The Law Offender's Planning Task Force of the Governor's Advisory Council on Manpower was established to develop a comprehensive manpower services plan for law offenders in Illinois. The report discusses what is needed in effective criminal justice manpower services and the problems peculiar to delivery of manpower services within the constraints…

The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…

The summary of the proceedings of the National Career Education Workshops conducted by Oklahoma State University in 1975 includes an agenda of the Salt Lake City Workshop and summaries of small group sessions. The major purposes of the career education workshops was to help teacher educators develop a greater awareness of the career education…

PETC-III is one of several instructional systems currently under development in the Improving Teaching Competencies Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The PECT-III materials include training strategies and procedures plus participant instructional materials for use with a select group of educators in a workshop setting.…

The third and final volume of the Life Skills for the Developmentally Disabled Project is a manual for assessing and training institutionalized clients for deinstitutionalization and community living. Charts for goal setting and objective plans with information on materials, setting, instructional plans, procedures, evaluation and followup methods…

The document describes one component of a New Hampshire Experimental Schools Program (ESP) project to develop a K-12 career/vocational education program. By placing selected students at community resource sites, the program has taken advantage of both physical and human site resources. Skilled community craftsmen/tradesmen function as off-campus…

Part 1 of the project aimed at determining unmet vocational-technical education needs in the State of Maryland which might be met through residential education; Part 2 was designed to study the possible alternatives for meeting the needs discovered and to make recommendations regarding how these could best be met. A summary of Part 1 of the…

A comparison was made between Navy enlisted personnel who entered Hospital Corpsman class A schools (technical training programs) directly from a Recruit Training Command (RTC students, totaling 3044) and from other Navy jobs (strikers, totaling 363). The strikers had completed significantly more years of schooling with fewer suspensions or…

Written by a professor of pastoral theology, the book deals with today's crisis in the ministry, the personal dimension as well as the systemic breakdown of role definition and laity-clergy relationships, and recognizes the need for various support systems throughout a career in the ministry. The author states, "You are first a full human being,…

The labor mobility demonstration project attempted to increase the geographic mobility of a population characterized by low previous mobility and low mobility potential--black and white workers, either unemployed or newly trained (Manpower Development Training Act) from central Alabama. The complexity of the recruitment and selection task, and…

A series of five national instructor training institutes were planned for each of three emerging highway safety technician areas for which curriculum packages have been prepared (Driver Improvement Analysis, Driver License Examiner-Supervisor, and Traffic Record Analysis). Technical Education Research Centers and Dunlap & Associates…

Research into the career intentions of Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC cadets showed that a majority were willing to stay and continue into the advanced program, even without financial aid. The proportion for Army enrollees was much lower than for Navy or Air Force enrollees. Almost half of all advanced cadets were undecided about staying on active…

Summarized in this report are the efforts, accomplishments, and recommendations of personnel involved in a pilot program designed to teach educable mentally retarded (EMR) students key punch operation. Participating in the study initially were 18 high school students from Platt and Maloney High Schools. Instruction was given to each group by a…

The report investigates issues in the assessment of the impact of vocational education and manpower training on the labor market. Structurally, the report begins with a review of Federal vocational education and manpower legislation and of evaluative research in vocational education and manpower training. Because this report is essentially an…

The three-week teacher-trainer workshop concentrated on individualized diagnosis, prescription, and evaluation in Adult Basic Education (ABE) reading and mathematics for rural adults. One hundred and one participants from the 13 States in Regions 4 and 6 worked with designs provided by State directors of adult education outlining their 1971-72…