A working party studied existing arrangements in Britain for on the job training of overseas nationals, assessed contributions being made to British Export trade, compared the schemes with those in other countries, and recommended various changes. Questionnaire responses came from 266 firms representing seven centrally organized training schemes.…

Research was conducted on reactions of North Carolina public health workers to the telecasts, study manuals, and group discussion sessions used for seven programs (Introduction, Group Discussion, Communication, Cooperation, Culture and Public Health, Our Public Image, and Questions and Answers, respectively) in the interpersonal relations series…

The topic of the West Tennessee Adult Basic Education Workshop, held at Jackson, Tennessee in April, 1970, was the selection of adult basic education materials; 89 persons (teachers and supervisors) attended. This report contains an edited form of the presentation and the results of the evaluation. A profile of the adult basic education population…

One of 6 state reports prepared in cooperation with the Regional Curriculum Project, the document discusses 4 major educational programs conducted in North Carolina since 1965. "The Story of Merger and Educational Change in Moore County" is a report relating to school redistricting; "The Mathematics Project in Greensboro"…

The major thrust of this program was the establishment of Quality Incentive Grants for urban school districts with a high concentration of disadvantaged youth qualifying under the provisions of ESEA Title I. Two new units, the Office of Urban Education and the Bureau of Urban Programs Evaluation, were established within the State Department of…

This research report is concerned with paraprofessional training, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for poverty adults. The following questions represent the objectives and purposes of the research effort: enrollees' mobility orientations, and how these orientations have changed; how the role sets of enrollees influence their effectiveness in social…

This report of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III, summarizes the adult education needs of the Fresno City Unified School District. Curriculum areas of educational need included: (1) literacy and basic education, (2) education for civic responsibility, (3) cultural appreciation and participation, (4) parent and family life education, (5)…

Initiated in 1964, the Illnois gifted program provided funds for development of local gifted programs by local districts. General purposes and criteria for individual programs were realized with varying success. Gifted programs increased and were extended to less wealthy and smaller districts; techniques and inservice education spilled over into…

This report is based on three separate evaluative surveys. The first compares students' attitudes and opinions before and after the junior year abroad in several areas: (1) attitude toward Germany; (2) integration patterns; (3) religion; (4) politics; (5) the use of tobacco and alcohol, and sexual morality; (6) culture; (7) comparison of…

This fiscal year 1969 report presents new developments affecting training in the Federal service, followed by training data and analyses, and a statistical review. Part 1 reviews new policy, training for supervisors and executives, service to the undereducated and other special employee groups, and two court decisions. Part 2 indicates variance in…

The report gives the background on the association of these states in an international education effort directed at Central American nations. The basic objectives of the project are: 1) to develop school-to-school projects in the United States and abroad involving 2 to 3 year exchange of teachers, pupils, curriculum materials, and ideas for…

This study was designed to (1) determine whether prospective English teachers who had taken a course in literary criticism differed significantly from those who had not, and (2) discover what books on critical theory students had read and whether a relationship existed between number of books read and scores on a literary criticism test. A test…

To identify the characteristics of students in the four technical agriculture programs in Ohio and to determine the association between selected student characteristics, success in the program, and later success in the world of work, data were collected from the cumulative records of 246 students, a student survey of current enrollment, 70…

An alphabetical directory is presented of continuing education opportunities for ministers as offered by 111 seminaries, councils of churches, and other agencies in the United States, Canada, and several overseas countries. Doctrinal theology, pastoral counseling, behavioral sciences, social ethics, worship, community action, and 12 other subject…

The four purposes of this study were (1) to test the long-range effects of classification training (CT) on disadvantaged black children, (2) to evaluate the effects of reintroducing CT to those previously trained, (3) to compare CT at two age periods (5 and 6 years old), and (4) to compare CT with attention training (AT). Of the 69 children used…