The Cluster Concept Program (CCP) for 11th and 12th grade vocational education, has completed its second year. The program is designed to prepare youth for entry level capability in a variety of related occupations rather than a specific occupation. A pretest/posttest research design, with control and experimental group design in construction…

Intended as a practical, comprehensive guide to conducting training within an organization, this manual shows how training personnel can create and administer effective programs within the constraints of time, staff, and budget. The first part covers preparation of training forecasts, selection and training of instructors and other basic program…

To help equip persons in leadership positions with procedures and techniques needed for obtaining valid and reliable evaluative data, this institute involved 100 applicants, several alternates, and consultants in various planned activities. The institute focused on these major purposes or outcomes: (1) Participants would learn additional…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the current evening/adult education administrative practices in community colleges in Washington State as perceived by the presidents, the deans of instruction, and the directors of evening/adult education; (2) to analyze selected administrative relationships between the full time day programs and…

In the 18-month study of the concentrated employment program in Boston, preliminary analysis indicated that program analysis was not possible without first examining the operation of the low-wage labor market. Accordingly, an exploration was made of the dynamic relationship between manpower programs and the economic and social environment in which…

The Second Grade Underachievers Program seeks to test the efficacy of educationally oriented play groups as a remedial educational technique as contrasted with individual tutoring, or a combination of tutoring plus educational play groups. The program attempts to interest and involve neighborhood agencies in more after-school programs that are…

The education assistance program is a task force of the Racine Environment Committee (REC), which is a non-profit organization formed in the fall of 1967 for the purpose of studying and seeing that action is taken on community problems which affect the Racine metropolitan area. The education assistance committee reviews applications for assistance…

This article surveys the College Entrance Examination Board's future program, in a possible move toward establishment of a national secondary school curriculum. Attention is focused on the future content of tests and on their effects on young people. The existing program of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) and the way the program…

Stated in this document are the principal economic, sociological, and educational references relating to the planning procedures, as well as findings, conclusions, and recommendations for activities of the Leflore County, Mississippi Project funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The project's objective was to plan…

This document includes five papers on teaching reading skills to illiterate adults. The first discusses the stages of development in acquiring reading skills--introduction, application, and mastery; and suggests two steps which should be taken with reference to reading instruction for illiterate adults--sub groups within the target population…

This basic handbook for personnel development through training and continuing education within health care institutions describes the techniques involved in developing programs, from needs determination to evaluation. It covers how to make a skill inventory and a survey of learning needs; how to state learning objectives; how to design a specific…

Focusing on a professional continuing education program in group discussion leadership skills for Louisiana public health workers, this study assessed the overall value of training to participants, and sought relationships between certain background characteristics and the value ascribed to the training experience. The Kropp-Verner Evaluation…

This is part of the final report on a project that focused on the inservice training needs of correctional personnel in the Illinois penal system. Most of this volume is devoted to an overview of existing staff training for line personnel and parole agents; an assessment of unmet training needs; group discussion and other demonstration projects in…

This document reports the Center's current thinking about PPBS and data-based educational planning. In the introduction, PPBS is defined, the usual conceptualization of PPBS is outlined, current pressure to adopt PPBS in public education is discussed, and current efforts at such implementation are reviewed. The second part deals with basic…

This study compared the performance of kindergarten children who had participated in a full-year Head Start program (FYHS) with that of children who had attended summer Head Start (SHS). FYHS subjects at each of two elementary schools were selected at random from eligible applicants. SHS comparison groups were made up primarily of children from…