A project was conducted which focused on the development of viable, competency-based materials, including a user's guide, for the inservice training and improvement of local level vocational education administrators. The project objectives were accomplished in four phases: the development of a needs assessment instrument which revealed (1) task…

This module is one of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. (The modules are the result of a project designed to develop and test instructional packages for use in performance-based…

A two-year research activity was undertaken to develop an individualized curriculum delivery system for competency-based vocational education. Foci of the research were the development of a theoretical framework for the delivery system; identification of components and processes of the system; and development of validated criteria to be used in…

Described in this final report is the development of a plan to produce and distribute an instructional package for teaching the concepts of competency-based instruction in home economics pre-service education programs in the state of Virginia. Nine Virginia Universities (Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University, Radford College, James…

This study asserts that international university students need a reading program which stresses (1) the student's understanding of and adaptation to the political, social, and economic forces of the United States and (2) the development of communication skills in standard American English. In developing a program of competency-based instruction…

The Dale Avenue Early Childhood Education Project was developed in the Dale Avenue School in Paterson, New Jersey through funding the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The Project was validated in 1973 by the standards and guidelines of the U.S. Office of Education as innovative, successful, cost effective, and exportable. As a result,…

The Institute for Personal and Career Development (IPCD) provides graduate level instruction in a number of disciplines to groups of individuals who might otherwise not be able to obtain a graduate education. IPCD attempts to provide an alternate program that meets the needs of these individuals by emphasizing controls which would promote more…

The curriculum guide for nursing 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. Following an introductory section giving the philosophy, background, and recommendations for nursing education, the 82 study units are…

Ten essays are presented that consider a number of philosophical and technical issues associated with an emerging curriculum strategy known as competency-based education. Among them are: The debate over the relevance of liberal versus practical subjects; faculty renewal; the impact of reform on the student; the validation of excellence; and the…

This document represents a complete compilation of instruments used by the University of Georgia Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) staff to field test the Georgia Principal Assessment System in order to validate high priority principal competencies and performance indicators during the 1974-75 project year. The seven…

A holistic and teleological approach to individualized FL instruction is proposed as a possible universal pedagogical theory. The following guidelines are offered. Broad goals and specific operational objectives should be defined, and performance testing devices developed. Each student's particular psychological aptitudes and physiological and…

The University of Minnesota's Special Education Administration Training Program (SEATP) is a competency-based education program, developed from a systems orientation model, and used for continuing education of professional administrators. The report presents an overview of the SEATP program under the following topical areas: (1) background…

Due to concern for the development of relevant graduate preparation of community college professional personnel, the Portland Metropolitan Area Adult Education Council coordinated the establishment of the Community College Doctoral Task Force Committee to develop a proposal for a Portland-based community college doctoral degree. The doctoral…

Presented in the first of 4 related documents on the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Program is an overview of the procedures for developing a competency based curriculum for normal preschool Appalachian children up to 6-years-old. Discussed are the investigation's procedural components: rationale; philosophical framework (including…

The development of a competency base for a preschool curriculum is described in this report on the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Process, a three-component educational system for 3, 4, and 5-year-old children. The major goal of the HOPE Process is to affect the parent-child instructional relationship by delivering the curriculum through…