Many programs designed to improve youth career planning and development processes face several limitations. To improve such methods such rationale are necessary: (1) make explicit the assumptions underlying these programs; (2) describe the planning methods and criteria for deriving youth goals and performances objectives; (3) specify desired youth…

The two subjects of this paper are: (1) the development of the training consortia concept, and (2) the process employed during three visits to evaluate each of three training consortia now in operation. The training consortia have as their goal the training of personnel to work as members of collaborative teams in the areas of educational…

IN THIS COMPILATION OF ABSTRACTS OF 78 DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND MASTER'S THESES PREPARED AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY IN ADULT EDUCATION AND RELATED FIELDS, 48 PERCENT COME FROM THE FIELD OF EDUCATION (EDUCATION, HOME AND FAMILY LIFE, AND SOCIAL WELFARE), 6 PERCENT FROM PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY, AND THE REMAINDER FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS. RESEARCH…

This guide was the first of its kind for public supported Resident Outdoor Environmental Education Programs (ROEEP) in California. The document contains an instrument which will identify the strengths and possible areas of improvement for specific resident outdoor environmental education programs. The instrument and procedures were field tested.…

A pre-planned team approach to educational change is described to maximize the chances that education majors and public school students willfully receive the types of improved learning experiences new curricula and organizational innovations promote. Public school and college change agents participating in an action lab sponsored by the…

The Standards and Goals Project has undertaken cost analysis of halfway houses in order to analyze and estimate the costs of implementing correctional standards, and to provide cost guidelines and cost estimation techniques for use by jurisdictions. The first volume: (1) provides a brief background on the Corrections Standards relating to halfway…

The Rand Corporation's Change Agent study suggests institutional and process factors (local materials development, on-line planning, and staff training) that could guide the development of a relevant and useful evaluation model for career education programs. These factors and their implications for evaluation are discussed. (BP)

Bibliographic references list 300 randomized field experiments undertaken to study programs in schools, hospitals, prisons, and other social settings. The bibliography provides evidence supporting the feasibility and the broad scope of randomized field tests conducted by economists, sociologists, psychologists, and educational researchers.…

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Webster College in St. Louis was instituted in 1965. This article outlines the program's original objectives and the changes that occurred. It traces this process in aesthetic education while simultaneously describing the skill profile of an MAT graduate in aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

Corporate preretirement counseling programs are a potential source of employee retirement preparation, but the authors conclude from studies of present and planned programs that most are too narrow in scope. (MF)

Examines the criteria that characterize successful preschool programs for handicapped children--programs that are coherent and that include an explicit rationale in their statement of goals, of their utilization of time, materials, and training. (Author/RK)

AGE's Title VI-B artists in the classroom program is providing direct services to students and helping teachers become comfortable with the arts as tools for teaching, as well as supporting the importance of the arts in their own right. (Author)

Presents a case study describing a program design model and implementation of a conference to facilitate the personal and professional growth of training and development professionals who have been working in the field for at least five years. (EM)

The administrator of a recreational program needs to constantly evaluate that program to be sure it is accomplishing the objectives for which it is established; while objective and subjective evaluation on the part of leaders and participants are valuable, factual computerized data are also a reliable tool. (JD)

In 1965, the California legislature created a new Vocational Educational delivery system entitled "Regional Occupational Centers and Programs." Discusses the effects of that legislation and its unanticipated consequences. Also discusses some other career education models. (Author/RK)