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Download full textCharles County Board of Education, La Plata, MD. Office of Special Education. – 1981
The booklet describes the conceptual approach and operation of the evaluation plan used by Project CAST (Community and School Together), a community-ased career education program for handicapped students. Three levels of evaluation are proposed for providing data for both formative and summative evaluation; these levels are: (1) effort evaluation,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Resources, Formative Evaluation, Mild Disabilities
Peer reviewedHalpern, Andrew S.; Benz, Michael R. – Exceptional Children, 1987
The statewide (Oregon) survey of special education administrators, high school special education teachers, and parents of mildly disabled high school students investigated four areas of special education services: focus/content, discrepancies between availability and utilization, barriers to mainstreaming, and conditions required for improvement.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, High Schools, Mainstreaming
Peer reviewedPhillips, Vicki; McCullough, Laura – Exceptional Children, 1990
The article discusses conceptual principles which underpin development of consultation-based programing for students with mild disabilities, proposes informal standards for ecological evaluation of specific formats, and identifies factors (such as administrative support and participatory planning and decision making) that maximize the potential…
Descriptors: Administration, Consultation Programs, Delivery Systems, Educational Methods
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
The report documents the evaluation of a New York City program, the State Incentive Grant to Improve Pupil Performance, in which high school special education teachers received training in general education curriculum and instructional techniques to fulfill a new regulation allowing high school special education students to meet general education…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedBenz, Michael R.; Halpern, Andrew S. – Exceptional Children, 1987
The study of Oregon's secondary special education programs for the mildly disabled surveyed 143 administrators, 323 teachers, and 279 parents. Among results were that few districts used written interagency agreements to involve community agencies; that teachers wanted more and better parent involvement; and that follow-up of previous students was…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agency Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Followup Studies
Affleck, James Q.; And Others – 1987
The final report describes The Realistic Transition Project, a 3-year project designed to help mildly handicapped 17 to 21-year-olds in the transition from school to competitive employment. Social skills necessary for seeking and maintaining employment and money management skills were two important curriculum components. Specific objectives and…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Interpersonal Competence
Ross-Gordon, Jovita M.; And Others – 1990
The Services for Transition to Independence through Education (STRIDE) project evaluated a model for providing comprehensive training and employment services to adults with mild handicaps, using existing vocational education classes and special needs support programs in a secondary vocational technical school in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Services…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
