The television component of each of the four courses offered to date by the Universtiy of Mid-America and the State University of Nebraska is by design an important instructional element of the course. Enrollees in the courses were surveyed for their opinions. Generally the course television components have been considered to be both helpful and…

The booklet contains political education materials drawn from Wisconsin state and Federal government legislation, newspaper articles, and publications from political interest groups and educational organizations. The main purpose of the document is to help educators design and implement political science and citizenship education programs in…

This evaluation of the Twin City Institute for Talented Youth, a summer program for gifted students in grades 9 through 12, consists of two parts: a description of the program; and the evaluators' assessments, including advocate and adversary reports. Achievement tests were not used for evaluation. Evaluative comments follow each segment of the…

This curriculum guide was developed to help administrators develop a competency-based postsecondary curriculum to prepare students for employment in business and office occupations. The content is in five sections. The first one introduces the concepts and techniques of competency-based education and includes some sample forms, such as student…

To determine the need for the development of a vocational education program in solar energy, an advisory committee considered opportunities for solar energy technicians and the need for the development of training programs and curricula and formulated recommendations for a program and curriculum. They concluded that the immediate need for persons…

Selected data are summarized for students enrolled in the 1979 summer credit programs of six Hawaii community colleges (Honolulu, Kapiolani, Kauai, Leeward, Maui, and Windward). Enrollment in the credit and non-credit programs totaled 7,180. Of these students, 39% were in regular credit programs; this percentage represents a 6% decrease from the…

Video, textual, and audio components of the third module of a multi-media, introductory course on Human Services are presented. The module packages, developed at Miami-Dade Community College, deal with technology, social change, and problem dependencies. A video cassette script is first provided that explores the "traditional,""inner," and "other…

A study was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College (Florida) that involved: (1) establishing 14 objectives for a general education art course; (2) pre-testing 471 students enrolled in the course using an instrument referenced to these objectives; (3) conducting individual conferences with four instructors of the course to assist them in…

Curricular considerations concerning extension education to primarily adult and part-time students are discussed with emphasis on courses offered for credit. Some historical notes on land-grant colleges are presented. Seven conditions under which off-campus public-service-oriented (directed to the general public) instruction becomes a curricular…

This packet contains information and materials for conducting a training workshop for working with adults who are developmentally disabled. The materials are specifically designed to train volunteer teachers in the College for Living (CFL) program, which supplements residential programs in and around Denver and aids institutions in orienting…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College of Living, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Wardrobe II. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to eventual…

This general curriculum model for adult and continuing education courses offers theoretical and practical models that provide a framework within which adult educators can make informed decisions about curriculum planning. Chapter 1 introduces the general curriculum model and its various elements. The following five chapters describe and explain…

Background information is provided concerning the efforts of Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), under the sponsorship of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to form a national consortium of two-year colleges for the development of Human Resources programs aimed at training chemical substance abuse workers. The report first presents…

Educational innovation in Switzerland is discussed according to complexity and flexibility of educational policy, the amount and nature of innovations, and the place of Swiss educational innovations in international education. Areas in which innovations have occurred include school organization, course content, and teaching objectives and methods.…

This manual describes a classification system for classifying and recording client problems requiring nursing intervention and offers a plan for its implementation. Part 1 discusses the development of the method, described as an orderly arrangement of a nonexhaustive list of client problems diagnosed by nurses. Problems are divided into four…