The 1-year project, Career Education in Rural Arizona (CERA), was designed to provide a broad career orientation and realistic exploratory experience for students in a rural farming area covering 1,500 to 2,000 square miles. The project used career education instructional units, available through various educational information centers, which were…

The 76th Legislature authorized the Texas Education Agency to develop and conduct educational technology pilot programs during the 2000-2001 biennium. The purpose of the pilots was to use innovative technologies to deliver curriculum and improve student learning. The programs, implemented in 13 Texas school districts, utilized 28 different…

Describes and analyzes a pilot social work education program in the mental health of older women. It discusses developmental activities related to planning, implementation, and evaluation of the model. The preliminary outcomes of this five-year project may offer some guidelines and alternatives for training professionals. (Author)

A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of "A Preventive Curriculum for Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia" is reported. The evaluation, which included teachers, researchers, health professionals, and students, included development of the curriculum as well as pilot testing activities. The curriculum development and evaluation consisted of…

Discusses the Technology Enriched Schools Project (TESP) in the Netherlands that was developed to stimulate the use of computers in secondary education and describes efforts to integrate computers into all curriculum areas in two pilot schools. Inservice training is described, and results of teacher questionnaires regarding computer implementation…

A week of labor education classes is held yearly at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California. The goal of the program, called Labor Education Week (LEW), is to fill a perceived gap in high school education concerning the labor movement, and to present labor history and issues in workshops, field trips, classroom discussions, and films.…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal consistency reliability of the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) when the measure is administered to naive subjects as a pretest. The SoCQ was developed by G. E. Hall, A. A. George, and W. L. Rutherford (1979/1986). In the present study, the SoCQ was administered to secondary school…

A pilot of the third grade "Math Their Way" program was conducted in eight classrooms in five Portland (OR) elementary schools during the 1983-84 school year. The eight teachers selected by principals expressed interest in participating in the pilot. The pilot teachers were supported by year-long inservice training conducted by the…

This report on the pilot training phase of the Community-Based Criminal Justice Staff Development Project represents an attempt to describe and document project efforts during the months between October, 1975 and June, 1976 with a view toward providing a detailed guide for future implementation of staff development activities for community-based…

Significant characteristics of the guidance program are reviewed and materials developed, staff preparation, tryout procedures, and implementation and evaluation plans are described. To try out evaluation procedures, a random sample of 505 students in grades 7, 8, and 9 in six schools provided data for (1) measuring student choices relative to…

A driver education program which integrated professional in-class instruction with parent-supervised on-road driving practice is described. Major sections deal with instructional materials development and pilot testing. The program was planned in two levels: MP (model program, with full parental participation including meetings with instructors)…

The five social studies pilot programs used in the first year (1968-1969) of the SPEEDIER Project were continued and expanded to include more schools, teachers, students, and grade levels. During the Spring of 1970 it was possible to add three short-term pilot programs with only a few teachers involved in each. These pilots were: 1) American…

Beginning in September of 1968, a series of orientation meetings were conducted to establish a field test network and to introduce the Social Learning Curriculum to interested teachers. Phase 1 of the Curriculum was distributed and the system for evaluation was explained. During this period the project could determine the amount of time teachers…

The evaluation of Phase 2 consists of quantitative ratings and qualitative comments collected through the use of an Evaluation Booklet (124 returned). Quantitative data were gathered for the teaching procedures used for each lesson; they included ratings of materials, preparation, teacher information, purpose, and teacher actions. Qualitative data…

The evaluation of Phase 3 consists of quantitative ratings and qualitative comments collected and presented in the same manner as the data in the evaluation of Phase 2 (SO 000 157). In this case, however, only 100 Evaluation Booklets were returned. SO 000 138, SO 000 139, SO 000 140, SO 000 141, and SO 000 156 cover other facets of the curriculum…