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Marks, Joan – 1979
The purposes of this report are to assess the need for federally supported curriculum development in education, and if there is a need, to determine appropriate policies for conducting development and supporting implementation. The assessment is based on the national curriculum development projects that have been sponsored since 1956 by the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Penn, Phillip D. – 1978
BORN FREE is a project designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This report describes the evaluation of the five-day 1978 National Summer Institute, a staff development training workshop for educational leaders.…
Descriptors: Careers, Educational Cooperation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Leadership Training
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Eigeman, Elaine G., Ed. – 1977
Fifty-six current Indiana vocational programs for the disadvantaged and handicapped are abstracted and summarized for use by State and national educators and administrators. Each abstract contains the project title and number, the developing county and school's name and address, the name of the contact person, total budget costs, type of program…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth, Handicapped Students, Indexes
Social Studies Development Center, Bloomington, IN. – 1979
The Mid-America Program for Global Perspectives in Education (MAP) was developed to prepare global curriculum materials, hold conferences for teachers, cooperate with other educational agencies, and help educational programs adjust to realities of a fast-changing world. Initiated in 1974 with a grant from the Lilly Foundation to the Social Studies…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
MCKEE, JOHN M.; SEAY, DONNA M. – 1965
INMATES WERE EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS IN A PROJECT FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND PLACEMENT. OF THE 46 WHO COMPLETED TRAINING IN MAY, 35 WERE PAROLED AND EMPLOYED, AND 11 WERE AWAITING PAROLE CONFIRMATIONS. A SECOND GROUP WERE ENROLLED. TO OVERCOME SOME STUDENT WEAKNESSES, A REMEDIAL NIGHT SCHOOL CLASS WAS INITIATED. THIS PROBLEM COULD BE ELIMINATED BY…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Material Development
Jones, Charles I.; Lawson, Patricia – 1977
The project was designed to develop and test instructional packages from a selected list of 149 competencies (identified in a separate study done by North Carolina State University) needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. The packages were designed for use in West…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Competency Based Education, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Education
Portland Public Schools, OR. – 1974
The report describes the Roosevelt High School (Portland, Oregon) demonstration project designed to integrate health career education into an existing State-required health education program. The report's first section briefly presents background project information. Section 2 assesses the project's accomplishments with respect to staff…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs
Sandhofer, Richard G.; Nichols, Jack L., Ed. – 1968
Automated audio visual vocational training courses for duplication machine operator and janitor occupations were developed for poor learners to use in rehabilitation centers, state hospitals, etc. Program development included: (1) surveying pertinent literature in the field of program learning of occupations, (2) visiting business and industrial…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, Experimental Programs
Schiefelbusch, Richard L.; Lent, James R. – 1975
Presented is the final report for Project MORE (Mediated Operational Research for Education), a program to create a full-scale operational system for developing product prototypes (methods and materials packages) for teaching personal appearance and hygiene skills to the trainable mentally retarded child. Reviewed in part I is the history of the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Demonstration Programs, Exceptional Child Research, Females
Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO, Tokyo (Japan). – 1990
The main objective of the seventh regional workshop was to provide training experience to participants from Unesco member states in the development of instructional neo-literate materials and the expansion of participation in literacy activities to the needs of the rural people, particularly women. The final report begins with an account of the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Family Life
Association for the Development of Computer-based Instructional Systems. – 1982
This collection of 116 papers begins with 5 presentations on the general theme of computer literacy and intelligent computer assisted instruction, and covers a wide variety of topics related to training and education at all grade levels. The remaining papers are divided according to special interest group categories: (1) computer-based training;…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Literacy
Bras, Monique – 1977
The origins, development, and organization of a set of instructional materials entitled "La Francophonie" at North Carolina Central University are described. The project grew out of American students' disaffection for language learning in the mid 1960's and the narrow focus of much college-level instruction. The program consists of two…
Descriptors: Educational Television, French, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
Towne, Violet A. – 1990
At the request of General Electric-Utica (GE), the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome and the Mohawk Valley Regional Education Center for Economic Development have developed a program to train GE software development personnel. GE is involved in the development of aerospace electronic equipment and related software…
Descriptors: Aerospace Industry, Computer Software, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Ford, Faye, Ed. – 1983
This book describes 119 award-winning projects from a program which established a national teachers' competition to select and disseminate superior teacher-planned and developed programs which use photography as an integral part of the K-12 school curriculum. All subject areas, grade levels, and states are represented in summaries of projects that…
Descriptors: Awards, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1984
The purpose of this directory is to list by country, the UNFPA-funded and Unesco-assisted organizations engaged in population education in Asia and the Pacific. It includes information on the scope of population education programs in the region as well as activities and accomplishments in the field. The directory has two parts. The first part…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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