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Wade, Pamela J. – 1982
The manual provides an overview of the Burris-Ball State Migrant Education Program and its program components. A general description of the tutorial component, designed to meet the unique educational needs and interests of elementary and secondary migrant students not serviced by other migrant education programs, precedes an explanation of the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Download full textBliss, Leonard B. – 1982
A sample of slightly over 1500 students was drawn from even-numbered grades in public schools of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and was given the 1973 edition of the Stanford Achievement Test (in grades 2,4,6, & 8) and the Test of Academic Skills (grades 10 and 12) to assess student academic achievement in the basic skill areas of mathematics,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment
Sebring, Penny A.; Boruch, Robert F. – 1982
Getting assessment results used is no easy task. This paper examines the findings of a recent study on the uses of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and suggests implications for increasing use of state and local assessment results. The NAEP study, conducted at Northwestern University, generated evidence that assessment results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Educational Assessment, Educational Diagnosis
Williams, Jerome A. – 1982
The Basic Skills Assessment Act (631) is a law passed by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1978 which established the Basic Skills Assessment Program. This law requires the establishment of statewide educational objectives for reading, writing, and mathematics for each grade level, kindergarten through grade 12. The law also requires that a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives
Goldberg, Paula F.; And Others – 1981
The report describes evaluation activities of Minnesota's PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Education Rights) Center's "Parents Helping Parents" Program and the "COUNT ME IN" Project. Section 1 focuses on "Parents Helping Parents," a program to make parents more effective advocates for their children and to…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Attitude Change, Child Advocacy, Disabilities
McCormick, Fred C.; McCormick, Eileen R. – 1985
The Quality Assistance Plan (QAP) for Vocational Education in Illinois is a state-funded program for locally initiated, developed, implemented, and evaluated projects that was begun in Fiscal Year 1982. Its purpose is to build the capacity, in each educational setting, for the improvement of vocational education programs. That improvement should…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Curriculum Services. – 1984
This manual for district and school health personnel contains guidelines to facilitate the planning and implementation of vision screening programs in California public schools so that all students may benefit from optimal use of their sense of sight. The major program objectives, the legal basis, minimum requirements, and authorized personnel are…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Persons, Preschool Education
McGrail, Janet – 1984
A portrait of illiterates and literacy programs in the United States in the 1980s is derived from this summary of the most up-to-date, valid information that could be obtained from a literature review. The first section on adult illiterates identifies data sources, numbers of illiterates, and characteristics of the five main groups (the elderly,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Programs, Correctional Education
Hawes, John R. B., Jr. – 1984
Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act places responsibility for the design and implementation of programs using Chapter 2 funds in the hands of local education agencies, and it assigns responsibility for administering the regulations to state education agencies. No formal mechanism exists, however, for coordinating the…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Aid
Mississippi Governor's Office of Human Development Commission for Children and Youth, Jackson. – 1984
This report describes a project that established family day care homes in Mississippi and made use of senior citizens as day care providers. The goals of the project were to provide alternative day care arrangements for low income parents and to offer senior citizens extra income and strengthen their self-image. Advantages of home-based day care…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents, Family Day Care
Ashley, Bart – 1984
The People Program is an educational effort being conducted at 20 worksites throughout Kentucky with more than 4,000 employee contacts. Part 1 of the People Program consists of a series of six 15-minute programs discussing problems experienced by parents of young children, and presented to them during their lunch break. Two main themes are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Employer Attitudes
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Educational Assessment. – 1985
The learning objectives for writing skills contained in this volume are congruent with Texas law. These objectives and the measurement specifications are provided for teachers and test developers involved with the preparation of the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) tests. Beginning with the 1985-86 school year, the TEAMS…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Research. – 1977
The Primary Reading Program was initiated in 117 classrooms in 40 North Carolina schools, to improve the reading achievement of the primary school students. The same number of control classrooms were also selected for comparison. Features of the program included increased funding for instructional materials; use of volunteers and teacher aides for…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Instructional Improvement, Pilot Projects, Primary Education
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1977
In 1974, the State of Maryland developed a plan for the desegregation of post secondary educational institutions. Summary tables of data on students and employees of State colleges and universities are presented in this volume. The data, collected for Fall 1976, include information on racial composition, application rates, residence (by county),…
Descriptors: College Desegregation, Ethnic Distribution, Minority Groups, Personnel Data
Elford, George – 1977
A number of significant policy issues related to the use of competency tests in basic skills as a requirement for high school graduation are discussed. Issues contributing to the interest in this practice include test score decline, the widespread offering of electives in high school, the complaints of employers about the skill level of high…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Graduation Requirements
