Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that the "Back on Track" program is designed to support students with a chronic illness (usually cancer) to maintain contact with their school and peers whilst undergoing treatment, to promote socio-emotional wellbeing and to facilitate the ease of return to school when they are well. An…

Article investigated an experimental programme at Boston University, involving the exploration of existing problems in the health field by small, interdisciplinary groups of graduate and professional students. (Author/RK)

Analyzing math curriculum projects should be more than an affair of the heart, claim the designers of a systematic scheme for finding the best curriculum for your particular school's needs. (Editor)

This fact sheet examines several issues in counselor and counseling program accountability. Issues in counselor accountability include credentialing, professional disclosure, documentation of activities, and linkage with outcomes. Program accountability issues involve stakeholders, availability of resources, documentation of activities, linkage…

The purpose of the current program was to establish an upward mobility program that afforded employees an opportunity to improve their credibility in job opportunity selection under the directives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Author/RK)

Described the contribution of a preschool treatment program for multiply handicapped children and how the approach may be adopted by others. (Editor/RK)

A general overview of the South Carolina distributive education program is given in this handbook for high school juniors and seniors training for careers in marketing and distribution. Following a brief discussion about the concept of distributive education, the three areas of the program are summarized: (1) the classroom; (2) on-the-job training…

This article classifies traditional drug education approaches into seven styles and two modes. The author is critical of each style, but presents his model for the use of administrators and drug educators. A review is presented of some studies which are critical to the factual approach to drug education. (Author/BW)

Designed to serve as a reference and source of ideas on the use of slides in combination with audiocassettes for presentation design, this book of readings from Audiovisual Instruction magazine includes three papers providing basic tips on putting together a presentation, five articles describing techniques for improving the visual images, five…

THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE RULEG PROGRAM SYSTEM, WHICH IS BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT THE VERBAL STATEMENTS OF A PROGRAM CAN BE CLASSIFIED INTO "RU'S" (RULES) AND "EG'S" (EXAMPLES). ALL RU'S ARE STATEMENTS OF SOME GENERALITY, FROM WHICH SUBSTITUTION INSTANCES, OR EG'S, CAN BE OBTAINED. 12 STEPS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RULEG PROGRAMS ARE…

THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES THE FOLLOWING TOPICS IN CONSTRUCTION OF A PROGRAM, AND GIVES EXAMPLES OF RELEVANT SEQUENCES--DEFINING THE FIELD, REINFORCEMENT, GRADUAL PROGRESSION TO ESTABLISH COMPLEX REPERTOIRES, EMITTED BEHAVIOR AND PROMPTING, FADING AND VANISHING, CONFIRMATION AND SCORING, OBSERVING BEHAVIOR, PRACTICE AND REVIEW, UNDERSTANDING AND…

This booklet is the first in a series of eight that describe the tenth-cycle Lincoln, Nebraska, Teacher Corps Project, located at Goodrich Junior High School under the joint sponsorship of the Lincoln Public Schools and the Teachers College of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The three goals of the competency-based preservice and inservice…

Prior experience with Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs has provided evidence that school districts are implementing supplementary programs funded by Title I which are separate and distinct from the base education programs. The focus of this study is on the relationship between the Title I supplementary programs and the base…