Reported is a descriptive study of selected workshop factors affecting the training and support of resource personnel in a science curriculum. Forty participants attended the workshop, the majority of whom were college instructors while other participants were science supervisors and consultants. Twenty-eight of the participants were members of…

Curriculum initiation in public vocational programs in Wisconsin is an unstructured procedure, is conducted from an inadequate data base and with little or no involvement of local advisory committees. Improved procedures are recommended for the purpose of facilitating curricular relevance to rapidly changing occupational needs. Data collection was…

The underlying assumption of this collection of papers written by professors of educational psychology in universities or colleges in Canada, the United States, and Britain is that "teachers are receiving an entirely inadequate preparation in psychology" and that educational psychology as it is now taught in teacher-preparation programs ought to…

An evaluation team obtained data during a three-day on-site visit to the Bridgeport (Conn.) Career Education project regarding personnel, school-community activities and support, learning activities and projects, curriculum and materials, teacher attitudes, and other factors. Evaluative data were obtained from suggested instruments, from…

The information contained in this report is presented in accordance with the goal to develop by 1975 improved procedures and techniques for the identification, diagnosis, and prescription teaching of exceptional prekindergarten children. The first section of the report is concerned with the analysis of the data collected in the Early Childhood…

Institute IV of a series of training institutes for vocational and related personnel in rural areas focused on increasing the social mobility potential of disadvantaged rural youth and adults by providing opportunities for improving occupational entry and advancement. Specific objectives of the institute were to offer participants opportunities…

This report describes the initial planning, participant selection, and participant evaluation of 5 1970 American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA) Research Training Sessions. All were designed specifically to improve the quality of research skills and competencies of trained counselor educators. The 5 sessions, each 5 days long, were…

A systematic evaluation strategy, applicable by pupil personnel staff under existing school conditions, is presented. While the strategy is useful with various levels of objectives ranging from broad program objectives to specific outcomes for individual pupil attainment, it is suggested that assessment of the degree to which pupils attain desired…

To evaluate the effect of three Houston Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) out-of school programs on work attitudes and job futures of poverty youth as well as to provide recommendations for program improvement, statistical data were gathered from NYC sponsors' reports and from the trainees' personal folders. The accuracy of the data is limited…

In a vocational high school in Ottawa, Canada, with an enrollment of approximately 750 students, 25 different shop courses are available. Students must take six shop courses during the first year, then specialize in two during the second year. During the first 2 years of operation, between two-thirds and three-fourths of those enrolled requested…

A Reading Interest Group of representatives from predominantly black colleges of the country was established by the Southern Regional Education Board's Institute of Higher Educational Opportunity. Representing 15 institutions from the East and Midwest, this group met and attested to the fact that a major percentage of the failures of black…

This paper was prepared to advise the Teacher Corps/Washington Management Team about the 1976 National Conference. The following questions were used to organize the body of the report: (1) Why a conference? (2) Why certain sessions? (3) Why certain participants? (4) Why certain presentors? and (5) What imperatives should direct planning and…

Research by the Occupational and Manpower Research Division of the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory has established that task training priority is a function of task factors and that, within a specialty, training priority ratings can be duplicated mathematically from task factor ratings. Because these ratings are measured on a different scale…

This paper summarizes the purposes, history, and funding history of the curriculum development program which is Part I of the Vocational Education Amendments, describes the major categories of the program effort, and offers recommendations for the future of the program. Problems in career development and management at the national level which have…

Stating that the shotgun approach to the science curriculum which has evolved for general education purposes is inappropriate for occupational programs, the authors report on research to evaluate the science curriculum for relevance to skills needed in various occupations. (MF)