Since 1970, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), in Washington, D.C., has conducted programs to train and place disadvantaged women in nontraditional jobs. The results have been record-breaking: high placement rates, high job retention rates, good starting salaries, and upward mobility for women who seemed doomed to a life of poverty and…

These materials illustrate the ideas presented in the "Guide for Foreign Languages in Utah." Learning activities, materials, and evaluation procedures have been written to help the language teacher who has never had a methods course, as well as the experienced teacher who is searching for new ideas. The materials begin with a basic unit similar to…

Information on the educational systems of 52 foreign countries and recommendations for student placement into U.S. graduate programs are presented. For each country a diagram is presented to illustrate the demarcations between primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, and explanations are provided on grading systems, secondary school certificates,…

Data collected from 19 state education agencies through questionnaires and interviews focused on special problems and approaches in rural areas for complying with four major aspects of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act: individualized education programs (IEPs), least restrictive environment (LRE), procedural safeguards,…

This guide is intended to help vocational educators learn more about adult women's life experiences and the skills, knowledge, and abilities they develop through them. It also shows how to assess experiential learning to provide better career counseling and give academic credit or improved course placements. Chapter 1 overviews life experience…

These materials illustrate the concepts presented in "The Guide for Foreign Languages in Utah." Three model lessons, in elementary, intermediate, and advanced placement Spanish, are presented as a means of illustrating the practical application of the teaching goals and techniques outlined in the Utah "Course of Study for Foreign Languages." The…

This learning module on establishing a student placement service and coordinating follow-up studies is one of six competency based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It discusses the rationale and objectives for a school-based placement service. Topics discussed include assessing…

In the study involving 180 second and third grade teachers the effect of a student's sex or race on recommendations for placement in special classes for the educable mentally retarded was determined. Ss were randomly assigned to one of four groups: Group 1 received a case study depicting an Anglo-American male; Group 2 received a case study…

Kirkwood Community College, with an enrollment of 4,200 full-time students, received Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) funds to address the problems of (1) the lock step nature of most of its occupational programs, (2) an attrition rate of approximately 15%, (3) once-a-year placement of graduates, (4) employer and…

A follow-up study of the first two graduating classes (1974 and 1975) of the School of Technical Careers (STC) Baccalaureate Program was conducted. Questionnaires were sent to eighty-seven graduates (of ninety) who had United States addresses on file. Questions pertained to current labor market status, current occupation, first job after…

A cloze informal reading inventory (CIRI) was constructed from a basal reading series and administered to all 120 second through sixth grade students at a university laboratory school to determine if CIRI was as effective as a traditional informal reading inventory (IRI). All students scoring below second and above eighth grade on the IRI were…

In March 1977, the New Jersey Board of Higher Education created the New Jersey Basic Skills Assessment Program. To direct the program, the Board created the Basic Skills Council, which was charged with developing a test in reading, writing, and mathematics for all freshmen entering all New Jersey public colleges and universities. The purpose was…

The study identified characteristics and innovative approaches employed by exemplary vocational education programs in serving the disadvantaged in co-op, self-contained, and mainstreamed settings (secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels). Forty-one states, three territories and the District of Columbia responded to the request for three program…

The development of the portion of a basic skills test that would adequately assess the writing ability of entering college freshmen in New Jersey is described in this paper. The stages of the test development process that are discussed include the decision to incorporate a writing sample in the form of an essay on a specified topic, the selection…

To analyze test item and person interactions according to the Rasch Model, 822 incoming community college freshman were administered the New Jersey Basic Skills Placement Test. The Logical Relationships and Elementary Algebra subtests were chosen to examine the effect of differing average item difficulty on descriptions of fit statistics and on…