The Statewide Measures Inventory is essentially a list of items of information, along with concise definitions and other information of interest, relevant to statewide postsecondary education planning and management. It has been designated primarily as a working document for use by state-level postsecondary education planners and decision makers…

The purpose of this study was to assess the present state of building systems, to analyze projects currently being developed, and to predict future advances in systems. "Building system" is used to designate a minimum of three major subsystems designed to fit and function together without the necessity of onsite cutting or other extensive…

This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity investigates the development of compass skills, map skills, and orienteering. It employs the educational-games approach. Given specific exercises and instructions, students become…

This booklet offers practical suggestions for implementing and planning social studies programs in the open classroom. Emphasis is on helping students become active and involved learners in an environment in which the concept of education is viewed as a social experience. An introductory chapter cautions the teacher to carefully consider the goals…

Experienced-Based Career Education (EBCE) is an approach to the problems of youth in relation to career awareness and preparation. EBCE is based on the rationale that exposure to work environments reinforces the acquisition of academic skills and is more effective than traditional classroom approaches. Research for Better Schools, Inc. has…

The publication is intended to provide some guidance to educators who are in the process of developing career education units which will be integrated into and correlated with school subjects. The first part of the document focuses on developing resource units, and offers information on goals and objectives, on the integration of career education…

Developed by the Chicago public schools in coordination with State and local departments of vocational education, the document is the first in a series of three curriculum guides. Intended for use at the primary school level, its aim is to provide two types of guidance services: counseling for self-understanding and personal development, and a…

The guide is part of a set of materials designed to provide educators with activities infusing career education concepts into existing curriculum on the K-6 grade level. The first section provides a perspective of career education, and the second contains detailed methods and procedures necessary for the implementation of the underlying concept…

The fifth grade instructional unit is part of a field tested grade school level career education series, designed to assist learners in understanding how present experiences relate to past and future ones. Before the main body of the lessons is described, key items are presented: the concepts, the estimated time for delivering the lessons, the…

The guide, developed as part of an exemplary program for junior high school students, contains lesson plans, independent study guides, and resource lists for junior high school home economics classes. One page describes the seventh grade unit which consists of an in-class presentation by the director of a nurses aid volunteer program. Nine pages…

This handbook is intended as a guide for community college administrators in setting up human services programs. (Human services programs refer here to training programs for paraprofessionals involved in helping people.) Data were gathered from 176 two-year colleges regarding the human services curricula offered in 1970-71. In Part I, the survey…

The report on child care services at M.I.T. explores the following areas: (1) Planning Issues: Why Should M.I.T. Be Involved in Child Care?--educational concerns, services, benefits and costs, priorities, resource allocation; (2) Background for Planning; Current Institute Child Care Programs--a concise history, M.I.T. summer day camp, the…

The purpose, organization, and functions of research and evaluation in a large urban school district are discussed in light of several major issues in educational evaluation. Major issues include methods of assuring the credibility of evaluation information, the establishment and maintenance of meaningful reporting cycles, the recruitment and…

The evaluation report is one of seven produced for the Occupational Exploration Program (OEP), a series of simulated occupational experiences designed for junior high school students. Describing the pilot testing of the simulation dealing with education, the report contains sections describing the simulation context, evaluation procedures,…

The curriculum guide is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in students at all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible careers; and to analyze and relate these roles to their present…