By 1980, the cost of graduate education may reach an annual rate of $20 billion, the number of graduate students may rise to 1.3 million, and substantially increased federal support for most US colleges and universities will be required. This report presents a national policy for graduate education that would maintain the current strong position…

A model curriculum is reported for training personnel who are responsible for managing highway maintenance field operations. The training is organized and sequenced by five broad areas--management problems, management by objective, work planning, work control and management systems. In each area, one or more training units are provided for each of…

Under a grant from the North Dakota State Board for Vocational and Technical Education, a project in vocational research in the field of Environmental Science Technology was conducted for the purpose of developing vocational education curricula. The resulting curricula is for a two year program. The proposal is divided into suggested courses to be…

Summaries are provided of the papers presented and the discussions held during the symposium "Improving Productivity of School Systems Through Educational Technology." The meeting was sponsored by the National Institute of Education's Technology and Productivity Task Force and ran August 20-22, 1973. Its purpose was to explore indepth…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit explains how maintenance work should be described, measured, and classified. It is designed for supervisors who need to know the mechanics of describing work. The format is a programed, self-instruction approach in which information is presented in progressive segments or…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit is about maintenance standards and is designed for superintendents and senior foremen who are responsible for scheduling and controlling routine maintenance. It describes different kinds of standards, why and how standards are developed, and how standards are to be used and…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit describes the ways maintenance standards are developed and some of the factors which are considered in setting standards; the preceding unit on standards (part 1) should be completed before reading this unit. The format is a programed, self-instruction approach in which…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit explains various uses of maintenance standards and how standards should be interpreted and communicated to formen and crew leaders. Several examples are given of the decisions made when applying the standards to routine work. The preceding units on standards (parts 1 and 2)…

This newsletter for the Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project includes the educational objectives in the affective domain for the course. The major categories for these sixteen objectives are: (1) Interaction of science, technology and society; (2) Matching technology to people, society and the environment; and (3) Use of technological concepts.…

Over 1,400 16 millimeter films are listed which are available from United States military organizations. They are free of charge for public, non-profit exhibition and cover a widely diverse range of subjects including vocational education, military history, industrial safety, transportation, and public works. The guide lists these films in…

Colorado State University launched an experimental program, CO-TIE (Cooperation via Televised Instruction in Education), with one other 4-year college and five 2-year colleges in the state. The program was designed to ease the transition of junior college transfer students in engineering and other professional disciplines to a 4-year college. It…

Guidelines are presented for achieving the human factors inputs to the TA (Technical Approach) in the design process. (For each Navy training device, a TA determination provides for the evolution of the necessary technology.) A method is described which allows correlation of instructional requirements with engineering design solutions. The three…

This paper describes a project designed to: (1) develop a model for determining occupational activity components to be used in any vocational-technical program, (2) produce a list of occupational activity components (tasks) for the occupational roles identified, (3) determine scores, ranks and percentages for each component from each occupational…

The reference tools discussed in these two units of the instructional package (other units are: LI004051 and LI004053 through 004055) are: General Technical Encyclopedias and Engineering Handbooks. The unit concerned with encyclopedias summarizes the basic features of a good encyclopedia and gives some general procedures which are helpful in…

To find the relationship between industrial and engineering technologists in order to develop an internal framework for the technologists' roles in technical occupations, this study involved 30 engineering and 100 industrial technologists. Questionnaires concerning their opinions were used to obtain data. Findings include: (1) The relationship of…