This report describes the 2-year cooperative education demonstration project conducted in three colleges of the San Mateo Junior College District (California). The project, involving all academic disciplines, offers co-op students three plans: (1) alternate class attendance and a full-time job in conjunction with another student on a semester…

The effect of predictive solutions on training time (speed) and subsequent performance in a complex manual control system was investigated. A control system with a slow and complex response to the input signals was formulated. Fifty control operators, 25 with the aid of predictive solutions and 25 without, were tested; the mean performances of the…

Drawn both from relatively early sources and from the work of contemporary writers, these 48 papers encompass the purpose, problems, and potential of the correspondence study (CS) method. Essays by William Rainey Harper and William Lighty on the nature and origins of CS are followed by descriptions of four early experiments in taking instruction…

Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, offers a program toward a bachelor's degree by attending evening classes exclusively. During visits made to personnel directors of firms employing 50 or more persons, complete presentations of the entire program were made. Registration was done by mail. Some students received reimbursement from firms,…

This study evaluated the educational needs of older adults in three congregate facilities in Indiana as a basis for reshaping existing educational programs and designing new ones for residents of these and similar homes. Subjects (166 residential and ambulatory occupants of the three homes) completed a questionnaire on demographic data, expressed…

This study sought Fiscal Year 1969 data on Navy enlisted time and costs (including officer candidate training) from initial personnel procurement through appropriate basic training (Class A) for 80 general and/or service ratings, as well as in advanced and/or specialized training, for a sample of 1,067 Navy enlisted classifications (NECs). Such…

The Fund for Adult Education (FAE) was established by the Ford Foundation as an independent organization in 1951 and existed for a decade; its purpose was to support programs of liberal adult education which contribute to the development of wise and responsible citizens for a free society. In the first year, the Fund began a program of study and…

As part of a 2-year study conducted by the American Country Life Association on leisure and recreation in relationship to country life in America, their forty-fourth annual conference dealt with leisure time, its development and its effects on society. The proceedings of this conference contain papers and discussions dealing with many facets of…

A series of 10 Community Action Guides was developed to assist public officials and community leaders in establishing comprehensive outdoor recreation programs. The importance of providing parks and recreation facilities in metropolitan areas and the importance of protecting the natural environment are emphasized. Methods of organization,…

In June 1969, some 61 businessmen of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, were personally interviewed to determine the feasibility of establishing a standard supervised cooperative part-time education program for the students of the area. Thirty-six beginning jobs were available, with nearly half being in distributive occupations. The remaining openings were…

A tool for staff involved in scheduling for the small high school, this guide takes a look at priorities, schedule design and implementation, building the master schedule, and research approaches for better scheduling. Specific teacher and student responses to various schedules are tabulated. Methods of data analysis are presented with samples of…

Described is the Complete Help and Assistance Necessary for a College Education (C.H.A.N.C.E.) Program established at Northern Illinois University for minority students who had not met the traditional admission standards of ACT score and class rank. Instead, these students were selected on the basis of their motivation, their leadership, and…

The influences of two different instructional techniques--media adjunct programing (MAP) and traditional instructor classroom (TIC) methods--upon several variables were examined. These dependent variables included student learning and retention, state anxiety, state curiosity, time-to-criterion, and student and instructor attitudes. Matched groups…

Teachers of occupational education need to be continually updated to be aware of the technical changes taking place within occupations in their area of specialization if they are to make occupational training situations more like the real job. The objective of the study is the development and implementation of a system of inservice work experience…

A research project was designed 1) to compare student-controlled to program-controlled computer-assisted instruction (CAI); and 2) to evaluate the effect of reading a lesson narrative before training. A 2x2 design was used to investigate the influence of the two pretraining and two training conditions on performance scores and training time.…