The American Issues Forum (AIF) is the national program for the Bicentennial developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and cosponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. The purpose of the Leadership Packet is to provide those who are interested in developing AIF Programs with suggestions about how to plan and…

The application of conventional psychometric procedures to instructional product development is outlined. Selected non-psychometric requirements of developing and delivering effective instruction are described and the consequent implications for psychometric procedures set forth. Present instructional development technology is circumscribed in…

The State of Alabama career education-exploration and placement project was an attempt to organize and study alternate methods of providing career education to students in the junior and senior high grades. Emphasis was placed on "exploration" at the junior high level, whereas the major program goals for older students revolved around…

The program is designed to provide a system for joining job seekers and job providers in Community School District No. 9 through a medium of teaching and training and to meet the immediate and future job training needs of community residents. The program was conducted according to the following processes: (1) a needs assessment, an income and…

Intended for special education and regular teachers, the guide contains brief articles on the nature of mainstreaming handicapped children; mainstreaming models at the preschool, elementary school, and secondary school levels; specific suggestions for setting up mainstreaming programs, and interviews with five persons involved in mainstream…

This report describes the activities of a practicum which developed, implemented, and evaluated a transportable gross motor skills development program for kindergarten and primary children. The practicum involved three major components: (1) program materials, (2) inservice workshops, and (3) parent training. The program was implemented for three…

This book describes in detail the experience of professional personnel in the Atlanta City School System during two years of planning and five years of operating a year-round, four-quarter school plan involving 32,000 high school students. Content of the book focuses primarily on four areas concerning the year-round program: its beginning,…

This publication describes a practicum project that developed a comprehensive educational evaluation system for collecting, storing, and displaying pertinent data for use in planning educational programs at both the district and school level in the City School District of New Rochelle. The resulting New Rochelle Evaluation Model was developed from…

This plan is intended to be used by the Los Angeles Community College District during the five academic years between 1976 and 1981 as a basis for planning and implementing new career training programs and services, and for reviewing programs already in existence. Part 1 describes District and vocational education policies, goals, and objectives,…

The purpose of this study was to examine the role, practices, and status of Parent Advisory Committees (PAC) as required by Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the extent of PAC involvement in the educational decision making process in selected school districts in Texas. The sample consisted of 637 Title I PAC…

The handbook is part of a series on legal services for the elderly which can be provided by senior citizens functioning as paralegals. It is designed to assist trainers in preparing paralegals and covers the following areas: (1) planning a training program--trainees; trainers; setting; materials, equipment, and props; program content; scheduling;…

The document provides a model for planning and evaluating adult basic education (ABE) programs in correctional settings and is also a workbook for its implementation. It requires the use and understanding of systems techniques and concepts. The introduction discusses the rationale for and development of the conceptual model; basic systems,…

The career awareness miniseminars are designed to assist community college students in gaining awareness of various careers and occupations associated with the courses they are taking. These seminars are essentially group career guidance sessions conducted cooperatively by counselors and instructors. They are conducted in a classroom setting and…

The handbook, prepared by counselor practitioners from experiences based upon involvement in guidance-oriented career education programs, is intended to help the counselor who wants to start or fit within a program of career education. Using narrative and numerous illustrations, the book first presents a definition of career guidance in terms of…

Presenting evaluations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) implementation of the School Management Option Project, a project designed to further American Indian control of schools and elevated to the status of Presidential/Secretarial Objective (P/SO) in 1974, this report includes separate evaluations by the National Indian Training and…