Reliable and current data is the foundation upon which good public policymaking is built. While California collects a good deal of data on its teaching workforce, policymakers have lacked a state-level data and analysis system to provide answers to even some of the most basic questions: How many credential holders actually take jobs? In what types…

The objective of this report is to present a design model which will serve as a pattern for the development of a vocational education professional development program to be implemented in a state agency of vocational education. The model delineates the procedural requirements for determination of priorities, assessment of personnel needs,…

A two-year project to systematize the occupational teacher approval record-keeping and planning procedures for the Massachusetts Office of Professional Development (OPD) for the Division of Occupational Education is described. A project overview discusses the problems of the system and objectives arrived at to solve them, including the improvement…