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BESVINICK, SIDNEY L.; CRITTENDEN, JOHN – 1966
TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE GRADUATES OF MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL, IN BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, WERE SUFFICIENTLY DIFFERENT FROM GRADUATES OF ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SAME DISTRICT TO WARRANT FURTHER RESEARCH, A PILOT STUDY WAS CONDUCTED. MELBOURNE HAS RECEIVED ACCLAIM FOR ITS NONGRADED, CONTINUOUS PROGRESS, INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM AND FOR THE NUMEROUS…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Continuous Progress Plan
Ramp, Wayne S.; And Others – 1980
Fifteen placement project participants were enrolled in a refined competency-based continuation of a pilot program to train individuals to function as placement coordinators in their schools. They were enrolled in a weekly oncampus placement seminar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for the entire academic year (1979-80) and in a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Competency Based Education, Coordinators, Inservice Education
Jacobs, Marion K.; And Others – 1980
This three-part paper describes a pilot demonstration project for training psychology graduate students and social-work agency personnel to provide mental health services for minority adolescents and their families. The training model assumes that all participants possess skill and knowledge that can be shared with each other and that a strong…
Descriptors: Agency Role, College Role, Community Services, Cooperative Programs
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1980
Pilot programs for comprehensive health screening have been implemented in Texas public schools since the 1977-78 school year. This was the first year state funds were appropriated for programs designed for the purpose of screening children for health problems. Students to be screened in the program were limited to kindergarten, grade six, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Grade 6, Health Education
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New Jersey State Commission on Financing Postsecondary Education, Trenton. – 1977
The financial, political, and faculty-administration attitudinal constraints in the state suggest that certain voucher demonstration projects would serve several purposes: (1) produce beneficial results for a segment of postsecondary students and institutions; (2) be structured to be acceptable to the educational community; and (3) provide the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bibliographies, Costs, Demonstration Programs
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Farris, Charlotte J. – 1976
Cornell University's College of Human Ecology offered an extramural graduate level course to forty randomly selected home economics teachers throughout New York State. Course objectives dealt with improvement of planning and teaching competencies. Participants were sent self instructional modules and audio/video tapes. Feedback and evaluation were…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids, Educational Innovation, Home Economics
Dalton, Phyllis I. – 1979
A comprehensive plan for the development of equitable library service on a cooperative and cost effective basis in Coos County is presented in this report. Topics covered are library resources and services in the county, cooperative library service organization, utilization of total resources and services, special needs and special services,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support, Guidelines, Learning Resources Centers
Kleine, Louis W. – 1968
The experimental pilot project was conducted to determine whether students who take the laboratory phase of an engineering technology applied electricity course in a mobile laboratory at branch schools demonstrate proficiency comparable to students who take the applied electricity course in permanent facilities at the parent institution. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Course Content, Electricity
Kansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1976
Seven phases are outlined for implementing career education in Kansas school districts, with suggested steps included under each phase. For example, Phase I: Pre-Commitment, consists of the following steps: Discuss concept of career education with board, introduce concept to staff and students, and obtain commitment decision from board. The rest…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Career Education, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Nutting, Paul A.; And Others – 1977
Describing the methodology by which the quality of ambulatory health care in the Indian Health Service (IHS) might be measured, this report presents a brief review of the literature; discusses design decisions basic to the methodology; presents a pilot study; and presents examples of process maps, indicators and adult criteria, and data collection…
Descriptors: American Indians, Content Analysis, Data Analysis, Delivery Systems
Instructional Technology Report, 1974
A series of analytical studies on learning, cost, and field projects, conducted by Wilbur Schramm and his associates at the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University, are reviewed in this issue. The researchers analyzed the potential of instructional technologies in developing countries with particular reference to: (1)…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1974
The development of a technique for a computer-based content analysis of interview data is described. A preliminary version of ANACONDA (ANAlysis of CONcepts by DAta-processing) is presented, and empirical results are shown from the application of the technique by independent coders to test material. Proposed modifications and extensions of the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Content Analysis
Gagliardi, Vincent M. – 1975
The report describes the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation for the 1973-74 school year of a pilot program in career education for an inner city middle school. Career education was infused into the ongoing curriculum in a team-taught interdisciplinary approach. Career clusters were related to the major academic areas utilizing…
Descriptors: Career Education, Inner City, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools
Parker, Forrest E. – 1975
During the 1974-75 school year, the major thrust of the second year of the exemplary project was the integration of career education into the curriculum at all levels of instruction. Career education was taught by the regular classroom teacher in all elementary grade schools. Detailed unit plans were developed and published as a guide for…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Resources, Conferences, Developmental Programs
Avram, Henriette D. – 1975
The Library of Congress presents the history of its Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) system. Descriptions of MARC pilot projects and distribution services are followed by a discussion of several conversion projects undertaken by libraries in order to implement MARC. Then MARC's influence on standardization of formats for information interchange,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Cataloging, Data Processing, Databases
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