Volume 3 presents a descriptive outline of the Wisconsin school-based career placement model. The two major objectives for the model are: (1) to maximize the individual student's competencies for independent career functioning and (2) to maximize the availability of career placement options. For orderly transition, each student must receive the…

The document reports on the activities undertaken by occupational specialists for junior and senior high schools of Sarasota County, Florida, in the identification and placement of non-returning students or no-shows. The identification of actual and potential no-shows involves several processes and those who request assistance are presented with…

A job placement model, integrated into an existing guidance program, was developed, field tested, and evaluated in the Mt. Ararat School, Maine. The project focused on nine priorities related to job placement, job development, job-seeking and keeping skills, and followup services. Objectives, procedures, and methods of evaluation were set up for…

Summarized are 56 completed or pending state court cases regarding the right to an education, the right to treatment, and placement of handicapped children and adults. The decisions are reported to have substantiated the right of handicapped children to equal protection under the law including being provided with an education and full rights of…

In order to determine the validity of placement procedures for the educable mentally retarded (EMR) in Oregon and to examine the value of documents used in certifying EMR pupils, a diagnostic evaluation was made on 97 children who were permanently certified as EMR during the years 1967-68 (IQ scores of 50 through 80). The children were…

This six-volume teacher workbook introduces the teacher to the design of the Individually Prescribed Instruction procedure (IPI)--particularly as it is applied in mathematics--and instructs him in the use of its objectives and tools through pretest-posttest lessons. Following initial lessons in the history and procedures of individualized…

Responding to a mandate from the Board of Higher Education to submit a plan for an open admissions policy that would allocate students to the various programs of the University, the University Commission on Admissions of the City University of New York (CUNY) offers three admissions plans, all based on the use of the criterion of class rank…

A new validation procedure was developed for the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) foreign language placement tests. The procedure recommended by CEEB determines if individuals with high and low scores (1) in the same course and (2) from courses at various levels, score differentially on the CEEB tests. If both these differences are…

This report describes and analyzes the results of the first part of a two-phased study concerning the post graduation plans of seniors enrolled in Idaho secondary schools in 1971. Although it contains general information about all seniors who participated in the survey, the report focuses upon the plans of those seniors who expressed in intention…

The handbook is a description of pupil personnel services available in the schools under the jurisdiction of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. In addition to describing services for handicapped children offered by the Board, the handbook provides some guidelines for identifying exceptional children and referring them for placement.…

The manual provides a systematic set of procedures for planning, developing, and evaluating a guidance or pupil personnel services program in a school system. The report is presented in two parts; the first describes in some detail the various steps in the entire systems planning model. The essence of a systems approach is to orient planning…

There were no significant differences among the students of the three treatment groups selected from 21 fifth grade classrooms. The treatment groups included students who read at one of five levels as determined by an individual informal reading inventory, students who read at one of five levels as determined by a group informal reading inventory…

A survey was conducted of California community colleges to determine their practices concerning testing used in matriculation and placement. Questionnaires were sent to 95 colleges, 77 of which returned the completed questionnaire. Responses were tabulated according to size of college, distinguishing between testing required for matriculation and…

Evaluated with 104 experimental and 104 control Ss (at the elementary grade level) was whether the academic and behavioral gains made after 1 or 2 years of part-time placement in a behaviorally oriented resource room would be maintained following full-time attendance in a regular class for 2 or 3 years. (Author/DB)