If education can be deemed adequate when it meets both societal and individual needs sufficiently, those planning to provide programs of adequate education must consider what societal and individual needs must be met, how those needs can be met, and what resources must be called on when meeting them. This paper considers the development of the…

The Outcome-Based Instructional Systems approach is a comprehensive design for teaching and learning and instructional management that has its roots in the mastery learning and competency-based education movements of the early 1970s and has been implemented in hundreds of schools and districts across the country. The first part of this brief…

The Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States has as its primary goal the development of catalogs containing performance objectives and criterion-referenced measures in occupational education. Reducing duplication of efforts, sharing costs, improving content validity, and promoting performance-based instruction are among other…

This publication provides a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of recent writing on history curricula and pedagogy in the United States and interprets the major themes and trends contained in those writings. It covers January 1970 through July 1975 and comprises books, monographs, yearbooks, dissertations, periodical literature, and unpublished…

Supporting performance objectives 42 and 53 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on depositing checks, currency, and coins are included in this packet. (The packet is the eighth in a set of nine on performing computational clerical…

Supporting performance objective 39 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on reconciling bank statements are included in this packet. (The packet is the ninth in a set of nine on performing computational clerical activities--CE 016…

Supporting performance objective 55 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on performing keypunch activities are included in this packet. (Keypunch equipment is required.) The student materials include three student activities and a…

Supporting performance objective 45 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on using reference books are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of four on coordinating and performing activities for employers--CE 016…

Supporting performance objective 13 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on preparing employer's business expense statements are included in this packet. (The packet is the fourth in a set of four on coordinating and performing activities…

Supporting performance objective 16 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on editing and reviewing correspondence and reports are included in this packet. (The packet is the second in a set of three on inspecting and evaluating--CE 016…

Supporting performance objective 14 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor'a manual on choosing methods of communication are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of three on inspecting and evaluating--CE 016 981-983.) The…

Supporting performance objective 3 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on developing publication materials are included in this packet. (The packet is the second in a set of three on organizing and planning--CE 016 987-989.) The student…

The faculty of the Department of Psychology at Tennessee State University (TSU), a state university with a predominantly Black student body, designed a competency- based secondary school counselor certification proposal which is not tied to coursework in theory. This allows for flexibility in implementing the competencies within diverse courses in…