This curriculum guide is designed to offer guidelines along with supporting resources and teaching ideas from which the local postsecondary instructor can extract a machine shop curriculum that meets local needs. Following an outline of the philosophy and goals underlying state and local vocational education programs in Georgia, the purpose and…

A project identified those skills that are necessary for disadvantaged youth to make a successful transition from school to work and disseminated resource materials for use in helping vocational educators plan and develop school-to-work transition skills development programs. Data from a literature search and interviews with vocational educators…

A project was conducted to develop a curriculum for training interpreters to use American Sign Language (ASL) to serve the deaf. The three-phase project involved (1) a task analysis to catalog the skills needed by interpreters and location of existing materials to determine areas where material needed to be developed; (2) development of a model…

This manual is intended to guide Kentucky vocational educators in designing and implementing a program of occupational and English language instruction that will efficiently and sensitively meet the special needs of students with limited English proficiency (LEP). The step-by-step guide aims to identify teachers' existing capabilities that may be…

A Postsecondary Demand Survey was undertaken in 1972 to study the demand for postsecondary education in Manitoba, Canada, and to develop a system for forecasting enrollment at postsecondary institutions. The survey objective was to establish a profile of grade 12 students in 1972 to learn about their aspirations, plans, expectations after…

A variety of ecological, economic, and social changes are now reshaping rural America. The deterioration of the economic structures and perceived quality of social life in large metropolitan centers of the United States has stimulated the dispersal of population and economic resources throughout rural America. During the last decade almost three…

This document provides descriptions of 32 model adult vocational education programs to assist Connecticut vocational education administrators in planning programs to strengthen the basic skills aspect of employment training for adults. The model programs represent the result of a search of the Educational Resources Information Center indexing…

The report analyzes trends in research and programs in special education. Twelve reviewers from each of the divisions of The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) reviewed abstracts of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) documents (project reports, research reports, and conference presentations). The ERIC documents resulted from a…

The impetus for developing a model to retrain women teachers and skilled women to become teachers in traditionally male-intensive secondary vocational education has emerged from a combination of problems and issues. The most pertinent of these involve the factors of supply and demand, coupled with the need to reduce sex stereotyping and bias in…

A study was undertaken for the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation to develop evaluative criteria and procedures for the accreditation of nontraditional education. The summary report presents the major activities and findings of the study. The Introduction gives its history and background and outlines its scope, including the goals,…

Based on the assumption that during the next quarter century the academic labor market will be chronically depressed, a project was undertaken to create models for projecting college faculty demographics. In this report the statistical models and the results of their application are explained in detail, including extensive statistical tables.…

This report summarizes the development of a model career education program called CERES (Career Education Responsive to Every Student), which was designed to infuse career education concepts into elementary and secondary school curriculum and to articulate a curriculum structure to aid students in career choice and preparation. Following an…

To reduce the narrowing effects of sex-role stereotyping on the career options of secondary students, a project was conducted using curriculum activities and experiences with nontraditional role models in school and community settings. The vehicle for meeting this goal was the existing Jefferson County (Colorado) experience-based career education…

This survey examines post-secondary plans, aspirations, and characteristics of twelfth grade students in order to develop a medium range enrollment forecasting model of postsecondary education and to develop a data base on high school student aspirations. The survey is the third year of a three-year project undertaken in Manitoba, Canada.…

The Alberta Vocational Center (AVC) developed a portable competency-based learning system for use in non-institutional adult basic education community programs. The system addresses needs identified by the 1971 census which found 28% of Alberta's residents (over fifteen and out of school) had less than a ninth grade education. Administered through…