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Download full textHawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1974
Given to aid administrators are standardized state-wide (Hawaii) procedures for implementing Rule 49 (1973), intended to ensure due process during changes in the educational status of exceptional students. Thirteen samples of state forms and form letters (including reference number and general and specific instructions for completion) are…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Civil Liberties, Due Process, Equal Education
Beanblossom, Gary F. – 1970
The degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with placement of some 1,300 students in modern language courses at the University of Washington, Seattle, is ascertained at the conclusion of a semester's study. Discussion of the means used for placement in five freshman and sophomore language courses is contrasted with results of a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Counseling, French, German
Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Brookline, MA. – 1961
This survey of member institutions of the Association of University Evening Colleges and the National University Extension Association sought to determine the prevalence of giving credit or advanced standing by examination, what instruments are used for such purposes, any tendency to favor the application of credit or advanced standing to either…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Administrative Policy, Adult Students, College Credits
Nearine, Robert J. – 1967
For two consecutive years (1965-67), the Hartford, Connecticut ESEA Project 1 furnished over 1400 non-English-speaking pupils with "expanded services designed to provide a substantial portion of the school population with a functional grasp of the English language." This population represented an estimated six percent of Hartford's total…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Enrollment, Language Instruction
Diller, Leonard; And Others – 1969
To measure school achievements in spina bifida children, to relate these measures to certain variables, to obtain information on educational problems, and to study facets of cognition and its changes with age, 77 spina bifida children and 53 amputees (all aged 5 to 15) were tested. Sixty non-disabled children were at times used for controls. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Amputations, Arithmetic, Exceptional Child Research
Gold, Ben K. – 1974
This study analyzes Los Angeles City College (LACC) records for a six-semester period of students who took the Guidance Examination in fall 1970 and scored in the lowest quintile on both the vocabulary and reading sections of the examination. This score indicated that their reading level was at the eighth-grade level or lower. The students were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Developmental Studies in North Carolina and Virginia: A Constant Search for Anything That Will Work.
Swofford, Ronald; Swofford, Joyce C.
Replies to a questionnaire relating to development programs in 40 community colleges and technical institutes in North Carolina and Virginia are provided. The questions that comprised the questionnaire were: (1) Describe your procedure for determining the math and English proficiencies of entering freshmen; (2) Do you require for those students…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
Leppert, Alice M. – 1970
This booklet contains suggestions for creating an effective, "custom-made" local unit of volunteers, using the educational and social action resources of the community for volunteer training. The suggestions are tailored to fit the flexible mode of operation of Church Women United in a wide variety of communities. The statements related…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bibliographies, Church Workers
Meyen, Edward L., Ed. – 1971
Papers presented at the conference focus on three concerns relating to heterogeneous-homogeneous student placement in special education classes: handicapped children, public schools, and teacher training programs. Child centered observations include: labeling children by their disabilities, non-categorical or non-homogeneous student placement of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Needs, Exceptional Child Education, Financial Policy
Shimberg, Benjamin – 1970
Several recently developed measurement instruments, the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program (CGP), the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (DD), the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS), and the Gordon Occupational Check List, are considered in connection with guidance testing for occupational…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Aptitude Tests, Business Education, Career Guidance
Trudeau, Elaine, Ed. – 1972
Presented is a digest of state and federal laws relating to the education of handicapped children which is published by The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Part one considers the laws of the 50 states and the District of Columbia under the following subject categories: right to an education, population, identification and placement,…
Descriptors: Administration, Civil Liberties, Demography, Educational Facilities
TURNER, CHARLES J.; AND OTHERS – 1966
TECHNICAL AND NONTECHNICAL CURRICULUMS OF A SINGLE JUNIOR COLLEGE WERE EXAMINED TO BETTER HELP STUDENTS AND COUNSELORS TOWARD MORE REALISTIC DECISIONS IN CAREER CHOICE. THE PROJECT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN (1) DIFFERENTIATING STUDENTS IN VARIOUS CURRICULUMS WITHIN THE COLLEGE, (2) DIFFERENTIATING CHARACTERISTICS OF GRADUATES FROM THOSE OF UNDERGRADUATES,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, College Students, Curriculum Evaluation
Armstrong, Roberta A. – 1976
Beginning in Fall, 1975, applicants to Liberal Arts, Technology, and Forestry at the University of Minnesota could submit scores on either the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) or the American College Testing Program's aptitude battery (ACT) to satisfy entrance testing requirements. This study determined that new course placement…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Chemistry, College Admission
Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC. – 1976
Described is the program of the Georgetown Adolescent Intervention Team (Washington, D.C.), which provides interdisciplinary evaluations and diagnoses, and identifies appropriate alternative placements for developmentally disabled juvenile offenders (10-16 years old and older). The program is discussed in terms of a review of procedures for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Clinical Diagnosis, Delinquency, Developmental Disabilities
Reese, Lee W. – 1976
The 1976 edition of the handbook provides the most up-to-date accumulation of credit-by-examination policy data available. It is the result of several independent surveys conducted over the past few years. The survey for this edition resulted in about half of the institutions listed filing updated information. The College Level Examination Program…
Descriptors: Admissions Counseling, Adult Students, Advanced Placement Programs, College Admission
