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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: a remedial reading program for Marine recruits; methods for improving reading flexibility and rate, spelling ability, vocabulary comprehension, and study skills in…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills
Knapp, Joan – 1977
A model for assessing and awarding credit for prior experiential learning is presented; the adult student's experiences are summarized in a portfolio. The model incorporates eight stages: facilitating the construction and assessment of a portfolio, identifying significant prior experiences, expressing the learning outcomes of prior experiences,…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavioral Objectives, College Credits, College Students
McClain, Shirla R.; And Others – 1977
This paper provides information on working with parents of culturally different youth. Four topics are discussed: 1) general information on culturally different paretns, 2) parenting culturally different children during the preschool years, 3) parenting elementary school youth from culturally different homes, and 4) parenting culturally different…
Descriptors: Activities, Adolescents, American Indians, Blacks
Bruwelheide, Kenneth L. – 1979
A study was conducted to identify and develop instructional aids in the form of physical apparatus that would permit students with physical handicaps and/or limitations to have greater access to laboratory-shop courses in Montana secondary schools. Steps taken in carrying out the study included the following: (1) identifying the physically…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Educational Legislation, Equipment Evaluation, Equipment Utilization
South Dakota State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. – 1978
The Charter is intended to help shed light on rural youths' transition from education to work, and results from the 1977-78 activities of eight rural councils of the Work-Education Consortium. Recognizing the wide diversity of definitions for rural and nonmetropolitan, and understanding that rural youth are faced with economic and educational…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Planning, Community Involvement, Community Resources
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1978
This status report outlines the progress of the California Community College Finance Project. Working papers, models, and alternative proposals are reviewed in four areas: mission and function, finance, governance, and management. Priorities in mission and function are stated in terms of the characteristics and educational needs of the nearly 1.3…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, College Administration, College Role
Miller, Susan W., Comp. – 1980
Resources are enumerated for community college personnel working with economically and/or academically disadvantaged students and with students who speak limited English. The document first provides operational definitions for these groups and then lists and discusses resources under the following headings: (1) needs assessment, (2) instruction…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Planning, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Dreier, William H.; Eastman, Robert D. – 1979
A two-day exchange between staff of the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls and the Burt Community School proved successful for all participants. The university team (professors, graduate students, and senior students who had completed student teaching) became responsible for the education of the Burt students while the Burt teachers and…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Experiments, Experiential Learning, Extension Education
Hellweg, Susan A.; Churchman, David A. – 1979
A model for an interdisciplinary graduate degree program based on the Behavioral Science Graduate degree program at California State University at Dominguez Hills is described. In light of the declining resources available to higher education institutions it is recommended that curricular programs be accountable and responsive to the needs of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, College Curriculum, College Faculty, Conference Reports
Faddis, Bonnie J.; And Others – 1979
Ninth grade Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation results in reading and English-writing projects were compared, using the RMC Model A with local empirical norms, Model A with national interpolated norms, and Model B. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS)--Total Reading and Total Language subtests--were administered…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1968
This description, based on experience with multiunit organization in Wisconsin and Ohio schools, constitutes a structural and procedural model for elementary school instruction and related environment. A background appraisal, provided as a context in which to view the new organization, takes the form of a paralleled itemization of the functions of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Beginning Teachers, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Joyce, Bruce R. – 1968
This description of a general program for the preservice preparation of the teacher-innovator, developed as a source of ideas for thinking about and recreating teacher education, is organized into four parts. Part 1 contains introductory chapters which present definitions of terms, a brief description of the program, and general considerations of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Decision Making, Democratic Values
Creamer, Don G.; Rippey, Donald T.
This paper defines student development education as a concept which refers to professional roles of administrators, instructors, and counselors in a competency-based learning system designed to enable students to become more of what they want to be. A student development model is delineated whose essential components include student goal setting…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Development, Change Strategies, Community Colleges
Johns, Roe L.; Morphet, Edgar L. – 1975
Educational finance policies have such a critical influence on every educational service and program, on the national economy, on the welfare of individuals, and even on the welfare of the nation itself, that educational finance cannot be studied adequately in isolation from our total social system. Therefore, the authors have used the systems…
Descriptors: Administration, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Court Litigation, Educational Economics
Rosenthal, Paul H., Ed.; Mish, Russell K., Ed. – 1974
This book is developed from the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the System Development Corporation. It presents a survey and a practical guide for formulating individual application requirements and forecasting future availability of data processing capabilities. Part I consists of seven articles covering…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science
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