This report defines the concepts and some of the problems of accountability and performance contracting with special emphasis on measurement problems in the latter. Measurement problems involve both the validity and the reliability of standardized achievement tests as a basis for reimbursing a contractor. The author suggests the use of criterion…

Realizing that program success depends on the support the program receives from the users for which it was designed, personnel involved in the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) have designed an inservice training model to help educators develop skills required for implementing career education programs in the classroom. Phases of the…

Anticipated changes in work requirements for counselors are presented. The Tavistock group relations conference is suggested as one avenue for developing skills in understanding the nature of group behavior and the consequences of the exercise of authority. (Author)

While there is a substantial trend toward competency-based methods for training counseling personnel today, this movement faces three obstacles. After discussing these problems, the authors report on the development and field testing of two sets of competency-based training materials. (Author)

Offers suggestions and a model for implementing an inservice program for teachers on the instructional applications of microcomputers. Reviews the guiding principles of the model and identifies the conceptual understandings, technical skills, and application skills needed by educators for educational computing. (ML)

E. Paul Torrance's Instructional Model uses an integrated approach to teach thinking skills and creative productivity along with subject content for gifted students. Thinking skill objectives include such skills as developing originality, keeping open, imagining the future, using movement, etc. Two sample lessons apply the model to creative…

Presents a theoretical framework for designing computer-based systems that guide students in learning strategy selection; compares theories for determining when system-assigned strategies will promote knowledge and skill acquisitions; reviews relationship between learning and instructional strategies; and outlines potential applications of…

Presents a model to aid in development of an integrated multidimensional curriculum for medical education designed to deal with humane considerations. Six dimensions of the human experience--intellectual, emotional, social, physical, aesthetic, spiritual--are outlined, and developing curriculum objectives and the model's advantages for curriculum…

Reports that although the traditional domain of developmental lag models has been dyslexia, this type of model is actually more helpful as an aid to understanding the normal achievement variations found among nondyslexic children. (FL)

A growing number of cultural, educational, and social service programs around the United States report success in reducing teenage school drop-out rates, unemployment, substance abuse, and pregnancy. Facilitators of these programs claim that long-lasting impact requires not only informing young persons about the real dangers of such behavior, but…

The program demonstrated in this paper, "The Classroom Behavior Record: School Version," is an alternative approach for training personnel in observational skills, designed for educators and health care professionals. The purpose of the program is to provide efficient and effective training in a flexible, learner-centered, hypermedia format. The…

Old titles, abrasive words and a rigidly compartmented education are scrapped in this proposal which bases education on function and provides for ladder progression. (Editor)

Instrumentation, methodology, and analysis techniques were developed to measure changes in adolescents' (N=10) skills in linear distance estimation. Microcomputers were used to present and control amount of information available to assist students in said estimations. Results and implications are reported. (Author/SK)

Describes a short-term group counseling approach to use with physically disabled clients that combines assertion-training with attitude clarification and information approaches. Discusses rationale for the program and describes the coping skills group model. Details purposes and activities for each of 10 sessions. (RC)

A task analysis model for analyzing and teaching community living skills to the mentally handicapped was developed and validated with five moderately retarded youths (ages 17 to 20 years) who were taught mending skills (sewing hems, buttons, and seams). (Author/DLS)