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…

This document is a compilation of charts that outline the major activities conducted in the study, planning, and preparation phases of the Virginia Beach, Virginia, 45-15 year-round education pilot program. The critical incidents chart identifies the major events of this period from the initiation of a feasibility study through the actual pilot…

This report focuses on one of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs--Title III, the program for educational innovation. As shown by studies and reports dealing with the amount of involvement and participation of nonpublic school children in Title III programs, the general picture of past performance is bleak. There are notable…

Educational institutions, particularly universities, are facing increasing financial pressures, doubts about their relevance, continuing student violence, over-crowding, and the chaos of a knowledge explosion. These interrelated dynamic problems result from the way the educational system is organized and operated. The system's common ways of…

This paper summarizes the data management techniques used in a large-scale longitudinal study of intensive, innovative programs. Emphasis is placed on the scope of data collection, the methods used in the study to keep track of students over several years, the techniques used to collect data about students in public schools, the quality control on…

This paper describes a structured three-hour program in the area of interpersonal relations designed to supplement classroom instruction. The program, called the Discovery Session, is designed primarily to meet specific affective educational objectives associated with a college undergraduate course in intimate interpersonal relationships.…

Indiana University instituted a new program calendar beginning with the academic year 1972-73. The new calendar proposed: (1) to end the first semester before the Christmas vacation; (2) to deemphasize final examinations and encourage across-the-semester evaluations; (3) to achieve greater utilization of facilities by creating less…

Team teaching consists of four major types of teams emerging in the public school staffing patterns: (a) interdisciplinary groupings of teachers with diversified specialties; (b) groupings of teachers with instructional aides, paraprofessionals, and volunteers; (c) teams focusing on specific subject matter areas and related curriculum development…

This is the latest edition of an extensive annotated bibliography that lists sources of information about extended school year programs in the U. S. Separate sections are devoted to books, pamphlets, articles, and reports; theses and abstracts; filmstrips and biographies; and popular articles. Within each section, entries are listed alphabetically…

In this document, the author: (1) describes a two-year study of cross-age teaching; (2) identifies six stages that children go through in learning to teach; (3) applies those stages to case studies of two tutors--one failure and one success; and (4) discusses the implications of the stages for the role of the supervisor in helping children to…

This document discusses the relative merits of cross-age helping programs, where one older more experienced student helps younger less experienced children to learn. Two types of approaches to organizing cross-age helping programs are reviewed: (1) one emphasizes a programmed or structured approach which consists of a series of detailed steps for…

Attempts to apply Piagetian theory and research to educational settings are reviewed and evaluated. The fundamental assumptions of Piagetian theory are briefly summarized and the educational philosophy of Piaget is explained. Five representative early childhood education programs are described. Current criticisms of Piagetian theory and associated…

Universities and colleges are increasingly being called upon to do something about the environment. Most have responded by adding a new program, a new institute or a course, but none of these additions has basically changed the university and its relationship to the community and the environment. The University of Wisconsin at Green Bay started…

The validity of traditional grading practices is currently under study at Grossmont College. This report was undertaken as a working base for a committee to study the grading policy. Arguments both for and against traditional grading methods are presented in outline form. The arguments are taken from pertinent journal articles or books that are…

A summer conference sponsored by the New Mexico States Small Schools Project was held in Santa Fe in August of 1967. Several speakers described language-learning projects for bilingual children emphasizing use of the Miami Linguistic Readers in New Mexico schools. Mr. Rowan Stutz discussed work-orientation information presented to students in…