Investigating programs and full-time personnel which provide special needs services at the postsecondary level in Minnesota Area Vocational-Technical Institutes (AVTIs), a study assessed variability in practitioner use of individual student diagnostic information and prescriptive services in individualized education program (IEP) development and…

These appendixes are the second volume of a final report of a project to (1) demonstrate a model of appropriate vocational service for developmentally disabled adults and (2) provide technical assistance and training to community facilities serving these persons. (Volume 1, the report, is available separately. See Note.) Contents include an intake…

Summaries are included here for all vocational research projects in Florida from 1965 to 1976 as well as a few 1977 projects which have been completed. The format for the entries is informative data (title, organization, project director, expenditures, project duration, and project number), problem to be addressed, objectives to be met, procedures…

INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES FROM 601 JOB SEEKERS AT THE HARYOU-ACT CENTER AND JOHN F. KENNEDY JOIN CENTER BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1965 AND JUNE 1966 FURNISHED DATA FOR THIS STUDY OF WORK-SEEKING NEGRO YOUTHS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 AND 21. SIMILAR DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM THREE CONTROL SAMPLES INCLUDING 260 MALE JUNIORS AND SENIORS AT A PREDOMINANTLY…

IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTICS OF HOME ENVIRONMENT WHICH RELATED TO THE WORKER'S EMPLOYMENT RECORD, TO TEST METHODS OF OBTAINING INFORMATION, AND TO DEVELOP RATIONALE FOR LATER TESTING, DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM COMPANY RECORDS, A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF 40 EMPLOYEES IN TWO GROUPS, AND INTERVIEWS OF EMPLOYEES' WIVES. ALL PARTICIPANTS WHO WERE…

PAPERS AND DISCUSSION SUMMARIES ARE PRESENTED FROM A CONFERENCE ON THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF CHILDHOOD BRAIN DAMAGE, HELD AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA IN NOVEMBER 1962. A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES IS REPRESENTED, AND THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE CONSIDERED--(1) "THE PROBLEM OF 'BRAIN DAMAGE' IN CHILDREN" BY HERBERT G. BIRCH, (2)…

THE WOMEN'S TALENT CORPS, ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH PERMANENT POSITIONS IN COMMUNITY AGENCIES AT A NEW ENTERING LEVEL, HAS DEVELOPED AN ACTION-CENTERED APPROACH TO THE TRAINING OF WOMEN FROM GHETTO AREAS FOR PRE-PROFESSIONAL JOBS IN HOSPITALS, WELFARE AGENCIES, AND SCHOOLS. THE CORPS NOW SEEKS TO PUT ITS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON A PERMANENT BASIS AS A…

WOMEN'S TALENT CORPS, FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, WILL MEET TWO SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN NEW YORK CITY--JOB SHORTAGES IN COMMUNITY SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT AND LACK OF TRAINING AMONG THE POOR. WOMEN WILL BE RECRUITED FROM LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS AND TRAINED AS PRE-PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANTS IN SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND SOCIAL AGENCIES…

This document reports on research in progress on the nature and dimensions of careers. Following a brief introduction, the second section develops and illustrates new concepts and measures for analyzing career lines. The following concepts are defined in terms of the chosen conceptualization: job, career, career lines (regularities in job…

The Indianapolis Cities in Schools program determined that a comprehensive career education program could best provide the vehicle for coordinating and implementing the education, programmatic, and social service components of the program at Arsenal Technical High School. Major goals were to be infusion of career education materials into existing…

This report documents a third-party evaluation of Career Decisions, an elective career exploration course to investigate the program's effectiveness in achieving its student outcome objectives. The report is organized into chapters by five general evaluation questions: (1) What did students experience in the classroom components?, (2) What did…

A curriculum pilot project was initiated for purposes of helping the Acoma and Laguna Pueblo Tribes (2 of 19 Pueblo Tribes located in New Mexico) to improve the education of their children. A majority of these students were bilingual and the overall educational program did not seem to meet their particular learning needs, resulting in poor…

Methods in planning and implementing effective courses in health careers cooperative education are presented in this manual designed to serve as a guide for cooperative education teacher-coordinators. The guide is the result of a project conducted to explore the feasibility of cooperative education as a means of serving the needs of high school…

Techniques and problems involved with the assessment of prior experiential learning are discussed and the assessment techniques of baccalaureate health administration programs are reviewed. Experiential learning is defined as learning that an individual has attained through experience prior to enrollment in an academic program. Broadening access…

This publication is a compilation of the presentations given at a symposium held to explore where California is in respect to credit for prior and experiential learning, and whether the State should be moving toward a more comprehensive mechanism for assessing, awarding, and recording such credit. The keynote address provides an overview focusing…