This report presents the results of a year-long pre- and postinstitute evaluation of the 6-week summer workshop for 221 primary grade teachers of disadvantaged children from 41 different New York City schools. The report is organized around the findings obtained from each of nine evaluation instruments and checklists used to measure (1) changes in…

A 9-month pilot evaluation of the developing Special Education Instructional Materials Center (SEIMC) Network utilized two approaches: a process evaluation with site visits to determine the status of activities at the SEIMC's at the universities of Wisconsin and Southern California; and a user survey of 588 mail questionnaires, follow-up…

A foreign language and culture program is advocated in place of the traditional language and literature program in today's schools. The potential importance of television and films in presenting cultural context is stressed, but the poor caliber of existing foreign language television programs in the United States (with a few notable exceptions)…

This study, based on interviews with North American students and Peace Corps trainees in Bogota, and their host families, professors, and other Colombians in contact with the students, attempts to define the non-linguistic barriers to cross-cultural communication between North Americans and Colombians. The purpose of the study is to gather data…

In an effort to better utilize our human resources by providing for all concerned a greater understanding of the college choice process, this study proposed a college choice process model, and analyzed 4 variables. Analysis of data obtained by questionnaire from 3 different schools yielded the following conclusions: (1) students planning to attend…

Case histories evaluate the effectiveness of recent and current retraining programs for unemployed workers under Federal, state, municipal, and union-management auspices, judging them by their success in placing workers in useful employment in distressed economic areas. Data on various aspects of retraining programs under a wide variety of…

A directory of federal and state programs to help the handicapped find employment, this booklet also describes programs for the able-bodied. Contents included are (1) programs for people who need additional education, rehabilitation, or training before they can get a job, (2) programs for those who need a job and for communities that need to…

THIS STUDY EXAMINED THE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT EX-TRAINEES, THE SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGES THAT OCCURRED AFTER TRAINING, THE LONG- AND SHORT-RANGE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SERVICES RECEIVED UNDER THE MDTA PROGRAM, AND HOW THESE MAY BE IMPROVED. FOR APPROXIMATELY 500 PERSONS WHO COMPLETED AN MDTA…

All training materials prepared by the New Jersey Community Action Training Institute are briefly described in five sections of this catalogue. Sections are--training packages (syllabuses, curriculums, and schedules of each Institute training program, some with evaluations), training handbook, booklets, and brochures, case studies, discussion…

A survey of program administrators, interviews with program personnel and State employment service officers, and a research review were conducted to develop guidelines for meeting the occupational and training needs of undereducated adults. Data from programs in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia,…

The vocational education leadership behavior of graduates from an 8-week summer workshop who completed a year-long internship was observed to evaluate the training program and to develop an objective formula for selection of personnel for effective leadership roles. The 71 graduates for the school years 1964-67 were compared with the 48 member…

A study of bilingual elementary schooling made at a 1968 summer bilingual institute held at the University of Texas includes an extensive introduction covering basic principles, definitions, misconceptions, bilingualism in the United States and abroad, variations in program design, and suggested program guidelines. The body of the document is…

Questionnaires sent to participants and their principals were used to evaluate the academic year institute programs attended by 572 secondary teachers of science and mathematics at selected Southeastern universities. Some 348 participants responded. Of these 148 were no longer teaching at the secondary level. More than two-thirds of the…

This manual attempts to "present the basic information that the teacher-leader must know for an inter-ethnic classroom." It is the author's thesis that "the most urgent of all educational challenges is not curriculum or instruction. It is the challenge of changing sociocultural relations, while simultaneously improving curriculum and instruction."…

Intended primarily for officers responsible for organizing and conducting training for civil servants in developing countries but useful also in highly industrialized nations, this handbook discusses the principal kinds of training institutions, their missions and functions, and their internal organization and operational problems. It draws on the…