This learning activity package, one of six intended for use in Industrial Cooperative Training Programs, is designed to assist students in gaining the skills and attitudes necessary for getting a job. (The industrial cooperative training program provides industrial occupational training experience for high school juniors and seniors who attend…

Individualized instruction including continuous progress education and team teaching requires a complexity of organizational structure dissimilar to that of traditional schools. In such systems, teachers must maintain extensive and complex student record systems. This teachers' manual provides an example of a computerized record system developed…

SPARS is a computer data base management system designed to aid the college professor in handling his students' grades and other classroom data. It can handle multiple sections and labs, and allows the professor to combine and separate these components in a variety of ways. SPARS seeks to meet the sometimes competing goals of simplicity of use and…

The philosophy underlying this guide is that the teaching of special education students is most appropriately accomplished through a systematic approach to individualized instruction. The first step should be to determine student needs. Instructional goals for each student should then be clearly defined and behaviorally stated. Effectiveness of…

This handbook is not necessarily meant to be a lawbook, but rather a manual to be used in the field prior to the need for a lawyer. It is specifically designed to assist the school administrator and the board of education in dealing with students, teachers, staff personnel, and patrons. It essentially updates many of the topics covered in the…

The three purposes for which this study was conducted involved collection and summarization of otherwise unavailable data on student characteristics and aspirations, editing and summarization of reading test data collected over the past six years, and testing of the feasibility and utility of a computerized master file combining student data…

Since 1751 the age of 21 has been generally accepted as the age of legal majority in America. Since 1970, however, 42 States have lowered the age to 18 or 19 for most purposes, and the 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowered the age for voting in Federal elections to 18. The new statutes will have wide impact on legal affairs. In particular,…

The Southwest Regional Laboratory's Instructional Management System (IMS) central data processing system produces reports for dissemination to participating schools which provided the original source data to the system. Described in this document are the computer software routines (SIMS) that control the dissemination of information contained on…

The Total Guidance Information Support System (TGISS), is an information storage and retrieval system for counselors. The total TGISS, including hardware and software, extends the counselor's capabilities by providing ready access to student information under secure conditions. The hardware required includes: (1) IBM 360/50 central processing…

The adult basic education program of the Texas Extension Division of Texas University was organized to provide educational opportunities for at least 200 undereducated adults, evaluate materials and teaching techniques in actual classroom use, develop a student record and progress chart for reporting and evaluation in local projects, explore…

The California Education Information System (CEIS) consists of two subsystems of computer programs designed to process business and pupil data for local school districts. Creating and maintaining records concerning the students in the schools, the pupil subsystem provides for a central repository of school district identification information and a…

These seven reports are part of the developmental and longitudinal "Biography of a Class" research project at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Two reports contain demographic data, obtained from computer output, which describes the 1967 and 1969 freshman classes relative to: (1) sex, (2) marital status, (3) local residence, (4) first…

A major problem identified in the current, manually kept high school attendance system is the inability to handle the large volune of daily information. This ineffectual data management is reflected by the high absentee and tardy rates. Additionally, this failure to produce current and timely reports hinders class cut reporting. This is evidenced…

The Broward County, Florida, School District student suspension policies, rules, and procedures were found to be deficient by standards based on the Wood v. Strickland and Goss v. Lopez decisions of the Supreme Court and the guidelines set down by the Office of Civil Rights. Subsequent to the identification of the deficiencies, an accounting…

Describes the use of Appleworks to maintain classroom records of student scores. Discusses labeling, computing, sums, averages, maximum/minimum scores, and numeric grade, as well as initializing the gradebook and how to enter scores. (JM)