A three-year project investigated the use of closed circuit television (CCTV) in four Australian secondary schools. Particular attention was paid to the ability of CCTV to make classroom teaching more effective and individualized and to promote team teaching. CCTV equipment, including a mobile production unit, was made available and teachers…

A total of 107 students from a comprehensive vocational facility, a community college, and high school day and night classes participated in a 6-week pilot project to test curriculum materials and implement an instructional method consisting of nine audiovisual instructional packets on management supplemented by correspondence with a master…

This report contains summaries of mental health training projects conducted under grants awarded by the Experimental and Special Training Branch of the Division of Manpower and Training Programs. The projects have been developed in both academic and non-academic settings for professional, subprofessional, and nonprofessional training for a variety…

Objectives of the Migrant Research Project, a pilot study funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, were to obtain needed data about the migrant worker population and to develop instruments and research techniques for future studies. Thus, interviews were conducted with over 13,000 migrant families (representing almost 80,000 individuals) and…

A 4-year follow-up study of children in the Rural Child Care Project has shown that greatest losses in intellectual functioning for former project children occurred in the first year of public school among those scoring above 80 on their first Binet but who were retained in grade 1. IQ change during grade 1 was negatively related to attendance at…

Communi-Link was designed to assist communities and states in planning and implementing comprehensive adult education and community improvement programs. The Communi-Link process encouraged the development and/or enhancement of "communication linkages" necessary for communities to assess problems, identify resources, and mobilize…

The problems now confronting public education in the cities represent some of the major reasons for advocating the voucher system. This report identifies many of these problems, examines the concept of educational vouchers, and raises some policy and research issues that should be considered before such a system is tried. The author outlines a…

In 1970, boarding school enrollments were leveling off and inflationary tremors beginning to register in the financial seismographs of most schools. Recently, the school survival issue has begun to emerge as a subject for serious open debate and private speculation. This handbook advances the ideas that for shortrun survival, many schools will…

An instructional game is presented. The instructional goal of the game was to help the learner, one of the players, understand and use seven different prepositions with which, on the basis of a pretest, he was unfamiliar. The game was arranged so that instruction would occur simply as a result of communication to the learner from his partner who,…

To provide a new source of manpower for Pennsylvania mental health facilities, a pilot associate degree program for the training of middle-level mental health workers was instituted at the Community College of Philadelphia. Specific objectives were: (1) to test the program's feasibility, (2) to identify skills and attributes required of an…

To develop skills and understanding of interdisciplinary teamwork, the University of Miami's Department of Family Medicine and the School of Nursing conducted a project involving 10 teams of medical, nursing, and social work students. The primary objectives of the project were: (1) to instill and maintain positive attitudes in student physicians,…

This report is one of a series presenting the results of studies of NDEA Title XI and Arts and Humanities Foundation institute programs and selected institute-associated activities conducted in 1966. During the summer of 1966 five pilot Institutes in Civics were funded by the Office of Education. The purpose was to utilize the initial experience…

THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER WAS EVALUATED. INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT ARE DETAILED DISCUSSIONS OF (1) THE PHYSICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN OF THE RESOURCE CENTER, (2) A TIMETABLE FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTER, (3) PLANS FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, (4) PLANS FOR DEMONSTRATION OF SYSTEMS TO BE DEVELOPED…

A SEMINAR WAS HELD TO PROVIDE STATE LEADERS IN HOME ECONOMICS WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF HOME ECONOMICS PROGRAMS OF OCCUPATIONAL PREPARATION. PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED DIRECTORS OF AREA VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, TEACHER EDUCATORS, DEANS OF SCHOOLS OF HOME ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SPECIALISTS, STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT…

Studies conducted by the University of Tulsa, Arizona State University, Utah State University, and the Indian Health Service have indicated a high incidence of handicapping conditions among the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) student population. Of the approximately 50,000 students in the nearly 200 BIA schools, some 19,000 have been estimated to…