The bulletin is an overview of events and developments in policy regarding the education of migrants and their families, as reflected in the press, periodicals, and ministerial press releases of Europe. The bulletin contains abstracts of actions taken in the European community, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, Belgium, Denmark,…

This project was conducted for the following purposes: (1) to research current literature and the automatic data processing industry to determine needs in the field of data processing; (2) to assess the need for professional development of secondary vocational data processing instructors, and (3) to validate occupational competencies to be…

The volume presents an appraisal of the empirical research in Bilingual Education. Over 180 research studies and project evaluations were reviewed and evaluated for the soundness of their research designs. Chapter I presents a discussion of the types of research conducted in bilingual education. It includes an introduction to the problems…

This handbook is designed for tutors in a language arts tutorial program for migrant students who are deficient in reading and language skills. Introductory materials discuss the special problems of migrant children, point to programs developed to meet their needs, and explain the basic design of the tutorial program. The handbook then discusses…

Designed to expose teachers of Asian populations to innovative teaching techniques and to help them develop teaching skills and a deeper cross-cultural awareness and appreciation of Asian cultures, a 2-week institute covered skills in teaching English as a second language and aspects of Asian culture and language that significantly affect language…

The relationships of quantitative measures of writing skills to overall writing quality as measured by the E.T.S. Composition Evaluation Scale (CES) were examined. Quantitative measures included indices of language productivity, vocabulary diversity, spelling, and syntactic maturity. Power of specific indices to account for variation in overall…

Some of the areas in which Ontario educators currently employ microcomputers in higher education are addressed in several articles, bibliographies, and book reviews. Various uses of computer-managed instruction and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology are outlined by Frank A. Ford. Microcomputer CAI…

Developed by experienced migrant education teachers using several Sight and Sound Program concepts, this volume presents approximately 150 pre-drafted individual short-term Plan/Records in the subject area of secondary level communication arts, and step-by-step utilization directions for Oregon resource teachers, classroom teachers, and aides. The…

The student workbook for Socmaticas includes 271 activities which require students to utilize data from soccer team rosters to complete this bilingual, multicultural, multidisciplinary, learning program ranging from elementary to secondary levels. Encompassing the subject areas of English/Spanish, mathematics, reading, social studies, history, and…

Designed to help teachers provide students with various word processing skills, this teacher's guide contains nine units of instruction. The units address various skills that are prerequisite for entry-level word processing positions, including concepts and theories of word processing, language usage, mathematics, machine transcription and…

The Community Consumer Newsletter Program (CCN), carried out in Bushwick High School (Brooklyn, New York), was designed to develop consumer skills among students and to pass on such skills to the community through bilingual (English/Spanish) newsletters. The 30 student participants, who were given stipends for their voluntary participation in…

The Career Awareness and Readiness for Employment for Future Homemakers of America/HERO (CARE/FHA/HERO) program was established to provide 25 students at Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Bronx, New York) with paid work study experience in non-traditional home economics jobs. The goals of the program were to increase student involvement in…

Students Asking Questions (SAQ) has proved to be a simple, effective method for teaching urban third grade students to generate literal, inferential, and critical questions from their readings of instructional materials. Teachers using the SAQ method prepare students for reading a selection from a basal reader by offering one literal, one…

Nine selected papers presented at the Texas Writing Research Group's 1981 conference are offered in this collection. The papers discuss (1) sources of linguistic interference among American minorities; (2) contributions of discourse analysis to composition; (3) emerging notions of heuristic (investigative), eristic (controversial), and protreptic…

Increased student involvement with the computer at Delta State University, Mississippi, is considered. The university purchased a new computer, NCR Criterion, with six terminals and time-sharing BASIC. Two of these terminals are located in the Department of Physical Sciences, with the others located in the School of Business and in the University…