This is the student edition of EA 007 343. It provides the student with a detailed record of his educational progress. (Author/IRT)

The central theme of this report underlines the complexity and multifaceted problems surrounding any attempt to define relationships between special aptitudes and success in an occupation. However, relationships between special aptitudes and success in occupational training are typically more definitive and have a higher correlation. This is…

The document presents unit plans which offer list of experiences and competencies to be learned for general shop occupations in vocational agriculture. The units include: (1) arc welding, (2) oxy-acetylene welding, (3) flat concrete, (4) concrete block, (5) lumber patterns and wood building materials, (6) metal fasteners, (7) wood adhesives, (8)…

In order to determine whether a group dynamics or a traditional lecture approach is more effective as a community college health instruction teaching method, two evening classes in Health 10 at East Los Angeles College (total of 75 students) were exposed to a group dynamics, student-centered teaching technique. Data were collected from the…

This module is a competency-based staff development training package which focuses on the assessment of desired outcomes in career guidance. It is part of a long-range project designed to present a comprehensive approach to career guidance, counseling, placement and followup. As a staff training package, this module is directed toward developing…

This booklet presents the procedures and criteria of the tentative Child Development Associate (CDA) Consortium Assessment System, used to evaluate CDS candidates in winter, 1974-75. Under the assessment system, local assessment teams (consisting of the candidate to be assessed, the candidate's trainer, a parent-community representative, and a…

This document briefly discusses the planning and implementation of a Child Development Associate (CDA) program developed to fulfill the requirements of a Head Start Supplementary Training (HSST) grant at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. One of the first steps in organizing the CDA program was to convince potential candidates for 51 Head…

The module, part of a vocational teacher education curriculum unit, provides instruction in the establishment of criteria for student performance in vocational education programs. Establishing these overall criteria involves determining the points in time for performance assessment, the performance objectives to be achieved, and the level of…

The concern for accountability in New Zealand universities is discussed in terms of policy making. Several questions are addressed: What is the nature of accountability? How does it originate? What is the manner of its growth? What is its effect upon the university's character and functioning? What is meant by academic freedom? Why do academics…

It is a difficult task to arrange a learning environment permitting each student to pursue, at all times, the types of activities that most appropriately meet his needs. The concept of individualized performance-based instruction is an attempt to realistically approach this task by diagnosing students' needs and interests related to desired…

An exportable curriculum supervision system was developed to help supervisors and teachers accomplish three primary functions: to establish class performance expectations, both in terms of pupil achievement and rate of program completion; to monitor actual class performance on a regular, efficient, and systematic basis; and to use suggested…

The Building Industries Occupations course is a two-year program of approximately 160 three-period teaching days per year. The required course content is designed to be effectively taught in 80 percent of the total course time, thus allowing 20 percent of the time for instruction adapted to such local conditions as employment prospects, student…

In order to realize the goal of full opportunity that open admissions implies and to meet the needs of new types of students, we must restructure our educational institutions to meet the needs of individuals. Factors underlying the need to restructure are: (1) analysis of results of credit by examination shows that no particular method of college…

A review of recent professional literature on graduate education for library and information science reveals that many improvements are being actively sought, but most of these desired changes would take the form of minor curriculum adjustments to existing programs. What is needed, however, is a redefinition of the whole field of library and…

The role of those who train educational administrators is largely shaped by influences emanating from the training requirements or nature of the program to be provided and the institutional setting in which that training occurs. Present concerns in these areas are producing a good deal of questioning about the professorial role itself. Radical…