This report is a description and summarization of the Child Development Associate (CDA) competency-based training approaches designed and implemented by 13 federally funded pilot training projects. Chapter I provides a historical narrative of the program design and implementations in the first seven years of the CDA program. Chapter II describes…

A family education program based principally upon reading is outlined in this paper. Following a discussion of the program's background and of proposals for its expansion, the paper describes booklets used in a campaign designed to help parents understand their role in their children's education. The following section outlines new methods of book…

Intended for use by visitors to the Demonstration Schools in Individualized Instruction (DSII) network, this guide provides the following information: lists of members of the DSII steering committee and service center contact persons, explanations of the DSII and of Project CITE (Coordinated Information for Texas Educators), a visitor's checklist…

The purpose of this study was to construct a model for the design, development, and direction of continuing education programs for registered nurses at John C. Calhoun Community College. The model was based on data from various professional conferences; a review of the literature on continuing education in general and concepts of learning theory;…

The development of the Technical Assistance Program for Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) and its attempts to implement the provisions of the CMHC Act Amendments of 1975 are presented. The process by which funds for this program are allotted, the recipients of the allotments, and how they have used them are described. In addition, guidelines…

The communication department at Western Michigan University has organized its program around a humanistic philosophy of education that places first priority on concerns related to student growth. The department views communication as those processes by which individuals, groups, organizations, and societies develop and function. The understanding…

The paper describes a 5-year longitudinal study of a Texas school district's implementation of an individualized mainstream special education program. "Plan A" program activities and outcomes are reported for five phases (sample subtopics in parentheses): initiation in one high school, one junior high school and eight elementary schools…

Designed as a technical resource, this paper provides information related to adoption of National Diffusion Network (NDN) programs in urban districts with populations in excess of 300,000. Data were drawn from a survey mailed to all NDN participants in early 1978, and are presented in four sections, mostly in the form of graphs, tables and charts.…

A project was conducted to assist post-secondary vocational-technical teacher educators and staff development personnel in improving staff development programs in two-year post-secondary institutions. Thirty-one applicants were selected to participate in a national workshop. These applicants included vocational-technical teacher educators and…

The proposed system for implementing new uses of telecommunication satellite technology is user-driven, addressing the needs of employed health personnel who would not otherwise have access to university resources, especially women, members of minority and disadvantaged groups, handicapped persons, and persons in rural areas. The plan, which…

Project P.A.V.E., serving senior high schools in Texas, focused on four areas crucial to the education of handicapped students: parental involvement, academic achievement, vocational programing, and extracurricular opportunities. This report describes the administrative arrangements of the program, and evaluates the results of the program for…

The Preprofessional Program's objectives for increasing minority student participation in the health sciences are outlined in this report. Steps taken by the program to meet each of the objectives are briefly described. Data collected during the last year of the program are presented for such areas as class composition, students' career interests,…

A review of the legal basis for and a model of operationalizing definitions of handicapping conditions is presented along with a trend analysis of the association between operationalized criteria and stability in incidence rates. The role of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), Public Law 93-380, and Section 504 of…

A Teacher Corps-sponsored survey of a rural town in northern Maine is described. The survey was intended to investigate the feelings of town citizens regarding their own lives, the town in which they live, and their school. It was intended to disclose the need for day or foster care centers, to find out about the levels of educational attainment…

This manual describes how to set up and operate a pretrial intervention program for female first offenders which offers an intensive career counseling service and puts emphasis on placing participants in nontraditional jobs. Divided into three sections entitled--The Way It Is; What You Can Do; and How You Assess It--the guide gives an overview of…