This final four-part report describes and evaluates the Vocational Adult Secondary Training Project (VAST) whose goals were to revise and develop: adult basic education curriculum in the areas of mathematics, communications, and science; individualized instruction with clearly defined objectives; a methodology for pretesting and selection of…

Volume 1 of the report describes the Reporting and Evaluation System for Occupational Education (RESOE) in evaluating the effectiveness of occupational program offereings, and in basing program planning and funding decisions on such evaluation. A brief introduction is followed by an outline of the requirements for reporting and evaluating…

The manuscript is a draft written in nontechnical terms, for the purpose of acquainting local and regional occupational administrators with RESOE's functional specifications and basic design concepts. Following a brief introduction is a description of what RESOE does, covering: evaluation of occupational programs; program monitoring and…

The final report describes the work performed by Riverside Research Institute (RRI) for the New York State Education Department in regard to the Reporting and Evaluation System for Occupational Education (RESOE). A brief introduction is followed by a section dealing with RESOE's design, development, and operation, and including general discussions…

Evaluation questionnaires were administered to more than 92 percent of the professional staff associated with the Knox County Extended School Year (ESY) Program during the summer and fall of 1974 and to more than half of the students enrolled in the summer quinmester, along with a random sample of 10 percent of the students enrolled in October…

Progress during the first year of program implementation of the American Indian Education Act of 1972 (IEA) is reported via narrative and tabular data relative to the following: (1) distribution of Indian pupils by State; (2) distribution of IEA funds in 1973 by State; (3) relation between size of grant and number of Indians with the recipient…

The application of behavior modification procedures by Head Start teachers in the classroom and the remedial application of programmed instructions to children with preacademic deficiencies were studied in 11 classrooms located in three Kansas towns--Lawrence, Topeka, and Kansas City. Data were collected throughout the 1968-1969 year on both the…

A criterion-referenced instrument, Inventory of Cognitive Skills and Visual-Motor Functioning, was devised to evaluate a prekindergarten program for economically disadvantaged 4-year-olds. The Inventory, administered to each child at the beginning and end of the preschool experience, provided specific information in: (1) knowledge of body parts,…

Since 1970, the developmental mathematics program at the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) has consisted of three courses of individualized instruction. A pretest is given to determine proper course placement and all modular units are accompanied by regular lectures. This practicum was designed to determine the attitudes,…

This report presents the development, organization and evaluation of a six week bilingual preschool program for Latin American children, designed specifically to help prepare them for kindergarten. The general goals of the program were: (1) to provide the children with a pleasant environment in which they could learn appropriate school behavior,…

The third-year report of the regional staff development system of the Adult Competency Training Project (Project ACT) examines and evaluates the events, activities, and accomplishments of Individualized Training Programs (ITP), regional policy board meetings, staff and participant travel, and planning during FY 1974. Present and anticipated…

The annotated bibliography provides abstracts of 36 research reports, bibliographies, seminar proceedings, collections of abstracts, and of six journal articles, all published since 1965, dealing with the various aspects of vocational education administration at the local level. The citations listed were selected from the printout of a…

Described is a multidisciplinary team approach to helping elementary and secondary students with learning or emotional problems to achieve educationally and socially. Resource room teachers and special education consultants, functioning as part of the full-time team in each school, work with the regular classroom teacher to meet student needs for…

The document describes the implementation of the Illinois Occupational Education Administration project, an effort to refine a delivery system for imparting 159 identified competencies known to be essential to the successful work of Occupational Education administrators. The overall objective of the training phase was to recruit, train, obtain…

This symposium focuses on the development and uses of a comprehensive evaluation system within a long-term research and development project in primary education. Issues and problems associated with this development over the past four years are discussed. These issues and problems include: (1) eudcational accountability; (2) parent participation,…