A void exists between the rapid growth of post-high school trade and technical education and the development of educational management tools for that area. Hoping to help fill this void, this research effort concentrated on the development of psychometric instruments useful in measuring achievements. Trade and technical areas involved in the study…

The Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project was an experiment to assess the longitudinal effects of a 2-year preschool program designed to compensate for functional mental retardation found in some children from disadvantaged families. The program consisted of a daily cognitively oriented preschool program and home visits each week to involve mothers in…

Two months after participating in the Interpersonal Relations series of a continuing education project (See AC 008 840), public health workers in North Carolina completed a detailed questionnaire designed to ascertain attitude and behavior changes resulting from the project. Participants were asked to give examples of altered relationships with…

This report examines and summarizes the needs in mathematics of the Fresno City school system. The study is one in a series of needs assessment reports for PROJECT DESIGN, an ESEA Title III project administered by the Fresno City Unified School District. Theoretical concepts, rather than computational drill, would be emphasized in the proposed…

The project on which this document reports intends to (1) implement a three-year and a four-year sequential curriculum based upon developmental concepts, (2) change the traditional roles of the teacher and the student, (3) accommodate individual differences in children's levels and learning rates, (4) involve parents in the education and cognitive…

To explore and evaluate the feasibility of providing language instruction to parents of young deaf children in a home-like environment, a demonstration home was established at a clinic. Parents were invited to attend weekly meetings which were reduced to hour in length during the course of the project. Parents could bring other siblings, family…

A recognition of the need for improving vocational and technical education through strengthening the state agency of vocational and technical education led to the development of this instrument for a systematic analysis of state agencies. The three phases of analysis include: (1) a self-analysis by the state agency, (2) a visiting team's reactions…

This report summarizes the results of a 1967 survey designed to obtain a better understanding of the characteristics, duties, and opinions of the nation's elementary school principals. A questionnaire mailed to a national sample of 2,551 elementary school principals elicited a 91.7% response rate. These responses are described in 11 chapters…

The program of Literacy House in Lucknow, India includes training of personnel, preparation of materials, and sponsorship of a wide variety of programs. This report on their work, prepared to document the need for a budget request from the U.S. Agency for International Development, describes the achievement and prospects in programs relating to…

Capillary pulse pressure measurement may have potential as a covert but direct means of determining a subject's level of affect as he encounters the frame-by-frame content of programed instruction. An experiment was designed which called for recording the capillary pulse pressure of subjects as they worked through some programed instruction…

These conference papers on prospects for the future of Australian adult education concentrate on issues in rural adult education, postsecondary education by colleges of advanced education, international cooperation to meet the educational and related needs of developing nations, the future contribution of New Zealand universities to residential…

Designed to serve training oriented professionals, therapy oriented practitioners, and practicing managers, this book presents insights into the change process, along with problems contained in efforts to evaluate this process in management training and in therapy. First, the four essential strategic problems of evaluation are set forth: setting…

To determine the effectiveness of the CERLI program in Charleston, Illinois, for training a Specialist in Continuing Education (SCE), an attempt was made to determine whether the program had effected behavioral changes enabling the participants to function in this new role. Because of insufficient data and certain constraints, this hypothesis can…

This revised edition of the author's 1958 publication, aimed to "help teachers or language specialists make the transition from linguistic and educational theory to actual teaching practice," includes the following units: (1) Planning for Language Teaching and Learning, (2) Teaching English as a Second Language, (3) General Methods of Teaching,…

This document evaluates a resource room model for 10 educable mentally retarded and 15 mildly educationally handicapped junior high school students in Michigan. Discussed in the overview are curriculum organization, individual assessment, and remediation by two teachers in areas of mathematics, home economics, English, and science. Described are…