Various aspects of the field of technical editing are discussed in this anthology. The 18 articles deal with the following topics: patterns for making editorial changes; the editor as generalist as well as specialist; training the editor beyond the acquisition of skills; criticism and creativity; a logical approach to editing proposals, reports,…

The Danville Community Consolidated School District of Danville, Illinois, uses the remediation process to remove unsatisfactory but tenured faculty. The teacher is told what must be remedied and faces several evaluations. The basic obstacles to such a firing process are board policies, negotiated contracts, the employees' defensive actions, and…

Job information, presented for use by high school counselors, was derived from a statewide study of nonfarm agricultural occupations which revealed that 20,025 Louisiana workers in 1,699 job titles were doing work demanding some specialized training in agriculture. Information includes a description, employee qualifications, employment…

Each of the 18 basic vocational directions (occupational clusters) has a general role description, relevant personality traits, and types of interests generally considered to be compatible with that occupational cluster. The Branch of Counseling and Testing Services developed the "Counselor's Desk Aid" to facilitate use of the…

One hundred abstracts of sociological studies of occupations are collected in this volume, designed primarily as a vocational guidance counseling tool. Taken mainly from journal articles, the studies usually relate to the subtle social characteristics of jobs, such as cultural pressures, role identities, role conflicts, prestige, and differential…

The ADAPT Supplementary Educational Center is a Title III Elementary and Secondary Education Act PACE Center funded for the purpose of encouraging educational change and encouraging relevant activities in the educational programs in its service area. During 1967-68, one of the activities in the ADAPT application called for "four conferences for…

The overall objective of this study of 43 elementary and secondary principals is to provide greater insight into the nature of the principalship and into the characteristics of principals and their schools. More specifically, the objectives are to determine whether the study of the principalship and of principals by school level or location should…

This document is a report on teacher oriented research at the Department of Educational and Psychological Research of the Malmo School of Education in Sweden. It contains four papers: "Education in Teacher Training,""Studies of Closed Circuit Television,""Job Analysis as a Basis for Training and Further Education in the…

The directory lists those occupations requiring some kind of formal certification, and is presented in two phases: (1) occupations requiring licenses, certificates, or permits from the State of New York, and (2) occupations requiring licenses, certificates, permits, or union cards from nongovernmental agencies. The first section of phase one…

The purpose of this study was to provide information for program planning to improve the quality of occupational information disseminated in Washington schools. The study tried to answer the following questions: Are the materials being used? Who is using them? Are they considered helpful? What changes are recommended? The method used was a survey…

Information obtained in a survey of chief state school officers in May 1975 pulls together diverse factors that help to clarify the general understanding of the officer's position in each state, as well as those factors that most commonly define all chiefs. Chiefs' salaries, ranging from $20,000 to $75,600 did not often bear a direct relationship…

This pamphlet, published by the Canadian Department of Manpower and Immigration, is the fourth of a Careers-Canada series and describes careers in electronic data processing. The pamphlet is divided into eight major sections: (1) history and importance; (2) where computer people work; (3) nature of work; (4) working conditions; (5) advancement;…

Summarized in this publication are the statistical highlights, conclusions, and implications of a study designed to analyze the shifts in Mississippi's occupational and industrial employment structures, and their interrelationship during the period from 1950 to 1960. Using data obtained from the United States Bureau of the Census 1952 and 1961…

The document contains a master listing of all Mountain-Plains curriculum, compiled by job title, course, unit and LAP (Learning Activity Package), and arranged in numerical order by curriculum area. Preceding each curriculum area is a page of explanatory notes describing the curriculum area and including relevant job descriptions. Where a job…

The five projects presented in this report illustrate different approaches to vocational guidance. An occupational survey of St. Lawrence County was undertaken to determine the curriculum needs of the vocational centers. Secondary objectives were to determine employment needs and opportunities and to provide improved occupational information,…