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Green, David; Arends, Richard I. – 1976
PETC-III is one of several instructional systems currently under development in the Improving Teaching Competencies Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The PECT-III materials include training strategies and procedures plus participant instructional materials for use with a select group of educators in a workshop setting.…
Descriptors: Consultants, Educational Objectives, Educational Programs, Evaluation Methods
Macken, E.; And Others – 1976
The report consists of three major sections: a review of the literature on correspondence education in the United States, a report of research at Stanford University on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in the home, and an extensive cross-referenced annotated bibliography. The literature review is organized under six main subsections: enrollment…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correspondence Study, Dropout Research
Hokenson, Earl; And Others – 1976
Research identifying the differences, and the relative importance of those differences, between successful and unsuccessful participants in the Work Incentive (WIN) Program is presented in terms of both successful employment at termination from WIN and employment after WIN participation. Over 800 former and current WIN 1 and 2 participants in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Moseley, Peggy F. – 1974
Summarized is the first year of an intervention program for visually handicapped preschool children in Louisiana in which a curriculum guide was developed, implemented and evaluated with 12 children. It is explained that, in developing the curriculum guide, emphasis was placed on items that would best prepare Ss for mainstreaming in public school…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Guides
Plante, Alexander J. – 1976
A study was made to determine the effectiveness of the Connecticut "pairing" model in improving the school success of Spanish-dominant children classified as low achievers. The study was concerned with whether a carefully designed model of bilingual-bicultural education can improve reading, arithmetic and language arts skills and enhance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Zaleski, Henry F. – 1972
Summarized in this report are the efforts, accomplishments, and recommendations of personnel involved in a pilot program designed to teach educable mentally retarded (EMR) students key punch operation. Participating in the study initially were 18 high school students from Platt and Maloney High Schools. Instruction was given to each group by a…
Descriptors: Career Development, Data Processing Occupations, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs
Bouverat, Roberta, Comp. – 1974
The Education Professions Development Act/Early Childhood Education (EPDA/ECE) Project was a field-centered project to prepare district teacher trainers and students of teaching to effectively meet the special educational needs of young disadvantaged children in rural and semi-rural local educational agencies. The project was designed to have both…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Teachers
McClelland, Samuel D. – 1970
Project Reach, a Federally funded two-year program at the University of Notre Dame, studied three methods of increasing the scope and effectiveness of a local adult basic education (ABE) program in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The methods were: (1) a paraprofessional training program for six former ABE students in still photography, color film…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Communications, Documentaries
Ives, Sumner – 1969
In language instruction, a dependable informational base of fact, experience, or judgment is essential if students are to develop a functional literacy. Yet the language information base in use today--the set of concepts about what language is, how it works, and how individual languages are maintained--has proven inadequate and unreliable. Reform,…
Descriptors: College Role, Culture Lag, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Frankel, Edward – 1968
This report is a follow-up study of the students who participated in a high school grade reorganization plan in the city of New York as a step toward establishment of a four-year comprehensive high school. The evaluation attempts assessment of any long-range effects of this program on disadvantaged high school students in four representative high…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Disadvantaged Youth
Odokara, Elijah O. – 1966
This study aimed (1) to develop a conceptual scheme for viewing adult education in a developing country; (2) to employ the scheme in analyzing the county council-sponsored adult education program in 34 rural communities in Eastern Nigeria; and (3) to make suggestions and recommendations for expanding and strengthening the programs. Using the areas…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum
Pratzner, Frank C.; Hanson, Marjory – 1969
The relative effectiveness of two ways of structuring and presenting 24 clock hours of preservice and initial inservice vocational-industrial teacher education lessons was determined by comparing: (1) an integrated lecture-discussion course presented by qualified vocational-industrial teacher educator, with (2) a packaged course consisting of 16…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Beginning Teachers, Control Groups, Educational Media
Kay, Harry; And Others – 1968
The various devices used in programed instruction range from the simple linear programed book to branching and skip branching programs, adaptive teaching machines, and even complex computer based systems. In order to provide a background for the would-be programer, the essential principles of each of these devices is outlined. Different ideas of…
Descriptors: Branching, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology
Bail, Joe P.; Crunkilton, John R. – 1969
A study was conducted in eight area schools in 12 upstate New York counties to identify the concerns and expectations of personnel having an interest in area vocational schools. A questionnaire was developed, field tested, and mailed to a representative sample of occupational students and their parents, occupational teachers, administrators,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education, Counselor Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations
Collins, Owen – 1974
The first 27 pages of this report summarize the efforts to develop a favorable climate toward career education in the schools of an eight-county area of Kentucky. The area is beset by occupatioanl, housing, educational, and geographical problems. Orientation meetings were held for superintendents and directors, career education coordinators,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Attitudes, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Programs
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