This document comprises two leaders' guides and two participants' guides to two inservice presentations on the speech/language professional's role in working with at-risk infants and toddlers. Videotapes are intended to accompany the materials. The needs assessment, field testing, content/design analyses, and validation studies conducted in the…

The Third World countries of Botswana and Tanzania have used Radio Learning Group (RLG) campaigns effectively to get a limited amount of important information to a very large group of people at the same time. During campaigns voluntary participants organized in groups of 5-20 meet twice a week for about 5 weeks to listen to radio broadcasts about…

This book offers an analytical history of the associate degree nursing (ADN) program and the role of associate degree nurses in the U.S. health care system. It covers the period from just after World War II to the middle of the 1980s. The support of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Federal Government for ADN education is highlighted. Chapter…

The document includes two questionnaire/survey instruments, one completed by 36 pupil appraisal personnel (e.g., psychologists, social workers, physical therapists, nurses) and the other completed by 38 child search coordinators as part of a study designed to evaluate the quality and efficiency of early education programs serving handicapped…

Concern for the dropout phenomenon among secondary learning disabled (LD) students led to a preliminary study of an urban school's decision-making structures, as well as events that influence ninth graders' behavior and decisions, increasing their risk for dropping out of high school. Data were collected from three sources: observation of school…

Using the Outdoor Learning Experience of the Children's Demonstration School for migrants as an example, this guidebook is intended for administrators, program directors and potential funding sources who are concerned with the development and implementation of an outdoor learning experience for children. A model is provided that can be used as a…

The report evaluates the 1980-81 Title IV-A Indian Education Program consisting of three components designed to address special priority needs of Indian students in the Oklahoma City Public School System. Performance goals of the first component, supplementary academic assistance, were long-term tutoring of Indian students who scored below the…

This report of conference proceedings provides information and observations concerning the improvement of vocational education delivery systems within Black colleges and universities. The conference was held at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education for the purpose of discussing relevant information and techniques on the topic of…

This document contains an overview of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 447 and CE 018 449.) Divided into thirteen sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes…

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the nature and extent to which articulation practices are used in selected industrial education programs of California public secondary schools and community colleges. Hypotheses were tested for significance of difference in the mean scores between secondary and community colleges at the personnel levels…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this second section (4.2) of module 4 (Planning) focuses on the involvement of the faculty and staff in financial program planning for shifting resources to coincide with…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this fourth section (4.4) of module 4 (Planning) consists of a series of suggested readings and activities to aid the administrator and staff in developing a supportive…

This report provides some perspectives on existing school-age child care and proposes some alternative school-age care program models which maximize the use of community resources and, thus, reduce potentially high costs. Chapters One and Two examine the current school-age "child care" services both nationally and in Region X (Oregon, Washington…

This report focuses on the major similarities and differences of three sets of day care licensing standards (model, state, and federal) in order to provide an information base for isolating the problems, concerns, and issues involved in day care licensing. Sets of standards compared are: (1) "OCD Guides for Day Care Licensing," 1973…

An infant-toddler program of parent training in child growth and development, based primarily in the home, has become the major focus of the Child and Family Resource Program (EFRP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, one of 11 sites in this Head Start affiliated program. This report describes and evaluates: (1) the goals and operational objectives of the…