Automatic image pattern recognition techniques have been successfully applied to improving productivity and quality in both manufacturing and service applications. Automatic Image Pattern Recognition Algorithms are often developed and tested using unique data bases for each specific application. Quantitative comparison of different approaches and…

A group of learning disabilities teachers prepared a series of workshops to share their strategies and techniques with regular classroom teachers. Among workshop topics presented were introduction to learning disabilities, characteristics and emotional development of the learning disabled child, motor training, and an educator's discussion of the…

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation to help institutions of higher education develop course-related library instruction programs for students in undergraduate science programs. The first volume of the annual report for 1976-77 describes the project, which involved bringing together teams of librarians and teaching faculty…

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation to help institutions of higher education develop course-related library instruction programs for students in undergraduate science programs. The fourth volume contains appendices ten through twelve. These include excerpts from participant team reports, the project announcement in College…

The workshop staff packet contains nine worksheets designed to assist adult educators in organizing and coordinating their own work and that of the workshop staff and consultants. Worksheets included are: (1) Needs Assessment/Problem Analysis and Competency Models; (2) General and Specific Learning Objectives; (3) Learning Resources…

The 1972 Summer Conference for Counselors of the Institute for Services to Education, Thirteen College Curriculum Program was held at Newton College of the Sacred Heart, Newton, Massachusetts during the period of June 25 through July 14, 1972. The general theme throughout the entire conference was three-fold in nature: (1) to introduce and develop…

This handbook describes the tasks, materials, rationale, and procedures for conducting a five-session Communication Workshop for Parents of Adolescents. It is designed for a variety of professionals, including psychologists, social workers, ministers, school counselors and others whose work with families has alerted them to the acute need for more…

Summarized are presentations given at a 1-year Prescriptive Teaching Workshop, a Title III educational program designed to maintain the learning disabled elementary school child in the regular classroom. Outlines, diagrams, and bibliographies are provided for presentation topics such as the special service circuit, educational assessment, behavior…

The workshop was designed to bring together Philippine and American scientists, engineers, educators, and administrators for collaborative identification of problems and issues relevant to environmental education and training needs, development of possible alternative solutions to the problems, and consideration of ways to strengthen the host…

The document presents a discussion and evaluation of the training workshop program developed by the Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network and the Iowa State Department of Public Instruction to help teachers incorporate the Bread and Butterflies television series on career development into fourth, fifth, and sixth grade curricula. The Bread and…

An examination of the Hartford Graduate Center was the focus of a workshop designed to: (1) study its goals for continuing education programs for working professionals, (2) analyze a proposed approach for accomplishing these goals, and (3) assess how the knowledge and resources of continuing education can be most effectively used. Participants…

The studies reported in this paper represent an effort to assess the attitudes of inservice and preservice teachers toward the open classroom. Three instruments are described which were used as pretest and posttest measures of attitudes of participants in a one-week Open Education Workshop. The instruments are: (1) a Likert-type attitude scale…

The report provides statistical data on the evaluation of an in-service career education workshop. The workshop comprised five content sessions dealing with: concepts and applications of career education to public schools; application of career education to public education and to teacher preparation; career education concepts and applications to…

The papers and other materials in this volume are an outgrowth of a conference held in Philadelphia in April 1975. Directors of Reading from six major Eastern urban centers presented information on exemplary reading practices and programs within their cities. The first paper discusses the Comprehensive Instruction Program and the Atlanta…

This is the leader's guide and training materials for conducting workshops on an instructional system which utilizes the process of inquiry. The guide is designed for leaders of these workshops and lists the leader's activities. It is organized according to the 18 major workshop experiences, referred to as subset. Each subset guide is organized…