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ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1975
The annotated bibliography on early childhood intervention for the culturally different contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1966 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged
Shively, Joe E.; Sanders, Jack – 1976
Increasing student disenchantment with traditional schooling prompted the development of an alternative educational program: Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). During three years of development, evaluation provided student, parent, and employer data on program impact and effectiveness. Stakeholders' involvement in program development and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Education, High School Students, Integrated Curriculum
Mushkin, Selma J.; Billings, Bradley B. – 1975
This guide is essentially designed as a teaching aid for those who would inform planners, officials of educational ministries, school administrators, principals, and teachers about educational outcome measurements. In outline and graphic form, the guide presents topics for discussion in a seminar dealing with uses of outcome measurements. An…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Fraser, Lowrie A. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to measure the self-concept of students enrolled in "Man: A Course of Study" and compare those results with students enrolled in other social studies classrooms. Seven-hundred and twenty-one MACOS students and 736 non-MACOS students in Atlanta public elementary schools participated in the survey. The…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation
Myers, Keith R. – 1974
An evaluation of group project activities in terms of participant acquisition of vocational skills and competencies was undertaken in secondary vocational and postsecondary vocational schools within Wisconsin and Minnesota. Questionnaires dealing with study objectives were administered to 234 students and 17 teachers involved in the activities,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Evaluation
Palmatier, Robert A.; And Others – 1976
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Wolmut, Peter; And Others – 1976
The paper describes the efforts made in a Portland, Oregon suburban school district to develop effective supplementary career awareness instruction for fifth grade students. Evaluation of a three-year exemplary integrated K-14 vocational education project (VIGOR) had revealed no significant differences in career awareness competencies between…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Child Development, Cognitive Development
California Univ., Los Angeles. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1971
The report is an evaluation of a project designed to provide first year high school participants with core knowledge related to the field of health care. Additionally, its intent was to prepare them to make a career choice of an allied health occupation and to continue in an advanced training program and/or to be employed. Data concerning grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice
Dobrovolny, Jerry S.; Stark, Robert L. – 1975
The purpose of the study was to conduct a survey of all the public community colleges in Illinois to evaluate how the colleges develop and approve vocational-technical education programs. Objectives included evaluation of the criteria used in selection and approval of programs, getting information to improve management processes used in selecting…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Educational Programs, Evaluation Criteria
Johnson, Dale L.; And Others – 1976
In order to assess the quality of stimulation in the home environment, the Inventory of Home Stimulation (HOME) was used as part of the evaluation strategy for the Houston Parent Child Development Center Program, which attempts to help parents develop their competence as teachers of their own children. One hundred low income, Mexican American…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Development, Family Environment, Low Income Groups
Turner, W. E.; Bare, Janet – 1972
The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Primary Education
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1976
A three-year trial of a voluntary quinmester plan for extending the school year began in June 1974 in five Knox County, Tennessee, schools. Curriculum revision, K-12, was the principal thrust of the ESY (Extended School Year) project, but administrators also hoped to relieve overcrowding in the schools and to effect more efficient use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Social Welfare Development and Research Center. – 1974
The hypothesis that participation in a Palama Settlement House after-school, academic-athletic program leads to an increase in academic performance in the targeted subject (math) in school is examined in this document. It is also of interest to know whether or not the program is reaching its target group of low academic achievers. A sample of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, After School Programs
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville. Div. of Continuing Education. – 1976
The final report of a demonstration project in individualized adult education in rural areas of Arkansas, which took place during the period of July 1974 through December 1975, is presented. Program goals included: (1) to recruit and retain rural male adults who are operating at less than a fourth grade educational level, with emphasis on the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged
Minor, Michael J.; Bradburn, Norman M. – 1976
A survey project carried out by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) measured the effects of viewing the television series, "Feeling Good." The survey was one of four studies undertaken to assess the impact of the "Feeling Good" series. This project was a field experiment designed to ascertain the effects of viewing of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Television, Females, Field Studies
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