Most people are taught writing as a product rather than as a process. Whether the process is prewriting, writing, and postwriting; or planning, writing, and revising, teachers must be concerned with helping students discover and develop the process that works best for them. Thus it is the writing teacher's responsibility to teach students how to…

The document on characteristics and identification, is the first book in a multimedia program "Educating the Gifted and Talented," a series designed to provide background information, supplementary materials, workshop activities, and discussion questions for individuals and teachers who work or are preparing to work with gifted and…

A brief list of questions is offered as a checklist for local school districts who have developed a language arts curriculum plan and who want to appraise their work. The questions elicit information on curriculum design, key components and elements of the curriculum plan, teacher role, continuity, sequence, flexibility, implementation, and…

This booklet is the first in a series of resource materials designed to aid Lutheran communities assess the feasibility of a high school, make plans and responsible decisions for the establishment of a school, and assist existing schools in their ongoing operation. The guidelines in the first part of the booklet present a step-by-step procedure…

Grossman's subjective guidelines for identifying different levels of retardation were translated into a scorable functional behavior checklist and administered to 24 institutionalized mentally retarded Ss (age range 17-to-54 years). The guidelines were arranged into the following seven catagories: self-help skills, physical skills, communication,…

The stated purpose of these materials is to help educators accomplish four tasks: (1) identify "appropriate" instructional resources for disadvantaged students in vocational classes; (2) use an objective checklist to evaluate a resource's "usefulness" (a sample checklist is provided); (3) use criteria to evaluate a resource's "outstandingness" (a…

The stated purpose of this set of materials is to help educators accomplish four tasks: (1) identify "appropriate" instructional resources for handicapped students in vocational classes; (2) use an objective checklist to evaluate a resource's "usefulness" (a sample checklist is provided); (3) use criteria to evaluate a resource's "outstandingness"…

The kit is a multilevel assessment and reporting instrument for continuously evaluating the progress of multiply handicapped and retarded children receiving instruction in basic living skills. The TRAC System is designed to pretest a child to prescribe individual instruction and to then monitor the child's progress in his or her program. The…

Because teacher training programs have put relatively little emphasis on the evaluative role of teachers, a project was conducted to determine what teachers need to know, what beginning teachers do know, and what they later learn about measurement. The Measurement Competency Test, developed through consultation with a national sample of experts,…

Evaluation must be an integral part of the educational process concerned with the continuing development of better procedures and techniques for measuring outcomes of the educational program. The best evaluation is carried on by the local school district as self-evaluation. The manual provides forms for self-evaluation of vocational-technical…

A student profile of reading skills deficiencies, which may be used by teachers in evaluating the reading skills of students, helping students to view their failures constructively, and planning cooperatively for achievement, is described in this paper. Methods for diagnosis and for recording data are suggested, and a copy of the profile is…

Presented are program assessment checklists to be used as guides for planning, implementation, and improvement of educational programs for handicapped children. Separate checklist formats are provided for the following handicapping conditions: severely health and physically impaired; physically handicapped; visually handicapped; multiply…

The learning resource center is a place where learning materials and students are brought together under some kind of human mediation. The instructional interaction is primarily between students and materials. In planning a learning resource center, the first step is to survey the needs the center should satisfy. In part this can be done by using…

The guide for educators, families, and mentally retarded young people offers four behavioral checklists to aid in the preparation of the retarded adolescent for employment. Parents are encouraged to help their children develop behaviors such as correctly dialing the telephone and using local transportation. Evaluated in the academic achievement…

Great potential exists for saving energy and operating costs with a wide variety of heat conservation systems. Two major electric services--space conditioning and lighting--afford cost and energy savings opportunities. These services are detailed in checklist fashion in this brochure, with the suggestions included under space conditioning…