This publication provides information about the education program requirements of the state board of education and the state statutes, together with suggested school district guidelines. Its three major purposes are to present the revised Minimum Standards for Public Schools adopted by the board in December of 1974, to specify criteria used to…

This self-instructional learning packet is one part of a competency-guided program for instructional supervisor preparation developed by the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) project. This packet leads its users through an exercise simulating the recruitment and selection of personnel to staff a new community school program within a…

This paper discusses the design of a physical education curriculum to be used in advanced secondary physical education programs and in university basic instructional programs; the design is based on the premise of mastery learning and employs programed instructional techniques. The effective implementation of a mastery learning model necessitates…

This module is part of a competency-based staff development training package which presents a systematic approach to guidance, counseling, and placement. The focus of this module is training staff personnel to determine program goals and objectives. On completion of the readings and activities of this module the reader will be able to use current…

The course approach reported in this document provides an alternative method of attaining the departmentally-accepted general course goals for basic speech communication. This approach begins with the identification of the student's core communication competencies which, divided into component concepts and subskills, are stated as behavioral…

In this paper, the author discusses the need for educational reform that will make public schools more thorough and efficient, and at the same time more humane. These changes can best be realized, he argues, through a curriculum that is organized around a system of required educational competencies rather than around required courses. Instituting…

This document examines a system for integrating reading into the earth science curriculum. Such topics are examined as to why the earth science curriculum can benefit from reading program participation, competency based instruction in content courses, reading/thinking competencies in earth science, assessing reading competency in earth science,…

Described is the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Home Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE), program which began as a model preschool program and later shifted to development of support materials for use with young children. Use in the program of paraprofessional home visitors, educational television programs and weekly classroom experiences is…

The concept of competency-based (CB) curriculum was applied to the College of Pharmacy in March, 1975, after extensive study of the idea. Establishment of a CB curriculum was viewed as a project with several components: competency identification, validation and evaluation of competencies, assessment of the presence of competencies, instructional…

Competency-based instruction provides the mechanism necessary to implement the democratic and humanitarian philosophies espoused by community colleges. This document discusses the need for competency-based instruction, identifies instructional methods, and provides insights into the curricular ends of this type of instruction. An instructional…

The Michigan Vocational Education Service, in September 1972, implemented a Performance Objectives Development Project to generate objectives for all vocational/technical education programs in the State. It was necessary that each school district adopt a set of minimum performance objectives for each program to retain the district's priority for…

The guide provides current information about the carpentry field, opening with occupational information relating to descriptive terms for carpentry and woodcraft activities taken directly from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Curriculum materials information incorporates a carpentry task inventory check list developed by The Ohio State…

Applied performance tests are instruments designed to measure performance in an actual or simulated setting. The identifying difference between applied performance and other tests is the degree to which the instrument approximates the reality of the situation in which the task must be performed. A Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing…

The effectiveness of a performance-based, experimental writing program was investigated in samples of fifth- and sixth-grade children. The writing program provided instruction in specific syntactic variables from Golub's formula for syntactic density. Six teachers in one school were involved in the 15-week experimental program; four teachers in…

This booklet is one of five related publications that delineate the program developed by the District of Columbia Public Schools for fulfilling the district's educational mission. The heart of this effort is the design and implementation of a districtwide competency-based curriculum for the prekindergarten level through grade 12, plus the…