An assessment of the Gateway Writing Project shows that students whose teachers were trained in a five-week, intensive writing instruction project wrote somewhat better than students whose teachers were not so trained. (HOD)

Describes the Student Learning Center at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, which identifies and provides support services for high-risk courses, rather than high-risk students. Presents an evaluative research study of the supplemental instruction provided to an American history class and the effects of students' achievement and persistence.…

This paper describes an approach to the problem of teaching first-year tertiary level mathematics students who have widely varying levels of achievement and ability in mathematics. The evaluation of some aspects of the proposed solution to the problem is based on a semantic differential and a Likert-type questionnaire. (Author/MK)

This national study of 929 correctional facilities reports on the status of vocational education programs offered by 384 of the institutions. Also discussed are the 34 standards developed for planning and and evaluating correctional vocational education programs. (LRA)

At Wheaton College, juniors were matched with professional women who served as mentors or career advisors for the academic year. Most students received information about specific occupational fields or graduate schools and support from their mentors. Some benefited from personal information about the mentor's family, background, and life-style.…

Describes an inservice teacher education model used to aid teachers who work with mainstreamed special needs students. Also presented is an evaluation of the model. (LRA)

The second in a three-part series outlining Greenville Technical College's developmental studies program, this segment discusses the growth and functions of the Developmental Studies Division's counseling service, the Student Success Center. (Author/DR)

A project was conducted to develop an instructional model for a course in basic marketing. Topics for the course were identified, a literature review was performed, and a strategy was developed. It was concluded that such a model would improve methods of teaching and curricular design. (CT)

Sets forth the thesis that the competencies developed in special education teacher training programs should be evaluated in terms of the performance of the students served by the trainees. An overview of the evaluation of the field-based program at George Peabody College for Teachers (Nashville, Tennessee) is given. (SBH)

Competency-based educational programs are here to stay. Here the author describes the program underway in his school system. (Editor/RK)

One approach to achieving more particular guidelines for evaluation is to isolate one kind of extended campus program, in this case the extension of academic degree programs to military installations, to focus on its specific problems and then to base evaluation on an individual program's success in surmounting obstacles to academic quality.…

Presents minutes of a discussion meeting held by Shanghai university students to describe and evaluate an agricultural and technical correspondence program in which they had taken part. Ways of relating the correspondence courses to the needs of a socialist economy are suggested. (Author/DB)

The problems of student personnel workers are often compounded by inadequate planning, uncertain outcomes, and lack of accountability. The authors propose that management by objectives may provide a reasonable solution. (Editor)

The Childhood Education Program is a teacher education effort based upon long-term field experience, substantive areas of study (curriculum, methods, etc., taught over a long period of time) and a seminar that acts as psychological "home base" for socializing, problem discussion, suggestions, complaints, and recordkeeping. (MB)