This report describes the Quality Enhancement Project (QEP), one of four major components of the Child Day Care Planning Project (CDCPP) of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The major goal of the QEP was to develop a model for improving the quality of funded centers. The quality of care at 65 funded centers in Cleveland and 11 surrounding suburbs was…

Changes in education have direct implications for the role and responsibility of professional development. This eighth guidebook in a series of nine video conferences examines the meaning of professional development in light of recent educational innovations. Included are an outline of new priorities and expanded functions of professional…

This report summarizes the proceedings of the international seminar for guidance counselors which focused on: (1) the social function of the system of guidance and counseling services, and the task of the school counselor in this system; and (2) the aims, tasks, content, and organization possibilities of educational, research, and information…

These checklists developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries to provide guidelines for the organization of a bibliographic instruction program cover the following areas: (1) preliminary planning, including needs assessment and research; (2) developing goals and objectives; (3) gaining and maintaining support from within and…

It is time for the state of Georgia to adopt a policy mandating professors of reading education, state level bureaucrats, and district level reading supervisors overseeing reading programs to return to the classroom every three to five years for a designated period of service as reading teachers. Just as classroom teachers undergo inservice…

This handbook, designed to assist Kentucky school district personnel in planning school psychological services, is organized into four major sections. In the initial section, Overview of School Psychology, information on training and credentialing of school professionals is presented. This section includes information on state requirements for…

Ten socialization studies, all of which used Becker's model of perspective shift and/or Van Gennep's three-stage socialization framework were analyzed for common patterns that would add to the empirical and theoretical base of the Becker and Van Gennep models. The studies were concerned with experiences of adults entering and moving through…

Argues that, like racist and sexist discrimination, social class discrimination is a pervasive and deeply entrenched phenomenon, focusing on two manifestations in the profession of psychology, access to full professional status and the delivery of psychological services. (Author/JM)

The role of adult education in developing countries is preparation of the people for accepting and inculcating change and helping to establish a pattern of social values enabling progress. Recommendations from the Asian Regional Seminar were a high degree of professionalism for adult educators and the establishing of a regional institute. (EA)

Public hearing records and committee reports compiled during 1975 and 1976 by the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and Senate Subcommittee on Health provide a wealth of information and analysis on major issues in the training and distribution of health professionals. This book summarizes the material in those documents to provide…

The full text of Public Law 94-484, the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976, is presented. The purposes of the statute are to amend the Public Service Act to revise and extend the programs of assistance under Title VII for training in the health and allied health professions, and to revise the National Health Service Corps…

Structural and functional characteristics of legal education define law learning in terms that determine, through the kind of professionals it trains, the strongest possibilities for societal use of law. (Author/KE)

How can one believe in democratic humanism and not believe in the concept of open admissions? (Author/KE)

Describes the cause and effect of the reduction in scale and altering in form of federal support of graduate and post graduate training in the sciences. Emphasis is on the research training programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Author/EB)

Research supported by the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education.