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West Virginia Coll. of Graduate Studies, Institute. – 1978
Through support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, a model for providing graduate programs to full-time employed adults residing in remote locations of southern West Virginia was designed by the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies, a college that does not have a campus. The essence of the delivery model was to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Autoinstructional Aids, Cost Effectiveness, Course Evaluation
Ryan, Charles W.; And Others – 1977
A project was conducted to (1) demonstrate comprehensive career education in grades K-12 of the Bangor, Maine, public school system and (2) demonstrate to teacher educators at Husson College and the University of Maine the concepts, philosophy, and methods of comprehensive career education. (See CE 019 623 for the performance report.) Based on the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Denton, William T.; Kleck, Wil – 1977
The K-12 Urban Career Education Infusion Project of the Dallas (Texas) Independent School District focused on fourteen schools located in the East Oak Cliff Subdistrict, a predominantly (98%) black community. Conducted in two phases, the project attempted to demonstrate that through infusing career education into the existing curriculum, trained…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Career Education, Community Attitudes
Nelms, Harry M. – 1979
A program developed and implemented a competency-based model to ensure that adult vocational education students were functionally competent. Preliminary steps included a review of research on existing practices, exploration of operating programs nationwide, and development of a reciprocal liaison with the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
KISHKUNAS, LOUIS J. – 1967
APPENDIXES TO THE "FINAL REPORT," VOLUME I (VT 005 511), ARE INCLUDED--(1) A SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, (2) TECHNICAL BEHAVIOR CHECKLISTS, (3) PERFORMANCE INVENTORY FORMS USED IN ON-THE-JOB OBSERVATIONS, (4) REPORT FORM FOR TYPICAL JOB BEHAVIOR OF EMPLOYEE, (5) COOPERATING AREA HEALTH INSTITUTIONS, (6) TABLES OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Allied Health Occupations Education, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Pennsylvania Advancement School, Philadelphia. – 1969
This report of the Pennsylvania Advancement School is based on its activities covering the period September, 1967 through June, 1969. The School is an experimental, curriculum and staff development institution whcih has seventh and eight grade underachieving boys from Philadelphia public and parochial schools as its student body. In addition to…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Relations, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
South Carolina Region 5 Educational Services Center, Lancaster. – 1971
Developed as a multi-county effort, this project sought to design model career education programs involving: (1) Elementary Orientation, (2) Work Experience, (3) Intensive Teaching, (4) Curriculum Development for Underachievers, and (5) Placement and Followup. In addition to improving and evaluating vocational education at the 11th and 12th grade…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Knox County Schools, Knoxville, TN. – 1972
This report summarizes the activities accomplished during fiscal year 1972 by an exemplary career development project serving 2,424 elementary and secondary students, 108 teachers, and 180 parents. The activities are listed and described according to whether they were primarily project, elementary, middle, or secondary school activities. Some of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Involvement
Broderius, Bruce W. – 1976
The final report of the exemplary project in vocational education, which ended June 30, 1976 in the Greeley area of Colorado presents, reviews, and evaluates the efforts toward career education implementation in the curricula of Weld County School District Six, the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) College of Education, and the UNC Laboratory…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Mercer County Community Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1995
Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and six small businesses used federal grant money to develop a model program of workplace literacy that would assist 600 adult workers with inadequate basic skills in performing their jobs. In analyzing the overall skills of the work force, the literacy audit identified these basic skills/literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Erie City School District, PA. – 1996
The Jail to Job program was developed to prepare soon-to-be released inmates of the Erie County Prison to seek employment and/or vocational/educational training. Forty-five inmates were assessed to determine their educational and ability levels, interests, and values. The inmates attended an 8-week (32-hour) course on the following topics:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anger, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills
Williams-Robertson, Lydia – 1992
This document describes Project A+, a cooperative school and privately funded program designed to assist the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in becoming an exemplary school district by the year 2000. The project is divided into four components. The curriculum development component presents three new curricula piloted in AISD schools in…
Descriptors: Biology, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Support, Curriculum Development
Center--Resources for Education, Des Plaines, IL. – 1998
This document is the final report of a demonstration project during which the corporation First Chicago/NBD and a local education agency developed and delivered basic skills training to the corporation's nonexempt work force. The report describes the following key project activities: basic skill needs analyses for various customer services…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Banking, Basic Skills
Peppard, Judy – 1991
This resource guide is the outcome of a 1989-1990 survey of school practices and programs that was distributed to all middle-level principals in Wisconsin public schools. The purposes of the survey were to assess the extent of middle-level programming in Wisconsin; highlight some needs in a school improvement effort; and share promising practices.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Community Services, Curriculum Development
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1986
"Celebration of Excellence" is an incentive program, administered by the Connecticut State Department of Education, that salutes excellence in teaching by honoring Connecticut public school teachers who have developed exceptionally creative curriculum projects and implemented them successfully in the classroom. This catalog is a…
Descriptors: Business Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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