The development of a methodological framework for planning, programming, and budgeting which is specific to graduate training and research activities at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is described. This pilot project is regarded as a step towards developing and implementing a generalized approach to an output-oriented finance…

The purpose of the tenth grade limited pilot project of the 1975-76 Michigan Educational Assessment Program is to perfect instruments, testing, and reporting procedures for a future statewide assessment at the tenth grade level. The development of assessment materials for the grade ten assessment program began with the selection of performance…

This booklet is intended to aid curriculum developers in designing and conducting pilot or field tests that yield useful information and sound evidence about the effectiveness of new curricula. Although it was prepared specifically for use by projects funded by the Curriculum Development Branch of the federal Bureau of Occupational and Adult…

This document discusses the First-Year Teacher Pilot Program, a project designed to judge the impact of an additional year of internship for teachers. Subjects of the study were two groups of 100 first-year teachers. Members of the experimental group were assisted in areas of skills and competencies by university personnel and State Department of…

The United States Office of Education has funded under ESEA V, Section 505, a network of regional projects called the Interstate Projects for State Planning and Program Consolidation since January 1968. The participants in the projects include all 50 state education agencies and the departments of education in U.S. possessions and territories. The…

It is the role of the school to assist the individual toward appropriate educational and occupational experiences. Twenty-five New Jersey high schools endeavored to improve their programs for career development by sponsoring innovative guidance projects. The projects explored and developed guidelines in five areas: (1) Special vocational guidance…

This booklet describes eight University of Washington teacher education projects in operation during the 1969-70 school year to develop and test various performance-based, field-experience approaches and a management system in which the university and cooperating school districts provided for released time for selected school personnel to serve as…

The problems which youth face in the transition from school to work are complex and challenging. Such problems have been conceptualized into a model which relates specific problems to dimensions of self and environment in three developmental stages: (1) pretransitional--the life period before an individual is activated to seeking his first…

The purpose of this pilot study, aside from collection of developmental data on 38 nursery school children aged 2 1/2 to 5 years, was (1) to develop, modify and adapt the testing equipment used in Gesell's Developmental Schedule, in the field of motor, adaptive, language, and personal-social development; (2) to develop elaborate, exhaustive,…

The fourteenth session of Unesco authorized the establishment of an international committee for the advancement of out-of-school education. The first meeting of the committee, held in Paris 18-26 March 1968, took care of election of officers and other procedural matters, established sub-committees on adult education, literacy, and youth…

The Lincoln Parish Family Planning Program, a 1968 pilot study designed in cooperation with the Louisiana State Board of Health, is described. The major purpose of the program was to design a program of medical care for the rural poor which would provide mothers in Lincoln Parish with information and services needed to plan family size. Sections…

The effects of maturational lag and innate perceptual-motor language learning disabilities on primary-grade children's school performance are discussed. Early identification of these learning disabilities is emphasized. A pilot study using 280 second- and third-grade children is described in which the feasibility of whole classroom screening to…

The New York State Library's pilot program in facsimile transmission of library materials (FACTS) began on January 20, 1967 and operated until March 31, 1968. The purpose of the network was to provide researchers throughout the State with rapid access to major library collections. The program included a network of fifteen libraries or "FACTS…

Specific objectives of this phase of a nationwide study of vocational education were: (1) to determine the unit cost for vocational-technical education programs in a unified school district and in junior college district, (2) to determine the problems of data collection and analysis under present practices and legal requirements, and (3) to…

Nineteen Negro children, ages 5 to 5 1/2, were divided into four treatment groups to study the value of feedback to learning. Group I received feedback on correct and incorrect responses on a simple concept identification task. Group II received information only on correct answers. Group III were given the same task as I and II, but received no…