This monograph highlights the elements of four victim-assistance programs which demonstrate the range of services currently being offered. It provides a preliminary look at the impact of such programs and points out where more information is needed. Major topics include victim and witness services and monitoring thereof. The two goals of…

This report summarizes the findings of a one man-month study of the current status and future direction of instructional computing in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Public Schools including computer assisted instruction, computer managed instruction, computer assisted problem solving, and data processing education. The report is presented in six…

An education service center providing inservice programs to constituent school districts acted upon a recommendation that an independent evaluation component be added to their center for the purpose of improving their programs. This report of the first-year experience with the evaluation component is divided into four sections. The first section…

Focusing on the improvement of graduate programs in vocational education, this monograph is organized into two sections. Section 1 reports the results of a survey initiated by the National Resource Panel of graduate programs in vocational education in the United States. Section 2 contains working papers used in a workshop which addressed the…

The document presents the recommendations of the Superintendent of Schools of New York City to the Board of Education for programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Title I, during 1967-1968. Briefly described are 22 proposed projects, including budget estimates. Also included are summaries of the evaluations by the Center…

Annotations for this 16-item bibliography on audiovisual FLES French courses include details on the aims, content, method, texts, visual aids, coordinated activities, and testing possibilities for each course, as well as listings of course components and their costs. General comments at the end of each course description indicate special features…

This report is an evaluation of the College Discovery and Development (CDD) Program Prong II, operated jointly by the New York City Board of Education and by the City University of New York. This compensatory education program prepares disadvantaged students for college entrance and for success in college. The major purpose of this evaluation is…

The final report documents activities of a 3-year child abuse and neglect demonstration unit in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The history of the project is reviewed along with the following project components: organization/staffing, case identification, coordination, community education, professional development, case management, research and evaluation,…

Provided is general information on the inservice components and the models of inservice delivery utilized by Project T.H.O.R. (Training Habilitators of the Retarded). The prevocational and socio/psychosexual components of the project are listed, and the following are outlined: rationale; relationship to other inservice components; objectives;…

This report is an evaluation of a selected New York City Umbrella program funded under a special grant from the New York State Legislature. The program, which served eighty children in two Brooklyn schools, focused on the early identification of learning problems and the remediation of these problems in first and second grade children in each of…

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation to help institutions of higher education develop course-related library instruction programs for students in undergraduate science programs. The third volume of the annual report for 1976-77 continues with appendix four, i.e., the texts of documents referred to in the proceedings of the…

An extensive self-study has provided considerable information about the guidance and counseling services in the State College Area School District. Appropriate personnel have stated 21 objectives for these services as well as recommendations to implement these objectives. The latter deal with: (1) providing adequate and continuous guidance and…

The collection of program summaries is organized according to the six primary program categories represented in Continuing Education Training Programs: (1) physicians, (2) psychiatrists, (3) behavioral scientists and allied professionals, (4) nurses and related personnel, (5) social workers and related personnel, and (6) interdisciplinary…

This lengthy document describes a Career Achievement Skills Training (CAST) program, implemented in Pontiac, Michigan, a highly industrialized city of 120,000 located approximately 30 miles from Detroit. The purpose of the program was to deliver career achievement skills to selected K-12 students. Through the skill processes presented in the CAST…

Five high schools and three middle schools participated in a career education project conducted during 1974-75 in the Catholic Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island. The program was designed to aid students in the development of maximum awareness of self and of community. During the first project year, an awareness of the concept of career education…