This document presents abstracts describing 25 needs assessment projects appropriate for a variety of educational levels. The abstracts provide an overview of each model as well as information on the developer, source, cost, copyright, procedures for use, implementation needs, and special features. (IRT)

This guide describes successful linkage activities and programs and discusses ways in which vocational educators and administrators can develop more effective linkages with labor unions. The first two chapters outline the purpose and procedures of the feasibility study on which the guide is based. Provided next are descriptions of 24 linkage…

This resource guide is designed to provide the reader with information about work experience programs in Rhode Island and other states. The first section consists of a prototypic model (which was developed in cooperation with educators and other personnel concerned with work experience programs) for making work experience-based vocational…

This compilation of abstracts summarizes the papers and symposia proceedings of the 2nd Convocation (1971) of the Northeastern Educational Research Association. Many topics in educational research are covered, such as: measurement, accountability, evaluation, instructional techniques, disadvantaged youth, testing, and special programs. A listing…

The 58 career education abstracts included in the document represent the projects selected for the second three-year round of vocational examplary projects supported by the Office of Education under the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968. In a standardized format, the abstracts provide information about each individual project. Abstracts are…

The proceedings of the conference on outstanding research and curriculum activities conducted by the various State research coordinating units opens with William W. Stevenson's brief examination of alternative research efforts. The remainder of the first half of the document consists of abstracts of the 15 presentations at the conference sessions…

This volume contains abstracts of 37 model New Jersey vocational programs that served disadvantaged students in fiscal year 1982. Included among the programs described are projects dealing with agriculture, agribusiness, the needs of pregnant teenagers, bilingual vocational business education, building trades, consumer education, work study,…

This document is intended to assist health care organizations in designing and implementing a school-to-career (STC) initiative within their organization. Section 1 presents an overview of STC that discusses the following topics: skills needed by the health care industry's future workforce; the definition of STC; special needs of the health care…