Outcomes of the State Department of Education project at Petersburg City and Radford City, Virginia were the development and implementation of an elementary school and eighth grade level career awareness program (including primary and intermediate special education), improved guidance and counseling service at the elementary level, and the…

A project to assess needs of educable mentally retarded (EMR) children and adults in three Florida counties reports findings and recommendations. EMR population findings show that many of the 224 EMR students have language deficiencies, and that most cluster at 11 and 15 years of age; recommended are early intervention, language programs, and…

A project constructed a Computer-based Test Development Center (COMBAT). It involved the development of instructional objectives and test items and their storage in a computer system from which they could be available to teachers. Project record data, questionnaires, and interviews were used to determine if the objectives were achieved, what the…

Presented is the 1972 annual report of a Title VI-B project to develop and coordinate a comprehensive exceptional child program in the north rural Florida counties of Hamilton, Madison, Suwanee, Taylor, and Lafayette. Given are the following eight project objectives: cooperation between two or more counties to employ a special education director…

Research explored methods of providing a coherent framework for the Instructional Systems Development (ISD) model which would promote better system evaluation, internal communications and student testing. Lists of critical tasks for two Air Force specialties were compiled and multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis employed to…

This is the final report of a study that examined paraprofessional influence on student achievement and attitudes and on paraprofessional performance outside the classroom. The paraprofessionals studied were those employed in the New York City public schools and supported by district decentralized ESEA Title I and New York Urban Education Quality…

In this report, the results of analyses of data from ESEA Title I Program evaluations collected in the 1969 Survey of Compensatory Education are presented. These data analyses bear on the evaluation of the operations and impact of the programs in 9236 school districts and 3219 elementary schools, involving 215,995 teachers of 5,733,976 pupils in…

An evaluation is made of the efficacy of various approaches to early childhood education when tested in the natural laboratories of operating schools, and the Follow Through program's impact on achieving social changes and ameliorating effects of poverty through education. Judged primarily from data collected during the 1969-70 school year, Follow…

The objective of the Industrial Arts Curriculum Project (IACP) was to develop, refine, and institutionalize a new and relevant 2-year junior high industrial arts program. The study focused on "industrial technology," the knowledge of management, production, and personnel practices used by men to produce goods to satisfy their needs…

The project was developed in the fall of 1969 to field test and evaluate prototype social studies units for kindergarten, and grades one, two, and three. The units focused on major concepts drawn from the social sciences, expanding horizontal organization of content, shifting from a basal textbook to a series of supplementary materials, and using…

Phase I of this National Book Committee study surveyed existing educational media selection facilities and examined programs at the state, regional, and local levels. Facilities were located and identified, and their successful components were evaluated by means of questionnaires and on-site visits. This final report contains an introductory…

This report includes a description of the Frostig as a total instrument and an overall analysis, as well as separate analyses and descriptions of each subtest. A brief summary of the experimental design and sampling plan also is included. A summary of the AEL Early Childhood Program is available as PS 004 889. (Author/NH)

A study was conducted to provide and test an evaluative model that could be utilized in providing curricular evaluation of the various career programs. Two career fields, dental assistant and auto mechanic, were chosen for study. A questionnaire based upon the actual job performance was completed by six groups connected with the auto mechanics and…

The authors of this planning review claim that educational research and development has been underfunded, has had less than distinguished standing in the scholarly and scientific community, and has had little national leadership. They assert that the National Institute of Education (NIE) is intended to bring about an improvement on all three…

This 5-year study evaluates the first diploma nursing program in Canada within an educational institution, that of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. Various factors affecting student and Ryerson graduates performance are studied to answer two questions: (1) What type of nurse is being prepared through the Ryerson nursing program, and (2)…