This resource guide for career education programs presents separate sections with innovative learning activities and resource ideas for kindergarten and the elementary grades, the middle and junior high school grades, and for high school and adult education. Ideas for evaluating career education programs are given for each level, together with…

The Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children (REPSAC) is an educational intervention for 30 "high risk" bilingual children of ages 3, 4, and 5 in Clovis, New Mexico, and a similar group of children from Portales. Subjects were selected on the basis of various language handicaps, perceptual and motor problems, and educational…

The Quality Assurance Model for Process Evaluation has been developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory. It provides educational administrators several alternative techniques for maximizing desired terminal behaviors. By working with project directors, the evaluator helps to assist the program's implementation, providing…

Developed through a college curriculum department, this publication provides vocational teachers with a practical reference on problems relating to educating disadvantaged students. The underlying theme is that the teacher is the major factor in the success of any program for the disadvantaged. Several aspects of the problem are considered,…

A discussion and application of the Appalachia Preschool Test (APT) are presented. This test was developed to supplement the standardized instruments in use to measure program performance. It consists of two principal subtests, an introductory interview, and a section measuring logical reasoning and reading skill achievement. It is noted that the…

A report on the evaluation Workshop to define school objectives is presented. The three-week workshop in defining and measuring objectives in the areas of interests, attitudes and values was held at Emerson School in Elmhurst, Illinois. Some questions studied by the workshop group include the following: Can interests, attitudes, and values be…

This study is concerned with the effectiveness of teacher aides in the eight Indianapolis Model Cities Schools as perceived by themselves and others. These paraprofessional personnel were hired for two basic purposes: (1) to provide additional help to teachers and children in the classroom, and (2) to provide career opportunities for a limited…

The need of the professions to update is studied. It is pointed out that the half-life in a professional's competence is the point in time after the completion of training when he had become roughly half as competent as he was upon graduation. Obsolescence is defined as a reduction of efficiencies of performance over time. It has been found to…

This paper reports on a project conducted in the Spring of 1975 which included field interviews and observations in ten bilingual education programs in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The purpose of the study was to gather data which would facilitate the preparation of a framework and an instrument for evaluating community involvement in curriculum…

In August 1973, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) announced its decision to close the Intermountain Indian Boarding School since its enrollment had declined from 2,150 to 800 students. This decision was based on two reports which gave the following reasons: adequate facilities existed at schools on or near the Navajo Reservation to meet the…

The Philadelphia School District's Consumer Education project aims to teach consumers to spend their money more wisely. Services offered by the Consumer Affairs Education Services staff included workshops for teachers and parents, support for individual teacher and faculties through liaison staff members, materials from and the use of the resource…

This report surveys the opinions of parents, students, teachers and a few administrators regarding various aspects of the Family Life Education program at Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia. The results indicate that parents and students were generally in favor of the content of the course but would like to see family…

This paper describes the formal and informal processes used to evaluate vocational education programs, examines their impact on appropriations, priorities, and policy recommendations, and addresses the question of what policy options for vocational education Congress ought to consider as it confronts legislative renewal. Several criteria are…

This 1974 examination of Massachusetts state colleges developed a report centering on six areas of concern in teacher education. (1) "Reform and Renewal"--an examination of factors promoting or hindering renewal resulted in proposals to establish projects exploring alternative structures and processes and to evaluate the results for replication.…

An integral part of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs has been the evaluation of these programs in terms of attainment of increments of gain in reading and mathematics. One of the most widely used methods of analyzing pre and post test norm referenced data has been the six-step historical regression procedure. This…