Prior to a study to determine the degree to which vocational training is related to employability, a pilot project was conducted to test the proposed research method and determine the bias that might arise from using samples taken from the telephone directory. The selected pilot sample, 835 residences in Hennepin County, Minnesota, was drawn from…

The Minford Schools received funds under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for a pilot program in elementary counseling. In the school area, there was a high concentration of families receiving aid to dependent children (ADC), a high dropout rate, high teacher turnover, and traditional faculty orientation. Student awareness…

The influence of stimulated recall and emotional simulation films on client growth in short-term personal counseling was evaluated at Michigan State University with nine clients from vocational rehabilitation caseloads. The two experimental groups (stimulated recall and simulated film treatment) and one control group with traditional counseling…

The document is comprised of (1) a series of reports evaluating a SUTOE (Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration) career education pilot project conducted in an Oregon City (Oregon) junior high school and (2) sample curriculum guides from that project. A brief project overview, emphasizing the interdisciplinary, team approach employed,…

The Pennsylvania State Department of Education developed an automated system in 1970 to facilitate meeting report requirements to the United States Office of Education. This system provides for computer processing of such information as labor market needs in planning vocational programs, standards for these programs, graduate followup, demographic…

The methodology is reviewed and recommendations offered regarding alternative administrative structures. A more systematic study of the literature is advocated, along with the establishment of a reference group of administrators to act as advisors to the research team. The research must be focused on more than one department. The systems approach…

Initial objectives of this pilot study were to: define the effectiveness and structure of administration in institutions of higher education; explore and identify measures of administrative effectiveness and structure; test the practicability of such definitions and measures against on-going processes at Sussex University; direct, coordinate, and…

Results are presented of an onsite review of data gathered in 1971 by the Consolidated Program Information Report (CPIR), a survey instrument designed to fill the data needs of the Office of Education and state education agencies in relation to federally funded elementary and secondary education programs. This validation and error analysis of CPIR…

The document describes an exemplary project from January 1, 1973 to December 31, 1974 in which 21 postsecondary cook/chef students were afforded the opportunity to spend six months in a training experience in Switzerland. The project, coordinated through the Swiss Hotel Association, was intended to provide a basis for sharing information with the…

Instructional Management System (IMS) information cycles from participating schools to the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) for processing, returning again to the school in the form of summarized reports of pupil data. One segment of this cycle is managed by the IMS pupil data base processing program. The program generates reports from…

This report summarizes the characteristics of the teachers participating in the Social Learning Curriculum. Characteristics covered here are teacher age, sex, years of teaching experience, educational background, and the type and amount of supervision, with each item broken down into several subcategories for frequency counting. The data are…

This report summarizes the characteristics of the students participating in the Social Learning Curriculum. The information on these educable mentally retarded students includes: sex, age, IQ, tests upon which intelligence estimates are based, year of test administration, physical or emotional handicaps, and the number of children considered…

This project was funded under ESEA Title III and four subcontracts with Research for Better Schools. The Title III aspect of the project focused on curriculum change in the fields of language arts, social sciences, and teacher training. Complete reports on each of the following have been included: 1) the Social Studies Pilot Programs as described…

The Vocabulary Development Project (VDP) was a pilot study designed to demonstrate that significant improvement in language skills is possible with a sustained, massive program of vocabulary exercises. The subjects were inner-city fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. As this project was not a full-blown experimental study, a control…

This report was designed mainly as an aid to developing staff training for field personnel engaged in social or economic development, particularly as this may relate to disadvantaged areas. In one aspect, it is a descriptive report of the findings and experiences of a pilot-training project carried out from the fall of 1967 to the fall of 1969 by…