This module is aimed toward those teachers and guidance personnel in school settings, grades K-12, or participants in preservice training programs, who are interested in developing an understanding of (1) the importance of teaching students skills in career decision making and (2) the types of activities and resources which can be used to teach…

This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Imaging Futuristic Career Guidance Programs. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is given in the accompanying module, but…

The problem of developing and evaluating a personalized, competency-based modular instructional strategy was chosen to offer an alternative to the traditional lecture method in a laboratory food and nutrition course at the university level. The content of the course was divided into modules with competency-based objectives. Students passing the…

This manual contains 24 self-study modules for basic laboratory procedures for the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) laboratory analyses. Areas of study include safety, identification of equipment, handling solids and liquids, use of balances, and care and use of equipment. Evaluation tests and answers are provided for each…

Business ownership training materials appropriate for uses in vocational education settings with women clients were developed and tested. A survey of California women business owners was made to identify the characteristics and needs of women entrepreneurs. A series of eight self-paced, student-centered Learning Activities Packages (LAP's) was…

This guide was developed to help instructors teach the course for women entrepreneurs as presented in the text, "How to Start Your Own Business." (This small business management course, a product of the California Women Entrepreneurs Project, and the final project report are contained in two related documents--CE 017 320 and 322.) The…

This module on promoting vocational education and recruiting eligible students for vocational programs is one of a set of seven on vocational students and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business,…

This instructional package is one of two designed for low reader students (those reading at grade level 3-6) in the vocational area of building maintenance and engineering. The forty-four learning modules are organized into eleven units: chalkboards; carpet care; office cleaning; grounds; sanitation; boiler maintenance and operation; power and…

This instructional package designed for visually impaired students, focuses on the vocational area of small engine repair. Contained in this document are forty learning modules organized into fourteen units: engine block; starters; fuel tank, lines, filters and pumps; carburetors; electrical; test equipment; motorcycle; machining; tune-ups; short…

This booklet presents information to be used by the driver education teacher in conjunction with "A Resource Curriculum in Driver and Traffic Safety Education" (ED 059 372). A learning module is described followed by instructions on how to use the module in criterion-referenced driver education programs and on how to prepare a module. Six sample…

Intended to be used by secretarial science students in a single skills laboratory, this operations manual for a dictaphone cassette contains step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams designed to be easily understood by students. (Two other learning modules designed for student use in a single skills laboratory and a report on the development…

The study investigated the effectiveness of a flexible modular system for teaching composition. It was hypothesized that measures of compositional ability would significantly favor students in the experimental course, and students in the experimental course would register significantly higher in affective measures of interest and involvement. The…

This module provides readers a broad view of the development of music and the plastic arts in Puerto Rico. At the same time, the module includes the names of Puerto Ricans who have found distinction in these fields of endeavor. A preassessment test, learning alternatives, postassessment test, and various narratives concerned with the theme of the…

The intent of this teaching module is to present structural word analysis information to participants so they can be effective teachers of reading. The module attempts to prepare participants to develop and utilize teacher-prepared materials dealing with structural analysis. Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to (a)…

This module provides evaluation guidelines for choosing reading materials, and practical training in designing materials for teaching reading in Spanish. Upon completion of the module, participants should be able to (a) list 10 criteria that are used to evaluate books and materials in the teaching of reading in Spanish, and be able to use them in…