This resource guide provides results of a survey to validate basic skills competencies with area-specific employers and outlines available resources for each competency. Its intended audience includes the Employment Training Office's basic education instructors and other vocational educators. An introduction summarizes the survey project. The…

Designed to teach migrant students about the world of work and how academic subjects relate to jobs and careers, this illustrated CHOICE (Challenging Options in Career Education) Occupational Resources text provides career and job information and basic job market entry skills information for junior and senior high school students written at a…

This book contains 20 articles, from a wide variety of perspectives, designed to bridge the interests of researchers and teachers on the topic of current composition research. The following articles are included: "Studying the Writing Abilities of a University Freshman Class: Strategies from a Case Study" (Charles R. Cooper, with Roger…

Patterns that emerged from reviewing four syllabi for courses on management information systems are discussed. These courses are offered as part of graduate level studies in the field of higher education administration. A proposed outline for a syllabus is also provided. Courses addressing the information requirements for colleges and universities…

The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) battery is administered in New Mexico school districts, as part of a state mandated assessment program, to students in grades 3, 5, and 8 to measure achievement in basic skills (reading, language, and mathematics). Various types of test data are presented for use in modifying the basic instructional…

In July 1984, the Texas Legislature mandated the criterion-referenced tests designed to assess minimum basic competencies in mathematics, reading, and writing. During the 1985-86 school year, the Texas Education Agency instituted the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) program to measure student competencies at grades 1, 3, 5,…

The purpose of this paper is to examine what is known about the costs and cost-effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) by presenting an appropriate cost methodology, applying it to CAI, and exploring the validity of four popular assumptions. These assumptions are: (1) that computer hardware accounts for most of the cost of delivering…

Project BECOME, a mainstreaming program for Hispanic and Haitian students of limited English proficiency, provided instruction in ESL and native language studies, as well as bilingual instruction in social studies, mathematics, science, and typing. The program, which was implemented at Sarah J. Hale High School (located in downtown Brooklyn, New…

In this six part handbook, secondary school teachers and students are provided with information and concepts needed to analyze the energy situation from an economic perspective. Part 1 begins with an economic analysis of the U.S. energy situation. It includes charts, graphs, and readings on energy use before 1970, consequences of oil supply…

Proceedings of Brock University's Graduate Conference, which enabled Master of Education graduates to share their research findings, are presented. Twenty-seven papers are included on the following topics: reading, physical education and coaching, homelife affecting schooling, stress, board/administrator decision making, behavior disordered…

Intended for teachers and others having responsibility for shaping language policy in the schools, this collection of invited, original articles is based on the belief that a teacher's task is not to "teach" children language but, rather, to create an environment that will allow language learning to occur naturally. The book is divided into four…

This volume contains an advice column and five papers on teaching behaviorally disordered youth. The "Grand Rounds" column offers advice on two teaching situations involving extremely disruptive classroom behavior and elective mutism. "The Franklin-Jefferson Program: Demonstration of an Integrated Social Learning Approach to…

This manual contains the general information on Regents Examinations, Regents Competency tests, occupational education proficiency examinations, and second language proficiency examinations, as well as the regulations and procedures for ordering, administering, and rating these examinations. The Regents Examinations are achievement tests based on…

The Memphis-Project Literacy U.S. (M-PLUS) coalition tried the reading immersion concept with a defined target audience in the workplace. Fifty-six employees of the Defense Depot and the City of Memphis (Tennessee) were admitted to the program based on test scores of between 2.0 and 7.0 grade levels on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test. The…

This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce reading skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 60 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…