In September 1988, seven pilot school boards in Dumfries and Galloway Region, Scotland, met for the first time. The pilot scheme sought to learn about the functioning of school boards before they came into statutory existence in the 1989-90 school year. The seven schools represented a cross-section of Regional schools and ranged from a one-teacher…

An instrument was developed for use in evaluating the effects of environmental education (EE) programs on young children's attitudes. The instrument consists of pairs of drawings; students tell which picture in a given pair they like better. In developing the instrument, assumptions were made that second- and third-grade students have…

It's a happy village populated by folks who speak both Spanish and English, and boys and girls can now visit it via public television. (Editor)

Described Experience-based Career Education, a pilot project sponsored by the National Institute of Education which was started for secondary school students to provide them with direct learning experience in real occupational settings. (Author/RK)

The article reports on progress towards lifelong literacy education in Pakistan, covering the project's introduction in 1972 and reviewing current activities in brief but concrete sketches of such topics as materials, operation of projects, and student drop-outs. Appendixes include a map and occupational breakdowns of teachers and students. (AJ)

This article describes a regionally oriented continuing education program for people in the construction industry which has been cooperatively developed by representatives from university programs in technology and by industry leaders concerned with regional needs for housing, industrial building, transportation, pollution abatement, and other…

Preliminary results compared computer assisted methods versus traditional mathematics processes to determine the nutrient content of foods for a dietary evaluation study. Objectives were to compare the two methods with regard to (1) computation time spent by students and staff, (2) accuracy, and (3) cost. The need for more sophisticated methods…

In the Berkeley Unified School District, funds from the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) were used to establish programs in communication skills, particularly writing and motivation for writing, in schools with enrollments which were more than 50 percent minority. Perhaps the most impressive achievement of the program was an unintended side-effect:…

The effects of students taking different levels of the same standardized achievement test were assessed by administering two levels of the same test to each student. The functional level of the test was taken by all students. The second level of testing was randomly assigned at the adjacent higher or lower level of the test. Functional level…

To implement metric education in Pennsylvania's vocational curriculum, the following objectives were planned: (1) establish two pilot metric measurement sites; (2) reproduce 150 copies of the 55 metric measurement booklets developed by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE); (3) orient vocational administrators to the…

The paper describes a pilot program for gifted first through third grade students who were underachieving in reading or mathematics and/or had behavior problems. The 4 hour a week five month program was designed to remediate academic and behavior problems utilizing J. Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model. Workshops were conducted for parents and…

FIVE SUMMER, 1966, PILOT INSTITUTES AT FIVE UNIVERSITIES, ATTENDED BY 190 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY CIVICS TEACHERS WERE JUDGED WORTHWHILE BY THE AUTHORS. HOWEVER, DEFICIENCES WERE FOUND IN (1) SCHEDULING, (2) UTILIZATION OF LITERATURE (CURRENT POLITICAL SCIENCE LITERATURE WAS NOT USED TO GOOD ADVANTAGE), (3) TRANSFER AND TRANSLATION (THE INSTITUTE…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE MIDWEST PILOT PROJECT WERE (1) TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING PORTABLE, LOW-COST TV EQUIPMENT TO RECORD SPONTANEOUS CLASSROOM TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY EXPERIENCED TEACHERS, (2) TO PRODUCE SOME EDITED VIDEO TAPES FOR USE IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COURSES, AND (3) TO EXPERIMENT…

During l978-79, the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) implemented a pilot program to develop a vocational assessment process for handicapped students from secondary special education programs. The evaluation was designed to help students identify their individual interests, skills, and potentials, and thereby plan for realistic careers in…

This study attempted to determine the effectiveness of using elderly adults as resources in teaching historical concepts to young children and in helping them develop an appreciation of their heritage. Subjects were 47 preschool children, 3 to 5 years old, who attended a university child development laboratory program. The Historical Artifacts…