This two-part instructor's guide was designed for a five-day course for chemists and technicians with little or no experience in inorganic analyses. Part I provides information on course planning and management including course description, staff responsibilities, suggested course plan and agenda, timeline for planning and conducting the course,…

This document provides standards of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification relating to the development, content, and periodic review of teacher education programs. It is also a guide for institutions planning revisions of existing programs or seeking to develop new teacher education programs. Chapter one…

This manual is designed to help baking students learn to use formulas in the preparation of baking products. Tested and proven formulas are, for the most part, standard ones with only slight modifications. The recipes are taken mainly from bakery product manufacturers and are presented in quantities suitable for school-shop use. Each recipe…

Issues concerning review processes used to select research to be performed in universities and sunported by the federal government are discussed. Recommendations regarding review processes, with special emphasis on the peer review system, are offered. It is proposed that review processes serve government and researchers' purposes of assuring that…

Outcome evaluation assesses the results or benefits of mental health services received by clients or communities by comparing descriptive data on the mental health status of clients at different points in time. It aids clinicians and managers in planning programs and managing clinical services. A mental health center should establish goal-oriented…

To increase quality of Indiana State Board of Vocational and Technical Education (SBVTE) proposals and final reports, a study assessed the quality of sixty SBVTE proposals and final reports from fiscal year 1976-77 and provided SBVTE with quantified descriptions of them. The first review involved acquiring descriptive information about how the…

A CASE STUDY BY A SENIOR TRAINING OFFICER OF THE BRITISH ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BOARD SHOWS WHY A FIRM MUST EXAMINE IN DETAIL A NUMBER OF FACTORS TO DETERMINE WHERE TO APPLY ITS TRAINING EFFORT. EXCESSIVE LABOR COSTS MAY BE ATTRIBUTED TO INADEQUATE OR INAPPROPRIATE INITIAL TRAINING, HIGH LABOR TURNOVER DUE TO LOW WAGES, ESTABLISHMENT OF…

This report on the results of the application of the Health Services Mobility Study (HSMS) task analysis method in diagnostic radiology describes several career ladders starting from the aide level in quality assurance or patient care, rising to the technician level, and then on to the radiologic technologist level, with options to continue to…

Forms Clearance standards and regulations are used by the Office of Management and Budget and by the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in order to upgrade the quality of federal data collection, to minimize cost, minimize reporting burden, maximize utility, and to protect the privacy rights of respondents.…

This report includes highlights of three regional ECS Early Childhood Project conferences which dealt with needs assessment and planning, child abuse, and day care services. Participants were individuals from state government concerned with planning and delivery services to young children and their families. Needs assessment and planning was…

This is a survey bibliography designed to familiarize those interested in planning with the problems, issues, institutional contexts, and substantive content of the broad area of planning that affects aspects of the physical environment whose modification by man has significant effects on social welfare. The bibliography is organized in three…

The Oral Language Program developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory is intended to disseminate and implement strategies and materials which will improve the teaching of language skills to preschool and primary children with little or no facility in English. The first version of the program, known as Mark I, did not include…

The instructor's guide is a companion document to the training manual, Training for Federal Quality Control Review. It is designed to aid regional training personnel in teaching the contents of the training manual to Federal Quality Control re-reviewers. This guide may also be used to train State staff in the quality control system and review…

A quality control model is proposed to facilitate development of effective instructional programs. The theories of R. M. Gagne and of M. D. Merrill provide the foundations for a theory of sequencing behavior into a hierarchical order in order to improve the learning potential of an instructional program. The initial step in the procedural model is…

A framework is proposed for the rigorous and continuing exercise of quality control in teacher education. The major focus is on the individual measures of quality control which can be exercised at eight critical points in the preparation and practice of a teacher: (1) college admission; (2) admission to teacher education programs; (3) student…