At Oregon's Lane Community College (LCC), all full-time students and students enrolled in English Composition (WR121) are required to take a 35-item writing placement test. Students with test scores deemed "marginal" (i.e, those scoring between 20 and 24 points) are advised to take a preparatory course (WR120) before enrolling in WR121,…

A Spokane, Washington, program was designed to offer training and employment opportunities within the residential and commercial construction industries to females, minorities, incarcerated persons, veterans, and economically disadvantaged men and women. A total of 21 classes with a total of 3,116 training hours were offered to 277 participants.…

Two kinds of evaluation measures assessed the effectiveness of the 1981-82 Washington State University High School Equivalency Program (WSU-HEP). Discrepancy evaluation measures outlined in the WSU program proposal were employed by the staff in documenting the degree to which the program met its stated goals which were clustered around four…

A case study followed a child from birth to approximately age eight, recording his early successes with learning language and reading skills, and then discusses his academic decline after being labeled a low achiever and a candidate for remedial classes. The child had learned to construct words from magnetic letters at an early age, and by age…

The manual contains forms, handouts, checklists, and other materials used in and developed by the Bilingual Screening and Reading Clinic Demonstration Project of New York City's Community School District 3. The materials are provided for teachers and administrators to use or modify for working with bilingual school populations in need of…

A report to the President of the State University of New York College At Old Westbury by the Enrollment Planning Committee is presented. Ten important recommendations include: convince the local guidance community of Old Westbury's direction and quality education; investigate a computerized student inquiry tracking system; initiate a computerized…

This annotated bibliography of 180 items related to English literacy for non-literate, limited-English-speaking secondary school students includes documents, monographs, reports, handouts, curricular materials, articles, bibliographies, newsletters, publishers' catalogs, and other materials. The information is categorized in six sections: (1)…

Of the 50 papers, selected titles include "Redefining the Client, Expanding the Evaluator's Role" (Weldon, Gibson); "Professional Contacts for Evaluator's Expanding Roles" (Dowd); "Vocational Evaluators and the Law" (Kass); "Ethics in Vocational Evaluation" (Early); "Professional Advocacy in Vocational…

This volume of the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) offers statistical data relating to 475 students (ages 13-21) with health impairments, defined to include youth having limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to chronic or acute health problems that adversely affect education performance (includes…

Program results emerging from policy changes concerning identification and placement of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in one school district are evaluated. The policy changes permitted students classified as bilingual, English-dominant, or English monolingual to be placed by committee in an appropriate instructional program (bilingual,…

Information on the educational system of Austria and guidelines on the placement of Austrian students in U.S. high schools and colleges are presented. After a brief introduction on the country and the basic structure and principles of the educational system, attention is directed to primary and secondary education. Vocational educational offerings…

This report contains the final products of the Student Services Program Review Project (SSPRP), which was designed to develop evaluation models to measure the efficacy of the various student services programs provided by the California community colleges. The first sections of the report offer introductory information on the goals and activities…

Over the past ten years, dramatic changes have been seen in the numbers of mildly mentally retarded students in the United States; in particular, a 30 percent decrease in the number of mildly mentally retarded students between 1976 and 1986 has been well documented. These changes have occurred in response to litigation in the federal courts,…

An overview is provided of the efforts of Foothill College (Los Altos Hills, California) to implement more sophisticated, comprehensive, and directive student services, and of how these services will be expanded in the future. Following introductory comments on California's efforts to develop a statewide student matriculation plan, chapter 1…

The paper, originally given at a 1986 Ethnic and Multicultural Symposium, reports the results of a series of studies on the identification and placement of limited English proficient (LEP) Hispanic students. Research findings relate to the referral, assessment, and placement of LEP students in programs for the learning disabled, mentally retarded,…