This document, which is intended for adult educators and others interested in developing and delivering a workplace education program, provides an overview of workplace education. First, workplace education programs are defined as programs in which adult learners are taught basic skills by using the functional context of their jobs and a…

Emphasizing the role of the school and the State Education Department in addressing students' needs, this handbook provides administrators planning secondary school programs with an outline of the New York State curriculum. An introduction describes general characteristics of secondary students and addresses the schools' responsibility to respond…

The paper represents the Office of Education's first comprehensive conceptual statement on career education. It discusses such aspects of career education as conditions for educational reform, a rationale, a definition, basic concepts, programatic assumptions, initial implementation of career education tasks, learner outcomes, and educational…

Article examined the provisions typical of pass/fail plans implemented in several high schools in this country to determine if these provisions are likely to enhance accomplishment of the objectives of the pass/fail grading innovation. (Author/RK)

Article considered reasons why projects are attempting to involve parents in child development. (Author/RK)

We in continuing education must define and refine our philosophical commitments based on our parent organization's philosophy, the mandates from professional organizations, and our own professional value systems. (Author)

Discussed the Learning Activity Package, a method for creating effective individualized programs. (Author/RK)

Article cited reasons for the phenomenal growth of IGE. Included were the advantages for teachers, administrators and students. (RK)

The Pre-Professional Laboratory Experience course is a semester-long early field experience involving prospective teacher education candidates in routine classroom activities and observation experiences on the elementary and secondary level. The set of handbooks which was developed to accompany the course includes a student handbook, a supervising…

Described a program designed to improve each student's ability to discriminate sounds, increase listening skills, improve the use of oral English and indirectly to improve reading abilities (vocabulary and comprehension). (Author/RK)

Article discussed instructional organization with the focus on the characteristics and implications of four alternatives to the traditional pattern of concurrent courses. (Author/RK)

Article described an innovative program, recently developed into a permanent department at Triton College, which stirred student motivation and learning experience. (Author/RK)

This document is the initial description of the specifications of the philosophies, procedures, and processes for secondary schools to use in planning, implementing, and managing Individually Guided Education (IGE) learning programs. This is specified in a target format. Also delineated is the general and specific developmental strategy the…

This paper poses a systematic change process for secondary schools that will enable them to achieve individualized and personalized learning for students. Included in the process are a perspective on change, planning issues and elements, a strategy for planning, a target/timeline framework, and a sequence for change. Finally, a pupose-oriented…

This paper explores problems of construct validity in the evaluation of the Follow Through Planned Variation program. Comments center around political ramifications of the program evaluation design, insufficient knowledge on the part of program planners, the diversity of the experimental options, and the instability of the sample. It is suggested…