A consortium of States known as the Interstate Curriculum Consortium prepared and field tested learning activity packets designed to develop 983 competencies required for employment in 69 marketing occupations. The product of the entire national product was made available to Alabama for use during the 1974-75 school year. The project described in…

This monograph looks into the origins of competency programs in higher education and explores various ideas about educational outcomes as a basis for defining what competency is and is not. These educational outcome ideas relate to behavioral objectives, mastery learning, and testing for specific competencies rather than for an intelligence test…

The related theory/curriculum resource guide for cooperative education was developed at a workshop conducted by the vocational education information network at Millersville State College during June 1975. It is a guide to provide cooperative education instructors with a framework of related theory/instruction. The guide identifies competencies in…

Faculty of nursing education programs within the Georgia university system were surveyed to ascertain their opinions about the nutrition competencies that they consider essential for comprehensive nursing practice and the level of nursing education program(s) to which these competencies are best suited. The survey instrument, 56 competency…

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 is intended to teach its users the Delphi technique for setting educational goals. Goal-setting is the necessary first step of any curriculum…

Presented as part of the Special Education Supervisor Training Project at the University of Texas is a learning packet on designing instructional units. Structured as a self-paced unit, the packet includes an eight-item pretest, three task assignments, and a nine-item evaluation checklist. (CL)

The curriculum guide for drafting occupations is one of five guides written and field tested in a project to develop statewide articulated competency-based curricula in selected vocational education programs. Contents of the guide are divided into eight curriculum levels, and students should be able to enter the program at the appropriate level of…

This orientation package provides an overview of all of the components of a comprehensive approach to guidance, counseling, and placement. The competencies related to each of the components are included in the package. The goal for the orientation module is for the participant to understand what the comprehensive approach to guidance, counseling,…

This material represents an effort to demonstrate, in a limited 60-minute experience, the type of staff development modules or packages developed with an E.S.E.A. Title III grant in Arizona by the Mesa Public schools. this staff development effort is an important part of a larger ongoing effort to develop, field test, and implement a comprehensive…

The publication represents the result of the Consumer Education Task Force's attempt to develop competencies applicable to a K-12 continuum. It has been designed to provide school district personnel with relevant data to support a comprehensive curriculum development effort; or to support a variety of alternative approaches at various grade…

The importance of curriculum development must be emphasized and integrated at all educational levels. The vocational principal, as the educational leader of his building, is in a prime position to influence meaningful curriculum development and to actively participate in its formulation. It should be delegated as a duty of the role of the…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions and opinions of the 128 students who have matriculated in a competency-based reading methods course at Rhode Island College. The course presently consists of 54 objectives in 14 instructional modules. Alternate learning activities and various postassessment options are listed in each module,…

This paper presents a nontraditional definition of competency and describes in detail a comprehensive model for the development of competency-based curricula based on that definition. The model was developed through the anasynthesis procedure and was validated through application in the development of competency-based curricula for three programs…

This developmental applied research project aims to provide an effective means of orienting non-traditional students, especially minorities and females, to engineering technology, and particularly to basic materials science. The instructional system adopted involves self-paced, individualized instruction, breaking the technical education component…

This study developed the first measurement instrument designed to accompany the concept of competency basing in counselor training. In so doing, the study screened and validated a list of skills most essential in an effective counselor. The process began with a composite list of some 1600 competencies and subordinate skills enumerated by three…