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ROSENBERG, LEON A.; AND OTHERS – 1966
IN ORDER TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENCE TEST FOR PRESCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN THAT WOULD OVERCOME SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS OF AVAILABLE TESTS, A PERCEPTUAL DISCRIMINATION TEST USING POLYGONAL FORMS HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND TESTED. THE CHILD POINTS TO ONE OF TWO, THREE, OR FIVE FORMS MATCHING A STIMULUS FORM. INITIAL TESTING WITH 44 CHILDREN RANGING IN AGE FROM…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Handicapped Children, Information Theory, Intelligence Quotient
Rohr, Alice M. – 1968
Perceptual deficits in child development have been found to be very common in the underachiever. Such deficits can be identified and treated with training in coordination skills such as large motor, hand-eye, and auditory-speech. This paper reports an innovative training project in three New York state elementary schools. Subjects were selected…
Descriptors: Coordination, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Motor Development
Nolan, Hugh B. – 1967
An outdoor education program is described which has the philosophy that a direct experience is better than a vicarious one, and that the efficiency of education is increased in direct proportion to the amount of direct experience. An historical background which included pilot programs and experimental programs is discussed. Facilities, philosophy…
Descriptors: Background, Educational Facilities, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Nutting, Paul A.; And Others – 1977
Six Indian Health Service (IHS) units, chosen in a non-random manner, were evaluated via a quality assessment methodology currently under development by the IHS Office of Research and Development. A set of seven health problems (tracers) was selected to represent major health problems, and clinical algorithms (process maps) were constructed for…
Descriptors: American Indians, Data Analysis, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Criteria
Jones, Dennis; And Others – 1977
The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) has completed the development and demonstration of a library statistical data base addressing the management needs of academic and public libraries. A pilot test of the data base was conducted in late Spring of 1977 in five Pennsylvania academic libraries to determine feasibility…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Databases, Decision Making
Iowa Central Community College, Fort Dodge. – 1978
This final report contains materials and forms developed for the Iowa Career Education Articulation Model (K-14). Project goals were to design and pilot a career education inventory system to determine the impact of career education upon the students, to design a monitoring process system to assess the status of career education activities, to…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment
Counelis, James Steve – 1978
An evaluation of an undergraduate interdisciplinary team-taught course entitled "Technological Culture and the Human Prospect" is presented. The pilot course attempts to deal with (1) the need for curricular innovation, (2) the need for faculty development, (3) the need to build flexible curricula with greater sensitivity for student…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Human Factors Engineering
Martin, Larry; Morris, Joann – 1974
A product of Michigan's Indian Education Project, this report includes two proposals designed to help meet the educational needs of Michigan American Indian students at various levels. The first of the two feasibility studies includes: a perspective on Michigan's American Indians; problems of Indian education (priorities, roots of the problem,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Day Schools
Mestenhauser, Josef A.; Barsig, Dietmar – 1977
Addressed to foreign student advisers, this brochure presents the view that the changing times, domestically and internationally, suggest that foreign students are needed here for the education of our own students. It outlines a method by which foreign student advisers and others working with foreign students can provide such learning…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Foreign Culture, Foreign Student Advisers
1977
This report on a Comprehensive Community Child Care (4C) pilot project to train family day care providers describes the step-by-step procedures for setting up, operation and assessment of the program. The program was conducted primarily through home visits and group meetings, with extensive use of handout materials. Sixty voluntary participants,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Caregivers, Community Resources, Day Care
North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1973
The final report describes an exemplary three-year program in vocational guidance and occupational preparation in North Dakota designed to integrate career development activities throughout the elementary-secondary curriculum. The program, which involved both teachers and students in a wide variety of career development activities, resulted in the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Guidance, Demonstration Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1976
The purpose of H.R. 2600, which is commonly referred to as the Comprehensive School Health Education Act, is to encourage the provision of comprehensive programs in elementary and secondary schools with respect to health education and health programs by establishing a system of grants for teacher training, pilot and demonstration projects, and the…
Descriptors: Committees, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
United Nations Development Programme, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1974
The document reports on the activities undertaken and the results achieved in a project intended to develop cooperatives of food producers (including fisheries, farming and fruit growing) in Senegal. Three consultants were requested of and provided by the International Labor Organization, for the United Nations Development Program. Working with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Cooperatives
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1972
The report of the Individualized Learning for Adults (ILA) project reviews the history and development of the instructional system and focuses on the procedures, accomplishments, and results of the field testing conducted during 1971-72. Stressing mathematics and communication skills, the ILA system leads the adult learner to approximately ninth…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Communication Skills
McKinley, Francis; And Others – 1970
Conducted in 1967 by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development at the request of the National Indian Youth Council, this 1-year study was made on American Indians at the following sites; Loneman, South Dakota; Ponca City, Oklahoma; Crow Agency, Montana; Fort Berthold, North Dakota; Nondalton, Alaska; South Nek Nek, Alaska;…
Descriptors: Administration, American Indians, Attitudes, Civil Rights
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