Ninety-one projects funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of eudcational improvements, are summarized and highlighted in this project status and progess report of Ohio ESEA Title III programs. Projects are broken down according…

The report evaluates attitudinal changes among the 44 Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) students during the 1972-73 academic year, as measured by the semantic differential, a test in which students were asked to select one of seven spaces separating bipolar adjectives for each of 20 pairs of adjectives…

The report investigates the pattern of interests among the 44 students at the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program during the fall, winter, and spring of the 1972-73 program year as measured by the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS). Group One students (those matriculating in September 1972)…

The report describes an evaluation of seven affective and cognitive traits of 40 of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program during the 1972-73 program year as measured by the Student Information System (SIS). All students were tested in February and in May 1973; Group One…

The positive experiences of one disaffected teenager in an Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program demonstrate the characteristics of an emerging program significantly different from the traditional high school; these characteristics include: a clinical mode of operation based on study and diagnosis of student needs; flexibility;…

Six experiments in health and education were conducted in rural areas of the continental United States and Alaska during 1974-75, using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Applied Technology Satellite-Six. The experimental activities included courses designed for elementary, junior high, high school, and college; continuing…

Volume 1 presents a summary of the methodology, problems, and recommendations of seven projects demonstrating the coordination of public library with public schools services for disadvantaged adults. The summary covers personnel (clients, orientation of undereducated adults to library services, readers' profiles, library cards, and advisory…

The document is a handbook designed to aid program administrators in planning, managing, and assessing adult educational television (ETV), to assure adult viewers the maximum instructional/learning benefit possible. The handbook includes four types of information; (1) an introduction to the Appalachian Adult Education Center (AAEC) experience, (2)…

The first of two parts, the narrative report examines vocational education programs and is based on State and Federal records and other sources. A summary of the report is presented and two recommendations are directed to Congress regarding the lack of coordination between vocational education and manpower training and the lack of progress towards…

This annual evaluation report on educational programs administered by the Office of Education for fiscal year 1973 updates and extends last year's report and incorporates the results of the studies completed as of June 30, 1973 as well as new information derived from program operations, data collections and monitoring activities. Included in each…

The publication provides a listing of exemplary and innovative occupational education programs and projects designed to serve as models for use in vocational contracts with local educational agencies, colleges and universities, and other public and private agencies for the development and operation of the programs. The listing, which is arranged…

The reports comprising the document are from the State directors of vocational education, the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, and the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education. The reports from the State directors form Part 1, the largest part of the document, presenting the most comprehensive and detailed information on…

The document is a preliminary inventory of innovations, practices, and products compiled from reports submitted to the Division of Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education. Concise descriptions of innovations are arranged in five categories: delivery systems, instruction, English as a Second Language (ESL), staff development, and other. The…

Escuela Amistad, an activity center in San Jose, California, is now operating at capacity, five months after its origin. Average daily attendance has been 125 adult students, 18-65, most of whom are females of Mexican-American background. Activities and services provided by the center are: instruction in English as a second language, home…

The San Diego demonstration project provides occupationally oriented English as a Second Language (ESL) materials aimed at preparing students for job training, on-the-job training, or entry-level employment, mainly in semi-skilled occupations. The job-readiness curriculum is planned to bring the monolingual Spanish speaking adult student to a…