An evaluative study was made for the staff and students at Career Study Center (CSC) to provide them with information for the program's future development. Staff, students, and parents were randomly selected and interviewed and the results summarized. Students feel CSC is significantly different and better than previously attended schools; there…

This document focuses on improving the writing and execution of learning contracts at Empire State College. Emphasis is placed on student purposes and background, organization of learning contracts, continuity and incrementability, diversity and variety, unity and intensiveness, compatibility with the discipline, time requirements, bibliography…

This study assessed the effectiveness of five hours of distributed training on three-year-old children's comprehension and production of the passive, negative, possessive and negative passive syntactic structures. A comprehension test identified 20 children who did not evidence understanding of these structures. Subject were randomly assigned to…

The project was a residential youth center designed to address the needs of hard-core, high risk, girls between the ages of 14 and 18, with a history of poverty, unemployability, and school failure. The report describes the history and goals of the project, the nature of the population under study, the use of volunteers and nonprofessionals in…

The educational component of this program was planned to offer a variety of educational experiences to meet the needs of the community. The following projects were included: (1) communications skills laboratories; (2) extended day; (3) lead teacher and inservice training; (4) preschool; (5) social worker; and, (6) community schools and tutorial.…

This report concludes the final phase of a project designed to help occupational and manpower training administrators apply the best available management concepts to the analysis and solution of a wide variety of problems. This 2-week experimental institute was presented to a group of Massachusetts administrators from such organizations as public…

This third report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio follows up on its first report (SP 006 262) which recommended that school districts build flexible staffing arrangements into their own school organizations. This report centers on descriptions of flexible staffing arrangements made in the Ohio schools. Flexible…

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between wait-time and two classroom interaction variables: cognitive level of teacher questions and length of student response. The interval of time between a teacher question and the next verbal response by teacher or student (wait-time) was measured using an electrocardiograph with…

The Paracollege at St. Olaf College is an experimental program in which students participate in a self-directed study curriculum where no grades are given and students work at their own pace. This document presents the results of a study designed to find out the varying degrees of general knowledge obtained by students in each program after 2…

This study examines an experimental program for teaching French, starting in grades two, three, and four, in two Canadian elementary schools. The program was established during the 1968-69 academic year. There are three major sections in the report: (1) a description of the pilot program carried out in Allenby and Bedford Park Public Schools, (2)…

This is a report on the development of a service-learning project conducted in the southern region since 1967. The program provides college students with internships in community agencies to work on social and economic problems. Each student is assigned a project and works under the supervision of a project committee made up of a host agency…

During the first semester of the 1971-72 academic year, students at 7 universities located in urban areas across the U.S. participated in an interdisciplinary program that was designed to help the students develop problem-solving techniques. The particular problem that the students attacked was that of drug addiction. This problem incorporated the…

The work of this Panel for the Evaluation of Experimental Literacy Projects was the assessing of how the pattern of evaluation it had previously formulated had been applied in the Experimental World Literacy Programme (EWLP). In the judgment of the Panel, by 1974 evaluation specialists will be able to present a report that will enable Member…

This report evaluates the effectiveness of an experiential field study course at the University of Washington. The course, titled GST 250/350, has different goals from a traditional volunteer program in that the student's education and experience are paramount; the services he provides are secondary. The student's motivation also differs somewhat…

PROGRESS IN THE OPERATION OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IS REPORTED. THE PROJECT DREW HEAVILY ON THE IDEAS AND THINKING INCORPORATED INTO TWO EARLIER PROGRAMS CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY. CONCERN WAS CENTERED ON THE IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION OF INDIVIDUALS IN VOCATIONAL AND TEACHING EDUCATION WITH POTENTIAL…