The Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) is a statewide program designed to ensure that all students attending public colleges and universities have the basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills necessary to perform effectively at the college level. All entering first-time freshmen are required to take the TASP test, which has a basic skills…

This document is intended to assist individuals responsible for completing the annual development plan required of all community-based adult literacy programs seeking funding from Manitoba's (Canada) Literacy and Continuing Education Branch. A sample development plan is presented to illustrate the initiative, reflection, and planning needed to…

Prepared as a companion to a 1996 California Community College plan for family and consumer sciences (FCS), this resource packet provides materials to help faculty, administrators, counselors, and other educators understand the elements of the plan, sharpen their focus on the dynamics of FCS programs, and increase support for programs at their…

Prepared as a reference for staff development coordinators in California's community colleges, this five-part handbook presents information on program planning and implementation, state requirements, and available resources. The first section provides background information on the state's staff development programs, highlighting their role,…

This document reports on a project conducted at the University of North Texas to create inservice professional development programs for postsecondary coordinators of special populations education. The project created six 2-day regional training workshops, a series of sample student learning activities, and an updated training manual, using a…

This issue contains five articles about assessment in adult literacy programs. The first article, "Living Literacy: Rethinking Adult Learner Assessment" (Susan L. Lytle), focuses on developing alternative forms of assessment such as literacy portfolios to identify changes in four dimensions of adult literacy over the course of literacy…

Designed to assist secondary and post-secondary educators develop community interactive science programs, this manual describes steps undertaken at New Mexico's Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute to develop pre-college medical science programs that encourage local high school students to consider the college's medical technology program.…

Collaboration has become a pervasive strategy for systemic change in human services, education, government, and community agencies. Collaborative partnerships require a change in thinking and in operating. Such changes can be intimidating or threatening. In addition, other barriers must be overcome to make partnerships work. Examples of successful…

This book is intended to assist school administrators, special education teachers, rehabilitation administrators and counselors, case managers, other employment and community living providers, and parents to understand the developing and changing programs at the local community level which provide transitional services for young people with…

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the collaborative development and implementation of local interagency councils to coordinate services for young children with disabilities, as required by Public Law 99-457, Part H. Section I presents five chapters on foundations for interagency collaboration. Chapter 1 reviews collaboration as a part of…

A project was conducted to provide staff development workshops about adults with learning problems to agencies throughout Pennsylvania. Workshops and accompanying guides on nine topics ranging from understanding learning differences, problems, and disabilities to alternative instructional techniques were developed. Workshops were conducted…

This report summarizes and analyzes a 5-year initiative undertaken by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to provide: first, comprehensive leadership development programming to presidents, administrators, and faculty of private historically black colleges and universities; and, second, a series of…

The purpose of this report is to provide guidance to teacher education institutions that are developing programs in educational computing and technology to assist them in preparing folios for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) program evaluation. Those institutions with teacher preparation programs resulting in…

This volume, the last of a six-part report, is a guide that provides an overview to the Building Villages series. It discusses the need for comprehensive programs, and examines the corresponding need for change in the family-services framework. It sets forth the organizing principles of family support as the movement grows from a program to a…

In response to re-accreditation recommendations, East Tennessee State University is devising and implementing a plan to use faculty evaluations for the improvement of faculty and the educational program. A task force developing the plan has outlined three major projects: (1) establish baseline data on current status of faculty development efforts…