This 5-year study evaluates the first diploma nursing program in Canada within an educational institution, that of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. Various factors affecting student and Ryerson graduates performance are studied to answer two questions: (1) What type of nurse is being prepared through the Ryerson nursing program, and (2)…

The Production Workshop Project was designed to promote the educational rehabilitation of selected ninth-grade students. Programs in block-scheduled academic instruction were integrated with vocational training in a Production Workshop setting. The 1971-72 Project activities served a total of 243 students--117 boys and 126 girls. Approximately 68…

To assess the effectiveness of a 3-month inservice program in vocational education for high school counselors, data were gathered from 60 non-college bound students (experimental group) whose counselors participated in the 3-month program and 60 non-college bound students (Control group) whose counselors did not participate in the program. Pre-…

Guidance for leaders of a volunteer group working to combat adult illiteracy in a given community is provided in practical detail. In Chapter 1, Problems of Illiteracy, the results of an interview poll with a sample population of Americans 16 years of age and older show that there are 21,000,000 adults in the United States whose skills are not…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a five-week program in affective education with emphasis on facilitating the integration of a large proportion of new students into a school. Specifically, the program was designed to: (1) reduce intergroup prejudice by modifying in a positive direction attitudes toward self and…

From the Fall of 1971 to Spring of 1972, the evaluation staff from Component V cooperated with the district research staff in collecting data for a product report determining how well the desegregation in San Francisco elementary schools was succeeding. The product evaluation strategy for this ESAP report is based on the Western Regional…

The study, based on L. Cronbach's Characteristics by Treatment Interaction model, investigated seven preschool programs for aurally handicapped children which variously employed the oral-aural method, the Rochester method, or the total communication method. Equipment, materials, grouping procedures, and activities were indicated for each program.…

An assessment of the Exemplary Program for Occupational Preparation (EPOP), this report addresses itself to an identification of the project's present status, and outlines goals and objectives toward which project efforts should be directed during the final operational year. Comprehensive in scope, the program involved students at the elementary,…

This book proposes the approach that, regardless of the present turmoil, regardless of technology and other social considerations, there is a fundamental inequity in the availability of cultural, recreational, and leisure experience that men of goodwill abhor. Seeing beyond hostile rhetoric, the book seeks to search out the foundations within the…

Each academic year since its inception in 1965, the Higher Horizons 100 (HH100) program has provided a remedial language and intensive counseling program to 100 disadvantaged ninth-grade students. The goal of the program is to improve the language skills, self-concept, and school adjustment of disadvantaged students having no serious emotional…

This history of the development of the Comprehensive Career Education (School Based) Model (CCEM), includes historical antecedents of the project, early organizational activities, major conceptual focuses, and current efforts. In June 1971 the Center for Vocational and Technical Education (CVTE) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio was…

Both measurable and unmeasurable institutional objectives of Mount San Jacinto College for the year 1972-73 are provided in this report. The Currently Unmeasurable Objectives, Section I of the report, are presented in a two-column format: (1) Currently Unmeasurable Objectives, and (2) How The Students Will Be Helped to Achieve These Objectives.…

A manual for assessing the effectiveness of a secondary school, taking differences in the school's resources into account, is presented. The Pennsylvania State Board of Education established the Bureau of Educational Quality Assessment which developed a measurement package in Phase I. Field tests were conducted on grade 11 students in 1968 in 100…

This report compares several educational programs for non-English-speaking students in Toronto, Canada. The Main Street program, initiated in 1965, is a full-time program of "cultural immersion" for students 12 years of age and older. The Givens Public School presented a similar program at the same time within a regular school. This…

These analyses are part of an effort to develop a method of showing accountability for the educational responsibilities of the school system to the children of Atlanta, Georgia. The evaluations focus on the rationale of ongoing programs, pupil needs, program goals, behavioral objectives, management and control, cost effectiveness, and…