A study of the writing abilities of high school and college students in Florida uncovered specific problem areas in teaching and curriculum design. Recommendations for alleviating writing deficiencies of high school students before they get to the university include a writing training program for prospective and inservice high school teachers,…

The facilities described for outdoor education and camping areas are designed to be an integral part of the large college or university campus, and to serve the educational and recreational programs of the educational institution and the total community. The establishment of an outdoor resident center is followed from the rationale for site…

Single-score measures of intelligence are inadequate to predict performance on a programed instruction format. Guilford's model of the intellect accounts for three dimensions relevant to learner abilities. The content dimension refers to the kind of material involved, the product dimension to the kind of output required, and the process dimension…

The Technical Assistance Unit (TAU) is one of six work components in the Field Relations and Dissemination Work Unit (FRDWU) of the Improving Teaching Competencies Program (ITCP) of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). TAU established the following objectives: (1) to provide technical assistance for any interested users of ITCP…

The Teenage Parent Program in the Alexandria City Public Schools was improved in the areas of: increased attendance of pregnant teenagers and adolescent mothers; increased numbers of students earning credit for participation; utilization of a variety of instructional methods by interagency instructors; increased student comprehension of course…

An introduction to the methodological problems posed by underenumeration in the Census of Population and the extensive efforts and recommendations to solve these problems are provided. The efforts reported in this study center around five interrelated tasks: (1) a review of the state of knowledge about social conditions and attitudes that bear on…

Fifteen reasons for the current negative status of the social studies as a curriculum in schools of the United States are provided. The 15 reasons include (1) lack of a well-planned, issue-centered, skill-oriented social studies curriculum program, (2) overdependence upon history and neglect of other social sciences, (3) lack of a minimum set of…

Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are the focus of this inventory of ESEA Title III projects for the State of Delaware, fiscal year 1974. Sixteen operating projects are described in Part I…

Forty-eight projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of educational innovations, are described in this document about Missouri ESEA Title III exemplary programs. Nineteen projects completing the third year of operation, thirteen…

The report on the management of recruit and initial skill training identifies delays in training cycles, their causes, and resultant costs. In visits to four recruit training centers, eight initial skill training schools, and various headquarters offices, the General Accounting Office (GAO) identified 1,979,000 man-days per year that new members…

The problem was a study of the content found in five commonly offered basic business courses in secondary schools to determine whether the subject matter in each course is sufficiently unique to justify the continued offering of the current series of courses or whether the content is so repetitious that further consideration of the consolidation…

Given the present economic situation, it is inevitable that more state legislatures and school boards will adopt a "cost accounting" attitude toward education. However, schools aren't factories, and using an industrial model for accountability doesn't work. To have a viable system of accountability, everyone who is concerned with education must be…

This monograph presents a diagram which distinguishes four different assessment levels in the teacher's professional development. Level 1 refers to assessments of the training experience, level 2 to assessments of the teacher's behavior, level 3 to assessments of pupil behavior, and level 4 to assessments of instruction. The diagram explains that…

In 1974 the General College Legal Paraprofessional Program was evaluated by a team of visitors representing the Special Committee on Legal Assistants of the American Bar Association (ABA). The first part of this document is the full text of the "Evaluation Report" submitted to the ABA House of Delegates by the visitation team. The second…

The following rural sociological research needs were identified: (1) acceptance of general sociological theory and methodology for use in "Rural" research; (2) recognition of bench marks and probable base lines in rural sociological research; (3) collection of widely scattered reports for examination and perhaps respecification; (4) establishment…