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Carvell, Fred; And Others – 1979
This project was conducted to improve the quality and availability of information pertaining to opportunities in nontraditional occupations for use by teachers, counselors, and interested students. The major project objectives were (1) to review current employment patterns in California to identify nontraditional occupations; (2) to collect and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Employment Opportunities
Hillison, John – 1979
The purpose of this study was to determine and report the impact of high school agricultural education upon the occupational success of 1974 graduates in Virginia and compare this data with nine other Southern states. One hundred sixty-eight 1974 graduates were identified by the 10% of the Virginia agricultural education departments selected for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Followup Studies
Delaware State Board of Education, Wilmington. – 1964
THE FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE ON MENTAL HEALTH IN THE DELAWARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SUMMARIZED CONCERNING THE NUMBERS AND AGES OF EMOTIONALLY AND SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CHILDREN, LOCAL CLINICS, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND OTHER REFERRAL AND TREATMENT FACILITIES, TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS, PARENT PROBLEMS, AND WAYS IN WHICH OTHER COMMUNITIES MEET THE…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Needs, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
BILLS, SAM CRUTCHER – 1967
A SURVEY FORM RETURNED BY 381 FACULTY MEMBERS AND A TEACHER PERFORMANCE CHECKLIST COMPLETED BY 780 STUDENTS SUPPLIED (1) FACULTY OPINIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY EVENING SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AND (2) STUDENTS' RATINGS OF PERFORMANCE OF EVENING SCHOOL TEACHERS. THE FACULTY FAVORED THE EVENING SCHOOL, THOUGHT CREDIT, NONCREDIT, AND…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Adult Students, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations
LEWIS, E. GLYN – 1962
THREE BRITISH SPECIALISTS, VISITING THE SOVIET UNION IN 1961, STUDIED BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN SOVIET ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THEIR EXAMINATION OF THE TYPES OF SCHOOLS, LANGUAGE POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY, TEACHER TRAINING, METHODOLOGY, AND MATERIALS REVEALED THAT SOVIET EDUCATORS WERE INTENT UPON…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
ANDERSSON, THEODORE – 1962
BEGINNING WITH AN AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH, THE FOUR BASIC SKILLS OF HEARING, SPEAKING, READING, AND WRITING MAY BE DEVELOPED IN LANGUAGE STUDENTS OVER A 6-YEAR SEQUENCE OF STUDY FROM GRADES 7 THROUGH 12. THE DEMAND FOR COMPETENT TEACHERS WHO CAN SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT THIS COURSE OF STUDY HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR IMPROVED TEACHER PREPARATION…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, High Schools, Junior High Schools, Language Skills
Shugrue, Michael F. – 1968
A status report on the teaching and learning of English reviews and assesses a decade of change and innovation in the discipline. It surveys trends in the preparation of teachers of English, the English curriculum at all levels, and patterns of school and college organization which affect the teaching of English from kindergarten through graduate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report, required by section 233 of the Manpower Development and Training Act, opens with the chapter, "Adapting to Economic Change," which comments on major program changes during 1967, all of which relate to increasing the proportion of hard-core unemployed in the program. The chapters, "The Range of Training," and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Business Cycles, Economic Factors, Educational Innovation
LONDON, H.H. – 1967
THIS STUDY EXAMINED THE SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT EX-TRAINEES, THE SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGES THAT OCCURRED AFTER TRAINING, THE LONG- AND SHORT-RANGE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SERVICES RECEIVED UNDER THE MDTA PROGRAM, AND HOW THESE MAY BE IMPROVED. FOR APPROXIMATELY 500 PERSONS WHO COMPLETED AN MDTA…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Background, Employment Experience, Family Characteristics
Blum, Robert E.; Doyle, Linda – 1977
"The Now and the Future," a unit that integrates career development into existing eighth and ninth grade language arts programs, was revised to reduce sex-role stereotyping in career exploration experiences and was implemented in 24 schools. This project performance report describes the major activities involved in revising the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Check Lists, Curriculum Development, English Instruction
Young, Douglas L.; Taylor, John E. – 1975
Performance-oriented instruction was developed, field tested, and refined in two Advanced Individual Training (AIT) programs--Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (MOS 11D) and Armor Crewman (MOS 11E). Tasks for both MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) were inventoried and the inventories were reduced by eliminating those tasks which are not required…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Field Studies
National Library of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1974
Utilizing questionnaires, interviews, observations and the study of documents, four survey teams studied 193 federal libraries in Canada, excluding prison, hospital, and diplomatic post libraries. The four teams, consisting of government and nongovernment personnel, covered four topics: library organization and administration, staffing,…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Bilingualism, Government Libraries
Hyatt, Norman F.; Gloriod, John A. – 1972
This evaluation of 9 months of the first year of the federally funded Utah Manpower Development and Training Act Skills Center with 89 enrollees examines the program's effectiveness by means of a literature review, personnel interviews, preparation of training program objectives, and the utilization of these objectives as success criteria for the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, Goal Orientation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1974
To aid the United States Congress in its analysis of alternative for federal aid to libraries, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the two largest federally funded programs, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) Title II and the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), to assess their effectiveness in meeting…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Mueller, Jeanne; Morgan, Harry – 1974
This paper presents some practical ideas for providing social services through local programs for young children. Identified and evaluated are educational, health, and social services, (viewed as essential components of a responsible child care system) and the efforts of the large national demonstration programs (Head Start, Parent-Child Centers,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation
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