This Report describes a performance contracting program in Norfolk, Virginia; presents its results; and draws some inferences about the utility of performance contracting as a means for improving education. Participants were students from grades 7-9 in one junior high school and from grades 4-6 in one elementary school; both schools were in the…

An evaluation of the Indianapolis Title I programs for fiscal year 1970 is presented. An effort was made to concentrate services on the students showing the most need. Finances limited the programs to grades kindergarten through sixth. Programs for programed remedial mathematics, remedial reading, tutorial reading, special education, student…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 1-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has the following major sections: listening skills, word recognition skills, comprehension skills, reading and study skills in content areas. Grade levels are not indicated, as instruction in a skill should begin at the point where it is…

The purpose of these studies was to develop and demonstrate a model for identifying criterion levels of performance that can be rationally defended as being the best level of performance for a particular instructional task. The specific objective was to identify the score on a cloze test that represents the most desirable level of performance on…

Adult basic education programs must teach the "social living skills" disadvantaged adults need, as well as basic literacy skills. In creating an ABE program, one must first assess the needs of the target population--through surveys, group meetings, an advisory council of members of the target population, demographic studies, and consideration of…

Three 2-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) Institutes were conducted in Tennessee during the summer of 1972. The three were an ABE Guidance and Counseling Institute, an ABE Materials and Teaching Institute, and an ABE Reading Institute. Each institute consisted of approximately 30 participants from the various regions of the state, and graduate…

In this paper, presented at the sixteenth annual International Reading Association convention, the author argues that the destitution of the Appalachian region of West Virginia and Kentucky can be partially blamed on inadequate educational funding. As a result of inadequate taxing of commercial and industrial properties, adequate schools have not…

Proceedings of the Second Stony Brook Workshop are outlined in this paper. Discussions of six sectional meetings are summarized including: (1) pretesting and posttesting; Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring, (2) the role of media, (3) humane grading mini-packers, and flexible granting of credit, (4) individualized instruction: selection,…

Bilingual education programs which foster literacy first in the mother tongue and then in the second language, before the second language is used as a medium of instruction, are proving to be successful in a number of locations around the world. Several social, psychological, and pedagogical advantages result from this bilingual education…

This revised collection for kindergarten through high school, containing 118 objectives with 5 evaluation items per objective, is organized as follows: (1) Discrimination: the ability to discriminate between auditory sounds, colors, rhymes, and word meanings; (2) Sight vocabulary: a 250 word basic sight list; (3) Recognition of letters by name…

Transfer of learning from linguistic analysis of Spanish to actual use of the language is facilitated through the implementation of 45 performance objectives presented in this study. The exercises focus on: (1) sentence types; (2) diphthongs; (3) Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes; (4) orthographic rules; (5) phonemic discrimination; (6) stress…

Intended principally for use with Spanish-speaking students from South and Central America and the Caribbean who have migrated to the United States, this text outlines ways to develop interest in reading good literature. The main literary theme reflected through the literary selections concerns the worldwide problem of maingaining an ecological…

The Multilingual Test Development Project, recently completed in Seattle, Washington, has yielded a series of comparable oral proficiency tests in six languages designed for use with elementary school children, K-6. Extensive field-testing of the English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Ilokano tests was conducted with a research sample…

Begun in 1969, Follow Through has provided the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana the experience of actual management responsibility for a school-age program. Operating in kindergarten through third grade, the program also represents the first school-age program in which funds have been channeled through the Tribal Council instead of directly to…

This first volume of a two-volume final report describes a project concerned with developing indepth metric teaching units in the areas of carpentry and machine shop, preparing instructional materials to teach metrics in Spanish, and developing three-dimensional metric instructional materials and cassette tapes for persons with reading…