The Self-Motivated Personal Career Planning guide for students presents a process of self-assessment and goal-setting. An overview and rationale of the program and instructions and procedures are discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. The remainder of the guide consists of procedural steps for (1) self-assessment and (2) review and planning.…

Developed by an experienced group of Texas adult education teachers, the handbook deals with basic information on certain aspects of adult education important to the orientation of new teachers and useful for all teachers. Section 1, briefly considers adult education laws in Texas, definitions used in adult and continuing education, enrollment…

This document describes the 3-year Parent-Child Early Education Program which was designed to train teachers to work with young children. Basically, the staff development project attempted to devise a plan by which the teachers changed their perception of themselves and their role as teachers mainly through inservice training. A four-step process…

Selection of the chief administrative officer for a college or university ranks extremely high among important decisions required by the membership on the board. In discussing the role of the trustees in the evaluation of college and university leadership, the following suggestions are made: (1) Clearly indicate the expectations of leadership and…

In this experiment, the effects of attainment or nonattainment of self-set goals are assessed in individuals of three ethnic groups (white, black and Mexican-American), both pre- and post-desegregation. The method used to test level of expectation, actual performance, and reactions to success or failure is a simple ring toss game. Subjects varied…

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ran a demonstration Model Cities Training Program to enable the 50 members of the Community Development Administration Board to function as a cohesive administrative body. Seminars were held on 10 Saturdays in the fall of 1969; large and small group sessions were held and participants had time to interact…

This guide was compiled by a group of rural Arizona day care center managers working under the Migrant Opportunity Program (MOP) established in 1965. The managers were previously inexperienced and, at the end of two years, were interested in self-improvement and more efficient ways to perform their jobs. Their collaboration and idea exchange,…

Participants from 23 states and 4 Canadian provinces attended the Fourth National Conference on Outdoor Education sponsored by the Outdoor Education Project and the Council on Outdoor Education and Camping of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. The conference was primarily a working conference designed to deal…

This collection of papers by various authors focuses on the following topics: (1) educational change and implications for the principal, (2) resource acquisition and allocation, (3) evaluation and the principal, (4) goal-oriented evaluation, (5) teacher preparation, and (6) current and future problems of Alberta school principals. (LLR)

Every human being is always open to some degree; for example, open for learning, experience, change, improvement, or further degradation by his own standards or those of others. Every experience alters an individual's learning capacity. Therefore, to say a child is naturally of high or low intelligence with unlimited or limited learning power is…

A project is being conducted to test the feasibility of an information storage and retrieval system for museum specimen data, particularly for natural history museums. A pilot data processing system has been developed, with the specimen records from the national collections of birds, marine crustaceans, and rocks used as sample data. The research…

The principles and philosophy of vocational education are presented in this document in programed instruction form for use by potential vocational education teachers in teacher preparation courses in colleges or universities. Orientation and basic terminology is included under headings of: (1) The Place of Vocational Education, (2) Vocational…

The comparative analysis of students' attitudes included Mexican American, Anglo, and Asian students (from Thailand, Taiwan, and the Philippines). A Likert scale was used to measure all attitudes. All analysis performed utilized cross tabulation and chi square. The attitudes studied were reasons for going to college; concept of an educated person…

The objective of this paper was to investigate, within a path analytic framework, the form and degree of the relationship between young women's marital plans and their educational expectations. The data for analysis were obtained from a 3 wave, 6 year panel of non-metropolitan southern youths in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and…

This document describes the Competency-Based Teacher Education program at Florida A&M University (known as FAMU-CBTE) designed to permit teacher education trainees to become actively involved with youth at every stage of their university training. Theoretical aspects of learning to teach are transmitted through the use of training modules,…