This guide for teachers, supervisors and administrators offers a conceptual framework and resources for developing a complete nutrition education program. Included are: (1) a statement of need for nutrition education, (2) definition of what nutrition education should encompass; (3) goals identified by teachers, curriculum specialists and nutrition…

THIS VOLUME IS PLANNED AS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF SOURCE BOOKS FOR LEGISLATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, STUDENTS, AND RESEARCHERS, SUMMARIZING INFORMATION ON CURRENT AND RECENT LITERATURE, AS WELL AS ON ACTION PROJECTS RELEVANT TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE, DIMENSIONS, AND DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY IN CANADA. PART 1 IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY UNDER…

INTENDED FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND BEGINNING GRADUATE STUDENTS, THE TEXT INTRODUCES THE KINDS OF EXCEPTIONALITY, INCIDENCE FIGURES, AND IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES. THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE ALSO CONSIDERED--(1) THE MENTALLY RETARDED, (2) THE GIFTED, (3) THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED, (4) SPEECH PROBLEMS, (5) THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING, (6)…

TWENTY ARTICLES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME, THE 22ND IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE CHILD SERIES. PAPERS ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND THERAPY INTERPRET LOSING AND BEING LOST, OBSTACLES TO PSYCHOANALYTIC CURE, AND AFFECT CONTROL. ASPECTS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY CONSIDERED ARE FREUD'S CONCEPT OF PRIMAL REPRESSION, CONCEPTS OF STRUCTURE AND…

THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP A MODEL HEALTH OCCUPATIONS TRAINING PROGRAM. LISTS OF TASKS PERFORMED BY NURSE AIDES, PRACTICAL NURSES, AND SURGICAL TECHNICIANS WERE DEVELOPED THROUGH (1) INTERVIEWS WITH WORKERS AND JOB SPECIALISTS, (2) A STUDY OF HIRING REQUIREMENTS, JOB SPECIFICATIONS, AND DAILY ACTIVITY CHARTS, AND (3)…

This sub-study of a 39-month longitudinal study conducted by the University of Illinois in cooperation with the University of Iowa, undertook to discern the trends in practical nursing in Iowa and to record a history of its development. The 435 member 10 percent random sample of practical nurses licensed in Iowa through December 1965, which was…

Public Law 88-444 asked the Commission to identify, assess, describe, and define aspects of technological change and to recommend specific legislative and administrative steps which should be taken by federal, state, and local governments. The Commission was to concern itself for 1 year with the coming decade. Their examination covered (1) The…

Conference keynote addresses present the views of a non-professional on deaf education, a plea for a global approach to the child with auditory problems, a psychiatric approach to the problems of deaf children, and legislation affecting deaf education. Discussions and recommendations are summarized concerning the medical-psychological,…

Suggestions for curriculum development for educable mentally handicapped, visually handicapped students aged 13 to 18 years are presented. A discussion of communication skills includes the areas of listening, oral communication, reading, writing, and spelling and teaching methods for each. The goals of the computation skills sequence, basic…

The project reported here was conducted to develop a consumer education program for high school students (grades 10 through 12) which would: (1) provide students with hands-on experiences in the management of resources (money, time, and energy) as householders in a simulated off-campus laboratory (a community girls' club), and (2) enable students…

This project sought to develop a competency based curriculum for Associate Degree Nursing that would be a logical outgrowth of the principles on which student performance outcomes and measurable exit criteria were based. The report includes the products, processes, and evaluation of each of the following project objectives: identification of the…

In January 1972, The Government of Sri Lanka reorganized the formal school system from 8-2-2 to 5-4-2 and introduced a new common curriculum to the junior secondary level in all schools. The National Certificate in General Education Examination (NCGE) was administered in December to the first group of pupils completing the new program. This study…

Assessing the potential impact of telecommunications technology upon rural economic development, this study for the Economic Development Administration (EDA) employs data assembled and analyzed from the following: "informed experts;" research information and demonstration projects; and federal legislation, research, and agency interests.…

Focusing on health practitioners, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include physicians, podiatrists, veterinarians,…

The validity of seven criteria utilized in conjunction with personal interviews and School and College Ability Test scores in the selection of applicants for admission to four Allied Health programs was investigated. The independent predictor variables studied were high school grade point average (GPA), the number of high school natural science…