Presented are program assessment checklists to be used as guides for planning, implementation, and improvement of educational programs for handicapped children. Separate checklist formats are provided for the following handicapping conditions: severely health and physically impaired; physically handicapped; visually handicapped; multiply…

This paper discusses some of the problems posed by external testing, including the social and racial complexities and the serious intellectual issues raised by the nature of a "standardized" examination. It is argued that these and other problems are likely to intensify to an unprecedented degree during the next several years as a result of…

Evaluated were opinions of 10 teachers and 10 nonteachers on educational placement of children with such handicaps as orthopedic, visual, and speech problems. Analysis of questionnaires yielded the following information: the major differences centered on placement for the emotionally disturbed, hearing impaired, orthopedically handicapped, and…

The Washington Pre-College (WPC) Testing Program, together with experimental tests administered in Spring 1969, was analyzed to instigate a new guidance system for high school juniors and seniors. Initially, WPC employed predictors established on an already selected intellectual group. New test predictors were needed to match the complexity of the…

General screening policies and procedures for identification of exceptional children in Mississippi are described including aspects of philosophy, definitions, legal provisions, regional screening teams, and the organization of special education classes. The screening processes for the specific handicaps of mental retardation, learning…

The register of children (under 20 years of age) with impaired vision and hearing provides the number of children in deaf blind programs, other educational programs, at home, and in institutions for the mentally handicapped for the academic year 1968-9. Additional information on the 777 handicapped children registered by the American Foundation…

The position statement from the National Association of Retarded Citizens specifies areas of study and competencies needed by evaluators who generate or interpret psychometric data used in classification and placement decisions regarding mentally handicapped persons. Guidelines focus on academic degrees and licensure; recommended areas of study…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to attempt to identify the characteristics of community college students and to recognize the implications for student personnel services; (2) to delineate the functions of student personnel services; and (3) to describe the characteristics and training needed by student personnel workers. (Author/SGM)

Four tests, the Oral Placement Test, and Oral Production Test Levels I, II and III are designed to measure auditory comprehension, oral production, the ability to ask questions and conversational skills. The instruments are appropriate for use in adult basic education programs. The placement test can be used to place students at various class…

Placement services are vital if the community college is to fulfill its promise of helping individual students identify their potential in the world of work. Little has been done to facilitate a student's task of successfully implementing his college training in the occupational marketplace. Several papers from a workshop of the Northwest…

In discussing the recent legislative influences on the identification and placement of children in programs for the mentally handicapped, the author presents a brief overview of the development of the concept of special education as indicated by significant court rulings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Major legal decisions…

Two programs were introduced at Moraine Valley Community College (Illinois) in an effort to assess, evaluate, and assign hour equivalency credit for the non-traditional learning experiences of mature vocational and technical students. Equivalency credit was granted for performance on the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), military service,…

CORRESPONDENCE STUDY GUIDES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE PREPARED IN THE SUBJECTS OF MATHEMATICS, ENGLISH, AMERICAN HISTORY, AND EUROPEAN HISTORY FOR AN ADVANCED COLLEGE-PLACEMENT PROGRAM. INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM WAS MADE WIDELY AVAILABLE TO HIGH SCHOOLS IN NEBRASKA. BY THE FALL OF 1965, HOWEVER, IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THE NUMBER OF…

The promise of law reform in this area is real: it imposes formal rationality on school sorting practices, provides heretofore excluded handicapped youngsters with some educational services, and provokes both publicity and the appearance of change. The peculiar nature of the problem and certain structural and organizational attributes of present…

Uses the placement practices of one school as a base for discussing placement practices and due process required under the regulations for Public Law 94-142. (IRT)