The nature of society, technology, and education is related to the future and there is a need to explore the implications that each has upon industrial arts education. The incredible advanced technologies that have affected society are starting to affect education and are sure to change many characteristics of industrial arts education. As…

This teaching guide provides secondary and postsecondary business teachers with ideas for teaching typewriting and evaluating students. Content is presented in seven sections. The first section discusses learning principles as they relate to psychomotor skill development including, stimulus-response, association, knowledge of results, temporal…

A comprehensive overview of major issues involved in educating the public about health, with emphasis on methods and approaches designed to foster community participation in health planning, is presented in this guide. It is intended to provide ideas for those engaged in health education program development with ideas for use in planning,…

A research study at Pasadena City College in 1975-76 evaluated a computer based career guidance program, SIGI (System of Interactive Guidance and Information), designed by Educational Testing Service to assist community college students in improving their ability to make career decisions. Students identified as desiring aid in career guidance were…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for preschool and kindergarten students. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists. Major objectives of this program are to help children assume responsibility and build self-confidence. After a brief…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for the first grade. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to aid teachers in instilling responsibility and self-confidence in children. The guide presents topics and directions for 180 sequential…

This guide is designed for college students interested in developing their interpersonal skills through an experiential learning program. Experiential learning is defined as learning--either prior or sponsored--which takes place outside the classroom. Guidelines for developing objectives, planning the learning activities, and preparing for…

A model for assessing and awarding credit for prior experiential learning is presented; the adult student's experiences are summarized in a portfolio. The model incorporates eight stages: facilitating the construction and assessment of a portfolio, identifying significant prior experiences, expressing the learning outcomes of prior experiences,…

This student guide is directed at the adult student who petitions for college credits based on prior experiential learning. It will assist such adults in maximizing the value of their prior experiences in relation to educational goals and successfully obtaining appropriate credit. The reader is led step by step through the process of identifying…

Evaluation of prior learning for the External Degree Program at Florida International University is described. Efforts in the following areas are presented: (1) implementation and evaluation of the competency-based assessment tool, (2) integration of the assessment process with other processes of the External Degree Program and the entire…

This guide is organized into three parts. Parts A and B contain bibliographic citations and brief annotations; Part C is an alphabetical listing of all references. Topics included in Part A are: the rationale and history of experiential learning, types of programs, program planning and implementation, program evaluation and quality assurance,…

Correlations indicating the direction and magnitude of relationships between measures of classroom processes and residual scores on the Metropolitan Achievement Test are presented and discussed for second and third grade classrooms. Many of the findings are differentiated according to the socioeconomic status of the pupils and the context of the…

This third in a series of six learning modules on instructional planning is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers experience in developing each component of the various kinds of instructional units and using them to create a written unit plan for improving instruction. The terminal objective for the module is to develop…

This fourteenth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in understanding the unique learning characteristics of different groups of students and in planning instruction so that the specific needs of slower and more capable learners can be…

This twenty-first in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers skill and experience in preparing bulletin boards and exhibits in the classroom. The terminal objective for the module is to prepare bulletin boards and exhibits in an actual school situation.…