Peakview Elementary School is a new elementary school that is implementing a number of organizational and teaching strategies advocated by the school restructuring reform movement. Among those strategies is the infusion of more than 80 networked microcomputers with their related technology and software. The impact of this technology on the school…

This book presents a conceptual model that supports a comprehensive program for professional development and evaluation. "The Professional Educator Development Model" is a framework that includes both a reconceptualization of teachers' roles and renewed consideration of how teachers' beliefs and desired student outcomes influence teacher…

This teacher's guide provides office education instructors with detailed units of instruction correlated directly to the essential elements of a course in microcomputer applications as mandated by the Texas Education Agency. Sixteen instructional units are organized into six sections on the following topics: introduction to microcomputers, word…

Developed to address the needs of the apparel industry, this fashion merchandising curriculum guide is designed to assist marketing educators in effective instructional delivery. Introductory materials include the following: a course blueprint that illustrates units of instruction, core competencies in each unit, and specific objectives for each…

In 1987-88, as a follow-up to a 1986-87 Learning Assessment Retention Consortium (LARC) study of the educational outcomes of 7,500 remedial writing students enrolled in California community colleges, data from the academic records of 2,701 of the original students were collected, and surveys were completed by a subset of 865 of the students. Only…

These training standards for motor vehicle mechanics are intended to be used by apprentice/trainees, instructors, and companies in Ontario, Canada, as a blueprint for training or as a prerequisite for accreditation/certification. The training standards identify skills required for this occupation and its related training program. They are designed…

This vocational program guide is intended to assist local administrators, regional coordinating councils, teachers, and others throughout Florida in offering vocational education training in food service and production in school districts, area vocational centers, and community colleges. The following topics are covered: program content and…

Little is known about how students become involved in the various dimensions of student change and development as they make the transition from work or high school to college. This paper describes the results of a series of focus-group interviews with 132 diverse, new students entering either a community college; a liberal arts college; an urban,…

Data on Texas teachers underscore the need for teacher education programs to prepare increasing numbers of teachers, and for those teachers to be better prepared with strong subject content knowledge and skills to address the diverse student needs they will encounter in the classroom. This paper presents a data profile of the Texas teacher,…

As a major component of Johnson County Community College's (JCCC's) annual institutional effectiveness assessment, follow-up studies are conducted of students completing a career program during the previous academic year and of their employers. In November 1992, surveys were mailed to 733 program completers, 489 of whom responded for a response…

The second volume of the third annual National Education Goals Report contains profiles of the achievements of each state, the District of Columbia, and five territories toward the National Education Goals of 1990, which derived from the National Education Summit of 1989. In brief, the goals for achievement by the year 2000: (1) all children in…

This curriculum guide was developed as a resource for teachers to use in planning and implementing a competency-based instructional program on teenage living at the high school level. It contains materials for a 2-semester consumer home economics course, based on the North Carolina Program of Studies (revised 1992); it is designed to help students…

This study used LOGO II, an instrument designed to assess students' learning and grade orientations, with a freshman class and again 4 to 5 years later when the same students (N=174) were seniors at the University of Montevallo (Alabama). To determine if there were differential effects for different majors, the data were disaggregated by major.…

This packet contains a program guide and Career Merit Achievement Plan (Career MAP) for the implementation of a computer programming curriculum in Florida secondary and postsecondary schools. The program guide describes the program content and structure, provides a program description, lists job titles under the program, and includes a curriculum…

This program guide identifies particular considerations in the organization, operation, and evaluation of laser electro-optic engineering technology programs. Contents include an occupational description and information on the following: program content, including a curriculum framework that details major concepts and intended outcomes and a list…