a means of illustrating the practical application of the teaching goals and techniques outlined in the Utah "Course of Study for Foreign Languages." The…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Audiolingual Methods, Language Skills, Lesson Plans
Ross, Kristy L.; And Others – 1977
This learning module on establishing a student placement service and coordinating follow-up studies is one of six competency based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It discusses the rationale and objectives for a school-based placement service. Topics discussed include assessing…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Check Lists, Competency Based Teacher Education, Cooperative Programs
Zucker, Stanley H.; And Others – 1979
In the study involving 180 second and third grade teachers the effect of a student's sex or race on recommendations for placement in special classes for the educable mentally retarded was determined. Ss were randomly assigned to one of four groups: Group 1 received a case study depicting an Anglo-American male; Group 2 received a case study…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mexican Americans
Poorman, Margaret J.; Fleckenstein, Randall C. – 1978
Kirkwood Community College, with an enrollment of 4,200 full-time students, received Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) funds to address the problems of (1) the lock step nature of most of its occupational programs, (2) an attrition rate of approximately 15%, (3) once-a-year placement of graduates, (4) employer and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs
Walsh, E. Michael; Reynolds, R. John – 1976
A follow-up study of the first two graduating classes (1974 and 1975) of the School of Technical Careers (STC) Baccalaureate Program was conducted. Questionnaires were sent to eighty-seven graduates (of ninety) who had United States addresses on file. Questions pertained to current labor market status, current occupation, first job after…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment, Employment Potential, Followup Studies
PDF pending restorationHicks, Reta D.; Monroe, Eula – 1979
A cloze informal reading inventory (CIRI) was constructed from a basal reading series and administered to all 120 second through sixth grade students at a university laboratory school to determine if CIRI was as effective as a traditional informal reading inventory (IRI). All students scoring below second and above eighth grade on the IRI were…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Lutz, William D. – 1979
In March 1977, the New Jersey Board of Higher Education created the New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program. To direct the program, the Board created the Basic Skills Council, which was charged with developing a test in reading, writing, and mathematics for all freshmen entering all New Jersey public colleges and universities. The purpose was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Wircenski, Jerry L.
The study identified characteristics and innovative approaches employed by exemplary vocational education programs in serving the disadvantaged in co-op, self-contained, and mainstreamed settings (secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels). Forty-one states, three territories and the District of Columbia responded to the request for three program…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Lutz, William D. – 1980
The development of the portion of a basic skills test that would adequately assess the writing ability of entering college freshmen in New Jersey is described in this paper. The stages of the test development process that are discussed include the decision to incorporate a writing sample in the form of an essay on a specified topic, the selection…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Smith, Richard M.; Mitchell, Virginia P. – 1980
To analyze test item and person interactions according to the Rasch Model, 822 incoming community college freshman were administered the New Jersey Basic Skills Placement Test. The Logical Relationships and Elementary Algebra subtests were chosen to examine the effect of differing average item difficulty on descriptions of fit statistics and on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit
Kim, Jin Eun – 1980
A project was conducted to study impacts of vocational education research and development with special emphasis on the job placement and followup program in Indiana. The specific objectives were (1) to investigate the impact of R & D projects in vocational education and the conceptual and methodological problems in impact studies, and (2) to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Followup Studies, Job Placement, Program Development
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1979
This is a report of hearings held in New York City on September 17, 1979, and in Philadelphia on October 20, 1979, on two federal youth employment bills: H.R. 4465 and H.R. 4534. H.R. 4465 proposes to combine immediate work and training and training opportunities with long term changes in the institutions and programs which serve young people.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Job Placement
WELLS, INEZ RAY – 1966
GUIDELINES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR A TERMINAL COURSE OFFERED DURING THE SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL IN WHICH THE STUDENT GOES TO SCHOOL ONE-HALF TIME AND WORKS ON THE JOB ONE-HALF TIME. THE STENOGRAPHIC, CLERICAL, AND BOOKKEEPING AREAS ARE EMPHASIZED. SECTIONS INCLUDED ARE (1) INITIATING THE PROGRAM, (2) LOCAL PROBLEMS, (3) RESPONSIBILITIES…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Coordinators
