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Herd, Ruby H. – 1978
A national study on Adult Functional Competency, conducted by the University of Texas, determined that less than one-half of the adult population (46%) was proficient in handling the demands of modern living. Educators have never done even an adequate job of educating the country's people. If the primary goal of the teaching profession is to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
Chern, Hermine J.; And Others – 1978
Evaluations of thirty career education projects in the school district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are contained in this report. Fifteen of the projects concern classroom or shop instruction, six concern development and/or field testing of curriculum materials, and the remainder involve staff development, installation of shop equipment, job…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Career Guidance, Cooperative Programs
Download full textHansen, Duncan N. – 1975
To what degree testing can become adaptive is considered in three ways: from a formal methodological perspective; from a human process, stability, perspective; and from a sub-system or component view within an adaptive instructional system (AIS). With the advent of large computer-based training systems, the opportunity to broadly implement…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs
Erie City School District, PA. – 1975
Information about the Erie Urban Network School Project as it has been functioning for the past two years is provided in this report. Designed (1) to meet the needs of the inner city child by aiding the professional staff through inservice, and (2) to understand the child, the community, the educational techniques best suited for him, this project…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Federal Programs
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1976
This report presents a brief summary of the full report of an evaluation of California schools receiving funds from three state and federal school funding programs in 1974-75. The evaluation was conducted by the California State Department of Education. Evaluated schools were funded through: (1) the Early Childhood Education (ECE) program, which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Statsky, William P. – 1974
Another in the series of paralegal training materials prepared by the National Paralegal Institution under a Federal grant, the document focuses on the interrelationship of paralegals, or legal assistants, trainers, and the basic principles of advocacy upon which later training in substantive law can be built. Part 1, Preliminaries of Training,…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs, Inquiry
Seidel, Robert J. – 1973
Optimization procedures for a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system were developed using iterative development and tests of a series of instructional decision models (IDM). The result was a total systems effort in which the instruction was carried on by a dialogue between a computerized tutor and the student. A profile of the student, student…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Sanford - Lee County Schools, NC.
The course on carpentry is divided into 14 sequential units, with several task packages within each, covering the following topics: carpentry hand tools; portable power tools; working machine tools; lumber; fasteners and adhesives; plans, specifications, and codes for houses; footings and foundations for a house; household cabinets; floor framing…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Cabinetmaking, Carpentry, Course Objectives
Glaser, Robert – 1968
Current educational practice has little status as a technological application based on an underlying science. A fundamental overhaul of approach should rectify this. Procedures should be systematically developed to effect change. Research findings should be readily available to educators, and teacher education should be restructured. Equipment,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Environment
French, Sally, Ed. – 1974
Southeast Alternatives describes six elementary and secondary schools -- the result of a 1971 proposal for Federal funding for experimental schools to bridge the gap between experimentation and actual school practice and for evaluation of the effort. Discussion of the mechanics of implementation, including organization, governance and finance, and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Discovery Learning, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs
Thompson, Nancy A.; Marx, Thomas F. – 1973
As a continuation of previous research, this project was designed to test the efficacy of a multi-media individualized program in Spanish. Spanish 2 students were divided into three groups, two experimental and one control group. One experimental group utilized the individualized approach in Spanish 1 and Spanish 2. The other studied traditional…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Diagnostic Tests, Experimental Groups, Individualized Instruction
Boozer, Robert F.; Lindvall, C. M. – 1971
Many programs for individualization of instruction are based on a curriculum structure involving a careful sequencing of instructional objectives and larger units of learning content. A methodology that may be useful in the formative evaluation of the sequential and structural properties among predefined curriculum units and specific instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research
Unruh, Glenys G., Ed.; Leeper, Robert R., Ed. – 1968
This report contains conference addresses that (1) deal with social and psychological forces influencing curriculum change and (2) discuss actual changes now taking place in a number of subject fields. Insights into the forces acting on the curriculum are presented by the authors of Part I. Arthur W. Foshay challenges educators to recognize the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design
West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Coll. of Human Resources and Education. – 1972
To design, develop, and implement an organizational structure for inservice teacher education and provide a continuing program for inservice leadership training in the Northern Appalachia Region for education in the technologies, a teacher educator program was established for training teachers as change agents within a comprehensive "teacher…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Change Agents, Developmental Programs, Educational Change
KROPP, RUSSELL P.; AND OTHERS – 1967
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WAS CONDUCTED ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN COGNITIVE APTITUDES AND VARIED INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENTS (TEACHING MATERIALS AND TEACHER METHODS) TO DETERMINE IF LEARNING DIFFICULTIES COULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY MINIMIZED BY ALTERING THE CONTENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENTS TO FIT THE COGNITIVE APTITUDE PATTERNS OF INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS. THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Audiovisual Aids, Chemistry
