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Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. – 1980
In order to provide entry-level students with an opportunity to explore career interests while receiving college credit, Johnson County Community College implemented a pilot course in Fall 1979 incorporating an emphasis on career decision-making in an English composition course. The course, which had an enrollment of 49 students in two sections,…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, Outcomes of Education
Banathy, Bela H.; And Others – 1977
Conducted at the request of the Boy Scouts of America and part of a larger project funded by the U. S. Office of Education to assess the place of career education in the total Scouting program, a study explored ways to strengthen collaboration between Scouting and schools for the purpose of improving and extending the career education programs of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
WEAVER, JOHN B.; WOLLERSHEIM, JANET P. – 1963
TO DETERMINE THE MOST EFFICIENT USES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SPEECH CORRECTIONIST'S SKILLS AND TIME, A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INTERMITTENT SYSTEM AND THE BLOCK SYSTEM OF SCHEDULING SPEECH CASES. WITH THE INTERMITTENT SYSTEM THE CORRECTIONIST IS ASSIGNED TO A NUMBER OF SCHOOLS AND GENERALLY SEES CHILDREN TWICE A…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Articulation (Speech), Exceptional Child Research, Pilot Projects
Tung, Cao Thanh – Instructional Technology Report, 1974
Cao Thanh Tung reports on a one month Seminar/Workshop on Planning for the Use of Educational Broadcast Media for National Development, which was sponsored by UNESCO and held in South Viet Nam in June 1974. The seminar placed emphasis on the importance of integrating educational media technology into programs for educational change, rather than…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Community Action, Community Development, Developing Nations
Doraiswami, S. – 1974
Traditional adult education has been literacy-oriented, but the curriculum content and methodology has been inadequate in maintaining motivation and interest. An important effort to eradicate these problems has been the Farmer's Functional Literacy Program in India. This major project relates adult education and training in modern agricultural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis. – 1974
The report describes the organizational phase of a project designed to create program models and supporting literature for exploratory industrial career development programs for grades seven to ten. The project was undertaken by Oregon State University in cooperation with the Oregon State Department of Education and involved the formation of a…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Career Exploration, Curriculum, Demonstration Programs
Cashman, John R.; Mattson, Robert E. – 1974
The report describes a Vermont project begun in 1970 and designed to assess the long term value of the Special Work Project (SWP), or Public Service Employment, as a vehicle for providing transitional employment to unemployed members of low income families with children receiving public aid. The study attempted to contact and interview the 609…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Followup Studies
Klauser, Dorothy – 1975
The "9 to 90" Saturday Reading Program sponsored by the Fullerton (California) College Department of Community Services offers individualized reading improvement in hourly sections on Saturday mornings to anyone from ages nine to ninety. Groups of nine to fifteen students meet each hour with teaching teams of three instructors. The groups are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developmental Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Gallagher, Margaret; Marshall, J. – 1975
The Open University of Great Britain relies heavily on broadcasting as a mode of instruction, but increased course offerings are making it impossible to broadcast each lesson more than once. To reach students unable to view the original broadcast, video cassette reorder systems were tested in six community study centers as part of a 1974 pilot…
Descriptors: College Students, Delivery Systems, Educational Television, External Degree Programs
Cooney, Ellen Ward – 1975
This paper reports on the development, evaluation and implications of a primary grade social development curriculum based on structural, developmental, and social perspective taking theory. The curriculum was used in a preliminary pilot study and in a formal 8-week intervention program with 14 second and third grade classes. The social…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Experimental Curriculum
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1975
A driver education task analysis was completed and instructional material was developed under a different contract but in conjunction with this and a companion project. Different editions of a teacher's guide were written for secondary schools and driving schools. The former was disseminated through workshops for college and university…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Community Colleges, Course Content
Vose, George D. – 1974
The report covers a project in the Bangor junior high schools running from the first week in October 1973 to the last week in April 1974. The study sought to find a way to upgrade the career guidance program at the junior high level with little cost in counselor time. Three junior high schools supplied the ninth grade students to be used for…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Classroom Guidance Programs, Comparative Analysis, Grade 9
Gaddy, Dale – 1971
Five pilot studies were conducted at four two-year colleges in the Washington, D.C. area during the 1970-71 academic year to identify relevant variables for subsequent in-depth examination in this USOE-funded research project which is designed to determine student acceptance and learning effectiveness of microform. Known as Phase II, the year's…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Students, Community Colleges, Courses
Portal-Foster, C. W.; And Others – 1969
The proposed research design, to be actualized beginning in 1969, was evolved to determine the nature and prevalence of mental retardation in Canada and to relate them to other variables. Issues raised concerning both nature and prevalence were reviewed as were surveys in seven different geographic areas. A pilot study conducted in two small…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Demography, Disadvantaged, Etiology
Eastern Wyoming Coll., Torrington. – 1969
Undertaken by Eastern Wyoming College, this pilot program of adult basic counseling and testing sought to stimulate the enrollment of school dropouts in adult basic education courses, help enrollees discover their vocational interests and capabilities, and aid them in their personal and social adjustment. A full-time counselor took charge of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling
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