The Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Educational Services Office has sponsored an ongoing external evaluation of its regional exchange program since fiscal year 1979. Findings from this evaluation helped support the decision to adopt a state consultant model strategy for all four of the office's educational programs. The model involves…

This report presents (1) information on the incidence, causes, development, transmission, control and prevention of parasitic infections and (2) a report of how Hawaiian Follow Through Students infected by parasites were identified and provided with treatment. The students were enrolled in kindgergarten through third grade classes at three…

In searching for ways to provide continuing education in the humanities, community colleges can look to the various state programs sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities which, since 1970, have taken humanities education out of the traditional library/classroom environment and into non-traditional settings, such as school…

An account of five years of activity during which the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) worked with the United Kingdom's Adult Literacy Campaign is provided in this book. Much of the book is in the form of a diary that gives an account of the progress, mistakes, and doubts of the broadcasters as they worked with a wide range of agencies,…

A description of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) precedes an examination of the CETA network. The three fold purpose of CETA is (1) to establish a flexible and decentralized system of federal, state, and local programs; (2) provide job-training and employment opportunities for the economically disadvantaged who are unemployed,…

This booklet, the fourth in a series of eight reporting on the tenth-cycle Teacher Corps program conducted by the University of Nebraska and the Lincoln Public School System, describes the rationale behind the selection of a competency-based teacher education format as major program emphasis and the development of twenty-three recommended…

Several working papers and a guidebook to the Comprehensive Planning Process of Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools have been collected to form this document. The process itself was developed in 1979 and will be pilot-tested during the 1981 fiscal year. These materials, therefore, constitute an interim report on a process yet to be cast in…

There is a lack of systematic methods for effective implementation of meaningful consumer and community participation, which is a major factor contributing to critical deficiencies and imbalances in the planning and implementation of human services programs. A constituency-based approach for the development of service acquisition systems is…

The purpose of this paper is to facilitate the continuation of the steering committee at Hopkinsville Middle School after the Teacher Corps Project is completed. It was the general consensus of teachers and administrators that the committee served a valuable function in developing and implementing successful inservice programs. A report is given…

The School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an overall design for districtwide program assessment and development. It is both a way of interrelating planning and evaluation of individual programs and a way of comparing the outcomes of all district programs with the district's community-defined educational goals. Component…

The document reports on a training program to equip a variety of educational personnel to deal effectively with a population of severely/profoundly handicapped young children. Section I describes the program in terms of the problem, the need, and goals and objectives (which include the development of training materials which enhance the…

Results-Oriented Supervision (R.O.S.) is a system for teacher supervision that focuses more on instructional improvement than on teacher evaluation. The supervisor and the teacher join together to formulate teaching objectives. After a period of implementation, a postconference is held to assess and restate or renew objectives. In the school…

In this summary of research projects funded by the Office of Research and Development (ORD) of the Employment and Training Administration, only projects completed between July, 1975 and September, 1978 are listed. Projects and publications presented for program planning and administration, programs and techniques, the labor market, and economic…

The University Council for Educational Administration's internal evaluation of its National Level Internship Program was designed to perform two functions. First, it was intended to help the program improve itself as it went along. This involved use of intervention methods stressing the potential for the evaluation process itself to influence what…

This paper describes the proceedings of a meeting of 20 student personnel professionals, practitioners and educators from across the U.S. They met to develop a conceptual organizational pattern for establishing student development programs. The paper describes not only some of the outcomes, but also the process by which they evolved. It was felt…