The Louisiana State Library reviewed its Pilot Library Program to determine its effect on future library development in state institutions. The program was a cooperative endeavor between the state library, an individual institution, and the state agency responsible for administering this institution. Mental, charitable, and penal institutions were…

This report describes and evaluates The World Is Your Museum Program -- its objectives and information from an Interim Evaluation Report -- and provides other evaluative information from teachers, students, and the project director. The program involved 300 students from eight public and two non-public elementary (K-5) art classes in Washington,…

This report provides descriptive information on the research, demonstration, and evaluation programs of the Office of Child Development during fiscal year 1974. An overview describing the role, function, and long range goals of the Office of Child Development is presented. Specific research, demonstration, and evaluation projects (both…

The report presents a record of the second year activities of Project MODEL (Mobile Occupational Development Education Laboratories). Included are a brief description of the project and an examination of the various operation activities; components, the development of nine objectives, their status, and their disposition; financial verification;…

The study unit is intended for use by teachers in an exemplary project in career education in Bridgeport, Connecticut for the school year 1973-1974. It consists of three complete units each for the kindergarten through grade 8 levels with five career clusters identified for grades 6, 7, and 8. The units for use at the kindergarten level focus on…

A description of the General Work Education Program developed for high school students in the Mesa Public Schools and procedures for its implementation are discussed in the document. The program provides students with an opportunity to gain occupational knowledge through two basic approaches: (1) work exposure, including formal observation of a…

The trainer-directed manual describes a 45-minute school staff orientation session of not more than 36 participants in which the potential of the classroom for teaching the interdependence of society as revelaed through the world of work is explored. The purpose, activities, outcomes duration, setting, and resources needed are stated. The script…

This report describes 11 pilot projects which were initiated by the Connecticut Joint Teacher Education Committee (JTEC). The JTEC, which was created to administer two Public Acts established in 1968, consists of members of the Commission for Higher Education and members of the State Board of Education. The two Public Acts provide funds to…

The New Rural Society Concept, which urges establishment of a more balanced rural-urban population distribution in response to the interdependent rural-urban energy crisis, is explicated in this report on a model project initiated in 1972 in 10 northeastern Connecticut townships. The following are cited as major project objectives: (1) to obtain…

This report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a pilot early intervention program for parents and their infants 1 to 36 months old. Parents were trained by paraprofessionals (under the direction of professionals) to increase their psychomotor areas. The pilot project included 90 families with children under three years of…

When public pressure mounts for teacher accountability, current methods of evaluating teachers are widely regarded as inadequate. Teachers often feel that evaluation is hasty, arbitrary, and threatening; more important, it gives them little practical help in improving their performance. This paper describes a pilot test of a new collegial…

The project was designed to provide counseling services for children in poverty areas by preparing community educators to function as counselors. Participants were counselors, teachers, administrators, and employees of helping agencies (Boy Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, etc.) from two school administrative districts evidencing poverty-related problems. The…

The paper focuses on one aspect of the training and utilization of military manpower--specialty training for first-term enlisted personnel. Costs of both formal and on-the-job training (OJT) are considered, as well as the returns from training for first-time enlisted personnel. After a description of the conceptual framework the paper describes…

The materials included in this document concern the theory, objectives, and administrative issues behind the project to describe the languages of the world. The basic objective of the project is to collect a series of language descriptions which achieve an acceptable level of descriptive adequacy without interfering with the freedom of the…

In evaluating this pilot project, which developed a computer system for assessing student progress and cost effectiveness as related to achievement of performance objectives, interviews were conducted with project participants, including project staff, school administrators, and the auto shop instructors. Project documents were reviewed and a…