Designed to provide information on how educational institutions and government agencies are implementing new information technologies (NITs), this report combines an in-depth case study of 25 U.S. educational institutions (school districts, colleges, and universities) with an international study of exemplary educational programs in nine countries.…

This publication can be used as: a guide for improving, expanding, and balancing the existing energy and resource conservation education program; a resource for planning appropriate inservice education activities in energy and resource conservation education for school district personnel; and a source of information for locating high quality…

This guide for adult educators provides a general model for establishing and maintaining Adult Basic Education (ABE)-in-Industry programs. The model encompasses eight components, including the industry program and ABE program. The handbook, however, skips the two programs and begins with the industry and ABE agreement component, devoting a chapter…

The purpose of the Rural Library Training Project was to design, implement, and evaluate a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural libraries in Alberta, Canada. This Phase Four Summative Report describes project activities carried out from April 1, 1986 through June 30, 1987. These activities included the completion of the field test, the…

Provided as a framework for use in curriculum development are Arkansas' course content guides for the intermediate elementary grades four, five, and six. At each grade level, language arts, mathematics, reading, social studies, and science skills have been identified at three instructional levels: basic, developmental, and extensional. Basic…

Designed as a forum for views on issues concerning the humanities in two-year colleges, this journal begins with "A Call for Common Learning," in which Ernest Boyer discusses the goals of education and outlines six themes which students should study to understand themselves, their society, and the world in which they live. Responding to…

The philosophy, background, objectives, and offerings of Skyline College's Older Adult Program (SOAP) are described in this report. After stressing Skyline's commitment to lifelong learning, the report provides background to SOAP's development. This section explains how Skyline's Senior Citizen Advisory Committee was established to provide…

Based on the idea that the goal of English instruction is to develop language skills that will assist each student in his or her search for identity, in relationships with other people, and in becoming a proficient and sensitive human being, this curriculum guide is divided into two major sections, grades 7 through 9 and grades 10 through 12. In…

Previous research has suggested that extrinsic rewards operate to decrease intrinsic motivation to perform a task when they are offered for an initially intrinsically motivating task and then removed. To determine the initial intrinsic motivation of studying, 170 Canadian community college students were divided into one control and four treatment…

The core curriculum at Saint Joseph's College is described, along with the revision of the general education program during 1966-1969. The core program, which is integrative in structure, was adopted because it provided a means to achieve the goals of the institution, a Catholic liberal arts college. The change to the core curriculum required…

This document provides a model for assessing a school's mathematics program and planning for program improvement. A systematic process for instructional improvement focuses upon students' needs and the identification of successful instructional strategies to meet these needs. The improvement plan and the implementation of intervention strategies…

Canadian participation in the Second International Science Study (SISS) has both international and national aims. The international aims are identical with those of SISS and call for a description of science education policy and practice, student achievement testing, and the analysis of students' and teachers' attitudes to science and science…

In 1980, the Oklahoma legislature passed House Bill 1706, which focused upon four major concepts: (1) strengthening screening requirements for admission; (2) testing teachers in their curriculum field; (3) development of an entry-year assistance program for beginning teachers; and (4) staff development programs in all school districts. The Central…

The third phase of a three-cycle evaluation process designed for the Primary Education Program (PREP) of the Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa, Florida) was undertaken by evaluation teams in April 1981. Evaluation involved different data collection techniques. First, interviews with principals and curriculum intervention specialists at…

This pamphlet is intended to aid Iowa school district curriculum committees in developing and implementing the physical education component of their school district's multicultural nonsexist educational plan. Definitions of terms used in the pamphlet are given. The rationale and philosophy underlying the elementary and secondary curricula design…