How is upper secondary education organised across OECD countries? This level of education, which most frequently serves students aged between 15 to 18, is generally the first time when learners have significant capacity to shape the content of their learning, for example by opting for general or vocational education, choosing their subjects and…

This thesaurus is designed to provide the vocational education community and its relevant audiences with a comprehensive, organized listing of outcome questions and hypotheses. The first of two sections includes a discussion of the importance as well as problems of attempting to develop a classification system for categorizing vocational outcomes.…

The modular curriculum for agricultural education was developed and refined by teachers and consultants to meet student needs for a more flexible type of curriculum in which the student's occupational goals would form the basis for program planning. The module--a unit of curriculum based on the development of entry level competencies--contains the…

Outstanding teachers developed the collection of industrial education program and course goals contained in the document. Breaking from the traditional material orientation of industrial education, the authors developed a taxonomy of processes involved in the application of concepts. Although the collection provides concise statements of what…

In conjunction with a national study on the induction process for beginning vocational teachers, researchers developed a general conceptual framework for the classification and analysis of teacher-related phenomena. The framework, called the Teacher Proximity Continuum, has proved useful in analysis of negative influences, positive influences,…

The document is comprised of a large collection of program and course goals developed by outstanding teachers, together with a taxonomy of health education (which serves as a table of contents and provides an overview of the topics in the subject area) and several indexes to which the course goals are coded for reference: health education program…

A collection of program and course goals in business education, developed by outstanding teachers using available models and guides, together with several indexes and a business education taxonomy which serves as a table of contents and provides an overview of the topics in the subject area, comprise the document. The goals state concisely what…

A large number of home economics program and course goals developed by outstanding teachers using available models and guides is presented in the document. The collection contains concise statements of what students can know and can do in the major content areas of home economics learning, and in the areas in which home economics relates to values…

THIS VOLUME IS DESIGNED TO DEFINE, FROM AN EDUCATIONAL POINT OF VIEW, THE PROBLEM POSED BY SLOW LEARNERS. IT PRESENTS THE CLINICAL EDUCATION APPROACH AS A TOOL IN THE PLANNING OF SOLUTIONS RELATING TO THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF PROVIDING AN APPROPRIATE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE FOR THE SLOW LEARNER THROUGH CURRICULUM PLANNING. PART ONE FOCUSES ON THE…

This document contains the three volumes of the technical report for development of the prototype of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), which is intended to replace the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles.""General Introduction" (Norman G. Peterson) presents an overview of O*NET's purpose, content, and structure.…