This is a summary of the second and third years' work on the research project on training teachers for the culturally disadvantaged, reported fully in SP 004 110, SP 004 111, and SP 004 112. The project was based on the hypotheses that students with academic difficulties could be made more academically successful, their grade-point averages could…

This annotated bibliography presents abstracts of publications which focus on finding new directions for implementing career practices within the classroom. It is limited to programs, practices, and techniques which are operational or have demonstrated potential for enhancing the process of career development. The emphasis is on relevance and…

In pilot projects at Newark and Philadelphia, the Penn Central Company used adult basic education (for the Philadelphia trainees) along with on the job training to prepare 51 low skilled, middle aged blue collar workers (mostly minority group employees of long standing) for clerical jobs in a computerized system. All the trainees were successfully…

This program was developed as a laboratory test of new teacher-preparation concepts, with special emphasis on urban problems. An experimental group of 37 elementary and secondary school education majors took part, with two randomly selected control groups and 42 teachers and administrators in seven elementary and high schools in a central Chicago…

A seminar on direct teaching by television, held in Rome in December of 1966, created such interest that it was decided to call a second seminar, restricted to adult education, which was held at Scheveningen, July 1-5, 1968. The subject was the assessment of needs and evaluation of results. The purpose was to compare, at a European level, the…

The major question this study attempted to answer was, "Can conservation of number, area, weight, mass, and volume to be induced and retained by 3- and 4-year-old children by structured instruction with a multivariate approach? Three nursery schools in Iowa City supplied subjects for this study. The Institute of Child Behavior and Development…

In the Spring of 1967, two groups of about twenty 4-year-olds from varying socioeconomic backgrounds of a small Midwestern community were subjects in a study to design a preschool curriculum. After an IQ test, individual identification tests (word, letter, and numeral) were administered to determine the children's knowledge. Home interviews and…

This report attempts to assess Articulated Instructional Media (AIM), a special degree program for adults which existed from 1964-68 at the University of Wisconsin. During 1964-66 a special sequence of interdisciplinary advanced courses in humanities, social studies, and the sciences were developed, which were an expansion of the school's…

This study addresses itself to the quality of evaluation research on compensatory education programs, the knowledge based on such evaluations as to the effectiveness of compensatory education, and the implications of the data that need to be examined for future planning of such programs and for designing studies to test their effectiveness.…

The Association for Graduate Education and Research in North Texas (TAGER), interconnects nine colleges and universities over a 2,000 square mile area. Approximately 100,000 post-secondary students and about 5,000 faculty members use on-campus studio classrooms offering credit courses and other academic programs desired by member institutions. The…

In its 1973-74 year the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) program focused on training needs in the areas of planning, evaluation, general management, and communications. The LTI team worked with directors and staffs of Title II-B institutions to increase librarians' skills in service to isolated communities, adults, and community colleges.…

This is an evaluation of a project whose expressed purpose is to teach "abstract conceptually-oriented" mathematics to disadvantaged elementary school children using a discovery-oriented, pattern-recognition approach. This report is primarily of Project SEED (Special Elementary Education for the Disadvantaged) in Gary, Indiana during…

The four major characteristics of the program are listed and described as follows: a) the Professional Block is field centered with "individualized learning packets" taking the place of campus-based education courses; b) the program is highly individualized, with the student, aided by his cooperating teacher, tailoring his program to the…

To determine the effects of two facets of the adult's input in a child's acquisition of syntactic structures and vocabulary, fifteen classrooms of kindergarten, first, and second grade children from four middle socioeconomic class schools were assigned to either a literature group (which provided exposure to reading rich in varied syntactic…

This document focuses on the problems of transferring credit facing undergraduate transfer students. Following introductory material, chapter 2 discusses the major dimensions of the dilemma. Chapter 3 covers articulation between junior and senior institutions of higher education. Chapter 4 reviews nontraditional study and external degree programs.…