Developed within the Colorado Migrant Education Program as a workable manual for non-classroom personnel (recruiters, clerks, and terminal operators) involved with migrant education, this guide also functions as a training manual. The manual may also be used to assist local education agencies in planning and organizing migrant education programs.…

Most educational objectives can be classified as either mastery or developmental. For mastery objectives, teachers can develop satisfactory assessment instruments relatively easily and can describe student achievement as "can do" or "can't do." For developmental objectives, there are a number of evaluation methods, and student progress varies in…

This document is a comparison of three reports on secondary education prepared by the following: (1) the California State Department of Education's Commission for Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RISE), 1975; (2) the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Task Force on Secondary Schools in a Changing Society,…

Migrant Education Programs are designed for those students who, because of the migratory nature of their parents' employment, are required to move from one school district to another during the school year. In many instances these students, because of sporadic attendance and discontinuity of their educational experiences, have found it difficult,…

The Free Studies program at Alvin Junior College offers remedial and nontraditional instruction and assists in the development of alternate path learning programs. The program currently offers three courses: writing, mathematics, and study skills. All instruction is self-paced, individualized, and on a prescriptive basis as the result of…

This booklet, which gives information on practical aspects of managing an infant nursery is based on four years' experience in operating the infant and toddler day care center of the Family Developmental Center, San Francisco. Part 1 deals with communication in the nursery. The importance of good communication between staff members and between…

The Idaho due process guidelines offered provide information on how exceptional children and their parents will be accorded procedural safeguards in decisions regarding identification, evaluation, and educational placement. Included are due process practices for (1) parental initiation of special education services, (2) school initiation of…

In order to effectively manage the increasing quantity of student records of the Long Beach Community College District, a systematic microfilming of many of the student records must begin in the immediate future. This section of the Admissions and Records Staff's 1975 review of the records system recommends that a 16mm Cartridge System (from a…

Completion of a four-month study of Oakland University's administrative systems needs is reported. It is recommended that the university undertake a major developmental effort to design and install new systems, with particular emphasis on payroll/personnel, general accounting, and student records. Following the development of these systems, a new…

This report documents the second-year progress of the Community College Data Base Team in their efforts to build a geographically based data system for use by college researchers and administrators. The primary purpose of the 1973-74 team effort was to expand the 1972-73 data base by adding internally generated district items, aggregated to the…

The CEU (continuing education unit) appears to be fulfilling a long term need of the individual learner, the college and university, the professional society, the licensing board, the accrediting organization, the employer, and many other groups. It was established by a national task force from the National University Extension Association…

During the 1971-72 pilot test of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS), three alternative procedures were used to gather data within the classroom, transmit those data to SWRL for processing, and send IMS output to the appropriate recipients in the schools. ComSys 3--one of the three…

Some of the schools participating in the Southwest Regional Laboratory's Instructional Management System (IMS) pilot test submitted input data forms to and received processed information from regional processing and data collection centers. To determine the feasibility of alternative methods of data collection and output return, evaluative data…

Computer routines for the translation of teacher-prepared mark sense forms to magnetic tape are described. The program, Receiving IMS (RIMS), is part of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS). It accepts mark sense sheets from remotely located Xerox 660 scanner copiers and/or IMS update information from…

This guide provides an overview and practical suggestions for the literacy administrator and worker. Chapters deal with: an overview of the problem of illiteracy; adult learner characteristics; methods of teaching languages to illiterate adults; the organization, administration, and supervision of literacy classes; patterns of adult education;…