The role of communication processes and strategies in needs assessment models and changes that have taken place in communication networks as a concomitant in school-community interaction is discussed in this paper. Federal and state legislatures and local communities have required that school districts document their needs and provide a rationale…

This report presents selected results concerning energy questions used to measure science achievement in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a nationwide survey of educational attainments of a sample of 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and adults aged 26-35. Data and graphs are presented concerning the performances on…

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the competency based teacher education (CBTE) approach. The individual papers comprising the chapters were written at different times, but collectively they provide a sequential introduction and analysis of the concept. A chapter on definitions provides a system for analyzing a CBTE program by…

The document presents remarks from a speech given by Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware and National Chairman of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), at the 1970 meetings of the American Vocational Association. In his speech, he asserts that vocational education can be a powerful tool in curing some of our major social problems of…

What is the actual distribution of federal financial aid funds across states to students with different characteristics attending various types of institutions? This document presents an effective means of organizing these extensive data in a way that is useful for evaluating the distribution of current federal programs and for estimating changes…

The nine papers presented in the document are part of a conference held at Coombe Lodge in Bristol, England, which focused on an analysis of the objectives of vocational art and design education and a re-appraisal of the curriculum. The papers include the following: (1) The Report of the Working Group on Vocational Courses, (2) Design Education--A…

The federal role in education is active when the issues are national in scope (such as in ensuring equal educational opportunities), when a unified research agenda is the issue, or when the problem is assessing the progress of education. The role is reactive when the government must be responsive to the needs of the states and local school…

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Departmental Regulation (45 CFR Part 86) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in the operation of most federally-assisted education programs. This document provides guidance with respect to the major first-year responsibilities of an educational institution to insure equal opportunity in…

A New York State survey, answered by 213 language supervisors, reveals significant trends in foreign language supervision throughout the state. The questionnaire and its answers are provided here, and include the following topics: official title; actual function; presence of other evaluators; number of schools and teachers supervised; teaching…

The revised manual is designed to assist industrial mechanics teachers in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their industrial mechanics program and planning for future development. With industrial mechanics being one of the major occupational clusters in Oregon, schools are being encouraged to implement industrial mechanics programs to meet…

The Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (CAEL) project is designed to develop appropriate concepts, methods, procedures, techniques, and instruments for the assessment of experiential learning and to validate such ideas, processes, and materials through large scale tryout on many college campuses. The status report concerns CAEL's…

The Martin Luther King (MLK) Program was initiated at the university in the fall of 1968 to provide special academic and financial assistance to disadvantaged students, particularly those of minority ethnic background. MLK Program students and students not in the program (non-MLK) were followed up nearly five years after entrance to the College of…

The deficiencies of five traditionally black institutions are examined in an attempt to remedy those deficiencies. Examined are: general institutional characteristics, financial and physical resources, capital, physical facilities, students, faculty and administration, academic programs, libraries, and computing resources. The principal conclusion…

This publication reports the results of an evaluation program to determine the effect of an interdisciplinary, K-12 environmental curriculum. The objectives of the evaluation program were twofold. First, to develop and validate evaluative instruments which would measure the impact of the environmental curriculum materials on students. Both…

The number of vocational education graduates from public schools in Tennessee for 1973-74 is compared to employment needs for the same period. The projected number of vocational jobs was 62,068; public school vocational graduates numbered 50,154. Charts also show whether secondary, postsecondary and adult training programs' graduates for 1973 were…