The guide is designed to aid the instructor in implementing the student guide entitled "Supervised Occupational Experience Record Book For Agricultural Resource Conservation, Environmental Management and Forestry". Intended for use in the secondary level vocational agriculture curriculum, general concepts, student record-keeping skills,…

Personal record management practices must reflect contemporary concerns for the rights of the individual. Recent legislation, court decisions, and the rapid expansion of computerized record systems all point to the need for new procedures in personal record keeping. Although this paper is addressed particularly to educational agencies responsibile…

An Opscan 100 optical scanner was used to score test materials received at the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) during the tryout of SWRL's Instructional Management System (IMS). This document describes the functional characteristics of the optical scanner. Directions for preparing two types of control forms processed by the scanner and…

An OpScan 100 optical scanner was used to score test materials received at the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) during the tryout of SWRL's Instructional Management System (IMS). Once a tape had been produced by the optical scanner, it was interpreted and edited by a series of computer routines which prepared the data for further processing by…

This report describes automated procedures now in use for book acquisition, and book and document cataloging and circulation, in the library at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore. The purpose of the automation is to increase frequency and accuracy of record updatings, decrease the time required to maintain records, improve the formats of the…

A review is provided of the learning laboratory concept as it is being implemented in the Ohio Adult Basic Education Program. Seating, scheduling, budgeting, and related details are considered first, followed by laboratory coordinators and supportive staff members, the use of programed instruction, selection of programed materials, student…

These three documents offer an overview of the efforts of the University of North Carolina to implement the Continuing Education Unit (CEU) in its constituent institutions. Included are a preliminary statement, defining and offering general information regarding the CEU; a speech examining its development, applications, and future; and a guide…

This document gives the minimum standards required for licensing day care centers and nighttime centers in the State of Illinois. The standards were established by the Department of Children and Family Services under the Child Care Act of 1969. Included in the publication are: (1) an explanation of the legal basis and application of standards; (2)…

The Committee on Infant and Preschool Child of the American Academy of Pediatrics has developed basic standards for quality day care for children under 3 years of age. The availability of day care provides a mother with the choice of group day care as one of the means of providing for her children. Options should include full-time or part-time day…

The Rockford Cable Project is an experimental program using two-way cable television to train firefighters in prefire planning. The instructional design calls for firefighters across the city to view videotapes simultaneously and respond to computerized questions via a specially-designed pushbutton terminal. The project provides for centralized…

Measures to decrease vandalism include participation in planning by students, community members, and school personnel; principals with strong leadership capabilities; unobtrusive security measures; architectural solutions; and prompt preventive maintenance. (MLF)

The Financial Aid Office at the University of California, Berkeley, commissioned a small pilot study to field test the use of student journal expenditure diaries to verify the adequacy of financial aid student budgets. The technique was considered successful and will be continued. Expenditure Diary Survey forms are included. (JT)

Key issues in planning and designing a human resources management or personnel data system are system planning, system design and development, system implementation, and system evaluation. The author discusses necessary steps in designing a successful system. (MF)

This article summarizes a few of the areas of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which are of special concern to parents. (SBH)

Based on an in-house study at the University of Iowa, this report describes both economic and noneconomic issues involved in federally-mandated programs. The effect of direct and hidden costs are discussed along with the potential "opportunity" costs of federal impact. ( LBH)