What competency-based instruction is and how it can help improve vertical articulation between the curriculum of secondary and postsecondary vocational-technical education programs in Minnesota is the focus of this booklet. Explanation consists of responses to the following questions: (1) What is vertical curriculum articulation? (2) What is…

Textbooks on government invariably include sections on state and local government, but because of the diversity of political structures existing on the local level, most material is general and not very satisfactory in helping students understand their immediate political environment. This resource was put together to help teachers gather relevant…

Written to comply with Article 3, Chapter 30, Alaska Statutes--which mandates that all exceptional children in Alaska have a right to an appropriate education at public expense, the handbook provides information for designing instructional programs and strategies that will most effectively serve the needs of all exceptional children in Alaskan…

The Guidelines for Educational Program Auditors in Utah were prepared to help educational program auditors (EPAs) deliver high quality services with a minimum of effort; they were intended to serve as a text for EPA training sessions, as a handbook and policy guide for EPAs and their assistants, and as a standard for judging the quality of EPA…

This monograph contains presentations from a training program that was designed to link state vocational rehabilitation agency personnel with the current technology of program evaluation in rehabilitation settings. Part One discusses a model program evaluation unit in state rehabilitation agencies, state agency program evaluation units from the…

The efforts of researchers to produce a pool of approximately 30 validated and field-tested topics for use in future administrations of the Florida Teacher Certification Examination in writing are reviewed in this paper. Various sections of the paper (1) describe the procedures followed; (2) explain the reasons for making certain important…

Two resource centers were funded by the Illinois Alcoholism Prevention Initiative to facilitate primary prevention and health promotion efforts at the local level. Located in DeKalb and Springfield, the centers assisted the Illinois State Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Division of Alcoholism in building a body of…

A study was undertaken to provide a third analysis of implementation of evaluation requirements in vocational education and of their perceived effectiveness and utility. The sample included the total population of Directors of Vocational Education for the United States and its territories; 50 directors completed the questionnaire. All respondents…

This report describes the Oregon Department of Education's 5-year Capacity Building Program (CBP), which had as its primary goal the development of a management plan and an information network to provide access to educational resources in response to state and local needs. A discussion of program goals is followed by a review of CBP management…

The minimum requirements for sequential programs in the language arts and related enrichment programs recommended in this document were determined by the results of an Alabama State Department of Education survey, which ranked 60 educational goals in order of importance and in which the top five goals reflected an overwhelming concern for language…

The document presents New York state regulations regarding services to handicapped children. Sections address the following areas: definitions; state aid to school districts for the education of students with handicaps; establishment of a committee on the handicapped; educational programs (special classes, resource programs, home and hospital…

The history and ongoing activities of Project DAIRE, a capacity-building effort undertaken by the Delaware State Department of Public Instruction to coordinate educational information and manpower resources through a central information service and to provide linking agents to facilitate the use of information in effecting school improvements, is…

The Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program is a testing service which provides the State of Wisconsin with: (1) a measure of student performance in selected academic areas by developing objective-referenced tests in reading, mathematics, economic understanding, and writing; (2) a comparison of Wisconsin public school students to the rest of the nation…

The status of New Jersey school districts' evaluation and reporting network of compensatory education programs is surveyed. The procedures involved in the analysis are explained, and the results are interpreted. The reported analyses compared actual student growth to growth that could be expected without Basic Skills Improvement (BSI) program…

Hawaii's Interscholastic Athletics program involves 38 high schools in a voluntary program designed to develop athletically talented students and to foster student and community identity with the schools. Although the ten-year old program offering sixteen team and individual sports has been successful, several issues remain unresolved in the areas…