An eight-course curriculum in social policy analysis which follows a policy analysis paradigm is proposed. The undergraduate curriculum concentrates on the ability to appreciate and operate under uncertainty; anticipation of interrelated, unexpected ramifications of new stimuli; understanding of the social construction of problems and their cures;…

This monograph is the report of a project designed to bring alternative means of addressing classroom instruction, curricular offerings, and departmental administration to tradition-bound departments. Section one contains an overview of the project, describing the organization of project, describing the organization of project teams that…

The handbook contains eight chapters on aspects of the education of multiply handicapped, hearing impaired children. Chapter 1, by R. Nowell, presents a service delivery model for the education of this population. In Chapter 2, Nowell and S. Landino discuss psychosocial assessment procedures and instruments. T. Frank and C. Chorney survey…

A model for living learning centers and practical and philosophical considerations that face residence educators who wish to implement the concept are examined. The issues addressed in this guide are designed to promote further discussion and research into the development and applications of the living learning concept on today's college campus.…

This guide documents cost effective methods of providing community-based alternative court intervention services to youth. The service program was designed to assist adolescent status offenders and their families in resolving the underlying problems which bring the youths to the attention of the juvenile system. A Family Crisis Intervention Center…

This paper describes a model for the systematic design, development, and validation of alternative instructional modules, by incorporating the basic concepts underlying Aptitude Treatment Interaction (ATI) analyses. The proposed working model is based on the premise that the ATI concept is best applied, not in isolation, but as an integral part of…

The structure and foundations of educational evaluation activities are explained. Evaluation theories are divided into descriptive or empirical, and normative. Descriptive theory is defined as explaining phenomena, rather than being based on normative premises. It is referred to as educational evaluation analysis and is classified as a social…

Materials are presented which were used for a consulting/linkage skills training program. The program is divided into three phases. In phase one, various training techniques such as presentations, case studies, role-playing, and simulations are used to lead the participants through a series of knowledge-increasing and skill-enhancing activities.…

The development and implementation of a Re-Entry Model designed to facilitate and monitor the adjustment of high school students returned to public school from a county commitment facility is described. Transition and follow-up procedures implemented through the model with a liaison teacher at the commitment facility school designated as the…

This paper describes the Administrators' Needs Assessment Model (ANAM) intended to determine needed elements of staff development and administrator training. The model correlates three areas: value (the priority assigned to a particular area of knowledge by the school district), gaps (weaknesses in the individual administrator's competencies, as…

Described are components of Project FAST (Functional Analysis Systems Training) a nationally validated project to provide more effective educational and support services to learning disordered children and their regular elementary classroom teachers. The program is seen to be based on a series of modules of delivery systems ranging from mainstream…

The Unified Studies Program began at Boston State College in September of 1974. Its model is based on team-teaching, learning contracts, small interdisciplinary seminars, and other open-classroom and unified educational learning/teaching techniques. Boston State College had been compelled to shift its academic assumptions because of financial…

The Development and Implementation of a District Computer Education Program conducted at Glasgow High School, Newark, Delaware, was designed to model full utilization of computer services in a public high school. The phases of the project included: (1) development of goals and objectives at the district level; (2) workshops for teacher training;…

This publication is intended to aid educational planners in developing nations in translating national goals and aspirations into educational objectives and in establishing and quantifying priorities among educational objectives. Much of the content is based on a model for setting educational objectives that was developed in Indonesia in 1972. The…

Using the center/satellite strategy (developing professionals equipped with traditional counselor skills, but who would focus on developing a better system), the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) Pupil Personnel Service Development Institute trained Chicano teachers as bilingual counselors. Based on feedback from participants and…