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Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1981
This guide is intended to help vocational educators learn more about adult women's life experiences and the skills, knowledge, and abilities they develop through them. It also shows how to assess experiential learning to provide better career counseling and give academic credit or improved course placements. Chapter 1 overviews life experience…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Credits, Experience, Experiential Learning
Ross, Kristy L.; And Others – 1977
This learning module on establishing a student placement service and coordinating follow-up studies is one of six competency based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It discusses the rationale and objectives for a school-based placement service. Topics discussed include assessing…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Check Lists, Competency Based Teacher Education, Cooperative Programs
Zucker, Stanley H.; And Others – 1979
In the study involving 180 second and third grade teachers the effect of a student's sex or race on recommendations for placement in special classes for the educable mentally retarded was determined. Ss were randomly assigned to one of four groups: Group 1 received a case study depicting an Anglo-American male; Group 2 received a case study…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mexican Americans
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1978
This guide is a comprehensive listing of institutions that honor or grant credit or placement through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program (AP) or College-Level Examination Program (CLEP). Included also are colleges' policies regarding the use of the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) and the Achievement Tests for placement purposes…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrative Policy, Advanced Placement Programs, College Credits
Poorman, Margaret J.; Fleckenstein, Randall C. – 1978
Kirkwood Community College, with an enrollment of 4,200 full-time students, received Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) funds to address the problems of (1) the lock step nature of most of its occupational programs, (2) an attrition rate of approximately 15%, (3) once-a-year placement of graduates, (4) employer and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs
PDF pending restorationHicks, Reta D.; Monroe, Eula – 1979
A cloze informal reading inventory (CIRI) was constructed from a basal reading series and administered to all 120 second through sixth grade students at a university laboratory school to determine if CIRI was as effective as a traditional informal reading inventory (IRI). All students scoring below second and above eighth grade on the IRI were…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Lutz, William D. – 1979
In March 1977, the New Jersey Board of Higher Education created the New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program. To direct the program, the Board created the Basic Skills Council, which was charged with developing a test in reading, writing, and mathematics for all freshmen entering all New Jersey public colleges and universities. The purpose was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Wircenski, Jerry L.
The study identified characteristics and innovative approaches employed by exemplary vocational education programs in serving the disadvantaged in co-op, self-contained, and mainstreamed settings (secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels). Forty-one states, three territories and the District of Columbia responded to the request for three program…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Lutz, William D. – 1980
The development of the portion of a basic skills test that would adequately assess the writing ability of entering college freshmen in New Jersey is described in this paper. The stages of the test development process that are discussed include the decision to incorporate a writing sample in the form of an essay on a specified topic, the selection…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Smith, Richard M.; Mitchell, Virginia P. – 1980
To analyze test item and person interactions according to the Rasch Model, 822 incoming community college freshman were administered the New Jersey Basic Skills Placement Test. The Logical Relationships and Elementary Algebra subtests were chosen to examine the effect of differing average item difficulty on descriptions of fit statistics and on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit
WELLS, INEZ RAY – 1966
GUIDELINES AND SUGGESTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR A TERMINAL COURSE OFFERED DURING THE SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL IN WHICH THE STUDENT GOES TO SCHOOL ONE-HALF TIME AND WORKS ON THE JOB ONE-HALF TIME. THE STENOGRAPHIC, CLERICAL, AND BOOKKEEPING AREAS ARE EMPHASIZED. SECTIONS INCLUDED ARE (1) INITIATING THE PROGRAM, (2) LOCAL PROBLEMS, (3) RESPONSIBILITIES…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Coordinators
Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. – 1964
AS A SOURCE OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION, THIS HANDBOOK IS TO BE USED BY PROFESSIONALLY EDUCATED LOCAL COORDINATORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF PROGRAMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL WAS DEVELOPED IN 1948 BY 25 COORDINATORS. IT WAS REVISED BY TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINERS, COORDINATORS, AND STATE SUPERVISORY…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Coordinators, Employers, Evaluation Methods
Schopler, Eric; Bristol, Marie – 1980
Intended for public school administrators and regular classroom teachers, the report discusses the nature of autistic children and examines aspects of successful educational programs for them. The historical background is traced down from Itard's wild boy through theories of faulty parental conditioning, to current thought on the causes of autism.…
Descriptors: Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Curriculum, Educational Methods
Thouvenelle, Suzanne; And Others – 1980
The fourth in a series from a study of least restrictive environment (LRE) placement for handicapped students identifies exemplary practices useful in arriving at LRE placements. Analysis of state documents and observations of 134 placement team meetings held in five states were carried out. Noteworthy approaches are summarized for five…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Architecture, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Hunter, Constance L.; And Others – 1980
This manual is a practical guide for use by schools of education which must comply with the Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards for Approval of Teacher Certification Programs. These standards require that competencies needed to educate students in least restrictive environments be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate degree…
Descriptors: Competence, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Faculty Development
