This guide, prepared for a 2-year course in junior colleges and technical institutes, is designed to be a national program to train persons for employment as technicians in the cement and concrete industries. Included are 48 session outlines divided into four units of study. Each unit contains objectives, outline, related information, and…

This guide, prepared for a 2-year program in junior colleges and technical institutes, is designed to train persons for employment as technicians in the cement and concrete industries. Included are 32 session outlines divided into seven units of study. Each unit contains objectives, a subject outline, related information, and illustrations. Unit…

This guide, prepared for a 2-year program in junior colleges and technical institutes, is designed for a national program to train persons for employment as technicians in the cement and concrete industries. Included are 48 session oultines divided into four units of study. Each unit contains session objectives and outlines, presentation outlines,…

This composite, descriptive report describes the 23 NDEA Title V-A pilot elementary guidance programs which have operated in Michigan during the fiscal year 1968-69. These short summaries represent condensations obtained from the applications of pilot programs. Each summary includes the district name, the superintendent, the contact person, and…

This report describes Phase II of a Career Development Project that was conducted by the Central Kansas Area Vocational Technical School. The project has two main goals: (1) to help the student become aware of self and world of work, thereby enabling him to make life career decisions; and (2) to assist the student to relate basic educational…

A pilot study sought to determine if the "Planning Guide" provided useful assistance to college personnel needing to collect data about their own institutions. The Guide is a looseleaf manual developed by the National Laboratory for Higher Education and designed to organize information regarding an institution's: 1) current status; 2)…

This project was designed to meet the need for modified programs in agribusiness and natural resources education adapted to larger North Dakota school systems. The major purpose of the project was the development of an exemplary program to be implemented into the curricula of the Fargo Public School System, to serve as a guide for the development…

This report contains an interpretive analysis of individual test items used in the 1973 Wisconsin State Mathematics Assessment at grades 3 and 7. The sampling procedures, organization, interpretation of data, limitations, and useful definitions of the test, and test results are discussed. The analysis includes an evaluation of each test item and…

The reading assessment undertaken by the Department of Public Instruction in May 1973 was a pilot study. As such its primary purpose was to provide information for future assessment instruments, administration procedures, sampling procedures, and data analysis alternatives. Thus, this document contains a critical examination of the pilot…

The United States Office of Education has funded, under ESEA Title V, a network of regional projects called Interstate Projects for State Planning and Program Consolidation. The participants in the projects include all of the State education agencies. The purposes of the network of Interstate Projects are to (1) identify, analyze, and work…

The committee for Vocational Agriculture Pilot Programs in Wisconsin was appointed in 1967; this report analyzes the impact of five years of pilot programs on Wisconsin's vocational agriculture as a whole. During this period, the committee granted funding to 34 vocational agriculture departments in the State. A wide variety of programs were…

The problem under investigation in this report was the low achievement level of some students in the ESEA Title I Schools in Kansas City, Missouri. It was felt that part of this low achievement was due to a negative feeling among some teachers regarding the ability of the children to achieve. Kansas City mental health professionals and educators…

Project ENABEL (Extern Network of Adult Basic Education Leaders) was launched as a pilot project to: (1) analyze the essential character of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) problem, (2) identify individuals and institutions whose functions are critically related to the ABE problem, (3) identify personal qualities and professional competencies…

The Newburyport Project for Consumer Education, a pilot project conducted under the auspices of the Newburyport School Committee and the Massachusetts Department of Education, is described in this brochure in terms of the project's rationale, history, and implementation. The three-year project, now in its second year, is based on two principles:…

A comprehensive guidance program aimed at predicting chances of success in a student's choice of programs in community college and occupational programs, this project was undertaken during the fall of 1971 at Wayne Community College. The subjects used were those seniors from the five high schools who were interested in one of the vocational…