This handbook presents an overview of the New York State Testing Program as well as specific information on the Regents Examinations, Regents Scholarship and College Qualification Test, the Optional High School Achievement Examinations, Basic Competency Tests, New York State Standardized Tests, the Pupil Evaluation Program, Continuing Education…

Part I of this report attempts to describe the system that was developed for local educational agencies by the Delaware State Department of Public Instruction to support classroom and curricular improvement in mathematics through the administration of an objective-referenced test in mathematics to grade four students. This system includes the…

This program training text was designed to provide uniform instruction to the engineer, architect, planner, and others who will be helping to implement an erosion and sediment control program. Although tailored for use in Virginia, the basic principles covered are universal, and the material is adaptable to meet the needs in any State. The 11…

One of two training program texts built around the Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Law and Program, this guide presents a program designed to meet the needs of job superintendents and inspectors. (The other guide, containing a program for engineers, architects, and planners, was designed to train professional people who need engineering and…

The development of a 6-hour motorcycle course of instruction for personnel responsible for motorcycle licensing is described in this project report. The primary goals are stated and include (1) training driver licensing personnel in motorcycle safety and principles of operation, and (2) purchasing and installing appropriate motorcycle skill…

The current study is a comparison of the characteristics of the candidates from the Grossmont Union High School District who took the March 1976 administration of the California High School Proficiency Examination, with special attention to the differences between those candidates who passed the examination and those who did not . Significant…

For the 1973-74 school year the California Career Education Task Force decided that expanded activities would be most productively developed at six previously funded sites plus two additional sites. Since the eight project sites differed in geographic location, socioeconomic level, size, ethnic composition, and school organizational pattern, a…

With the overall objective of gathering information concerning employer's attitudes, perceptions, and opinions of Ohio's vocational education program, along with insights as to the strengths and weaknesses of the program and how it might be improved to more fully meet the needs of Ohio employers, mail questionnaires were sent to the personnel…

The guide provides a brief overview of the 1976-77 California Migrant Education Program, which will directly benefit 88,880 children of interstate, intrastate, and 5-year provisional migrant farmworkers and fishermen. Information given pertains to: the enabling Federal and State legislation, the number of students, grade span, total contract award…

Beginning in 1973, meetings of 12 regional education advisory councils (composed of students, teachers, parents, administrators, board members, superintendents, and other citizens) studied volunteer programs in Illinois to determine their drawbacks and to formulate recommendations for expanding the concept of volunteers in education. This…

One purpose of this paper is to describe how the concept of statewide minimum standards has been used in other states and to suggest precisely how it should be used in New Jersey. Current New Jersey law requires districts to establish pupil proficiency levels in basic skills, to identify children who fall below them, and to provide those children…

The National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) publishes Dr. Chambers' annual report of state tax appropriations for operating expenses of higher education for 1976-77. The report reveals that the weighted average rate of gain for all 50 states over the preceding two fiscal years is 24 percent. The differences…

Results are compiled from a national survey designed to monitor the Libraries and Learning Resources Program of the 1974 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA Title IV-B) and to learn what changes might improve the delivery of library materials, equipment, and guidance, counseling, and testing services to elementary and secondary school…

Examines current thinking on the nature of intergovernmental relations, examines the data on the development of the Michigan compensatory education program and the issues that have characterized its administration, and draws some conclusions about the state-local interaction in education and about the leadership capacities of state education…

Describes national and state competency assessment programs and presents suggestions for outlining basic competencies in social studies. Contends that social studies goes beyond basic skills, and that competencies should be self-serving as well as complementary to other subject areas. Notes the responsibility of social studies in promoting social…