This individualized, self-paced correspondence course in carpentry has been adapted from military curriculum materials for use in vocational and technical education programs. This first volume of a two-volume set is designed to present the theory portion of carpentry and basic skills. The Carpentry I course contains four lessons. Lesson l, Job…

This individualized, self-paced correspondence course in carpentry has been adapted from military curriculum materials for use in vocational and technical education programs. This second volume of a two-volume set is designed to present the theory portion of carpentry through the teaching of basic skills of frame construction. This Carpentry II…

The evaluation design for the Austin Independent School District 1982 summer school program for elementary retainees is described. The evaluation is meant to focus on short-term skill mastery in reading and mathematics and the long-term achievement growth of the participants. Separate reading objectives and materials in Spanish and English…

This publication is the concluding text in a four-part curriculum for air conditioning and refrigeration. Materials in Book 4 are designed to complement theoretical and functional elements in Books 1-3. Instructional materials in this publication are written in terms of student performance using measurable objectives. The course includes six…

An exploratory study was carried out in four Los Angeles Title I elementary schools to determine what accounted for the comparatively high reading scores made by these schools' students on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills; determine whether the schools were engaged in demonstrably effective educational practices that other Title I and…

Ten articles on continuing professional education are presented. Titles and authors are as follows: "Merging Continuing Education and Inservice Teacher Education: A Concept Worth Exploring" (Alvah M. Kilgore); "Ablative Absolute Continuing Education, Ignorance Flees" (Ben J. Wiens); "Humanize! Individualize! Personalize!…

This curriculum guide provides cleaning services instructional materials for a ninth- and tenth-grade Coordinated Vocational Education and Training: Home and Community Services program. It includes 2 sections and 11 instructional units. Each unit of instruction consists of eight basic components: performance objectives, teacher activities,…

This teacher's guide is designed for use by consumer and homemaking education teachers in classes emphasizing nutrition. The guide is organized into 19 topics and is based on the 7 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: (1) to eat a variety of food; (2) to maintain ideal weight; (3) to avoid too much fat; (4) to eat foods with adequate starch and…

The Vocational Assessment Project for the Deaf tested the vocational interests, skills, and abilities of deaf adults in New Jersey so that accurate recommendations for vocational training and employment could be made. The work samples and psychometric tests, while similar to those used for the adult population at large, were specifically chosen…

The logic of using a gain score approach versus longitudinal causal models is studied in this secondary analysis of a complex data base. The gain score model used by the Federal Reserve Bank and the School District of Philadelphia in their "What Works in Reading?" study is successively refined using the LISREL structural equation…

Intended for use by Missouri vocational agricultural instructors in Farm Business Management Analysis programs for young and adult farmers, this curriculum guide contains 10 lessons in analyzing records. Each lesson is a self-contained instructional package and includes materials for monthly classroom sessions and monthly on-the-farm instructional…

The document provides guidelines for the education of gifted and talented students in Hawaii. Following an introduction which includes a brief historical overview of gifted and talented programs in Hawaii, the document addresses nine major topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): the nature of giftedness and talent (definitions, student…

The R.S. Wyer and T.K. Srull model suggests that when humans process information and store it in memory they create construct categories that are somewhat like storage bins. According to this model, when information is placed in these bins, it is stored in the order that it is received or used, with the most recently processed information always…

A report on the results of changes in the introductory core French program summarizes three reports evaluating the effects of increasing the total amount of instructional time in French in grades 7 and 8 on students' acquisition of French language skills, attitudes, and cultural awareness. Random samples of students in four academic year grade 8…

In this report, test results on the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Tests (GCRT) are presented for first-, fourth-, and eighth-grade Atlanta pupils. A brief report of results on the Georgia Basic Skill Tests (GBST) for tenth graders is also included. Specifically, the GCRT is designed to assess students' performance on reading (including concepts in…