This fifth quarterly report covers the period June 15, 1967 to December 15, 1967 of a project aimed at demonstrating a faster method of training higly qualified workers for the health field. During this period, nurse aides were trained in a pilot program based upon the educational objectives derived from entry level behavioral specifications…

This report covers the period July 1968-August 1969. During this time, library holdings increased to 10,728 items and a quarterly publication was the chief information dissemination tool. Studies completed during the period concerned the community college, practical nurse education, curriculum change in home economics; studies underway are a…

Researchers at Columbia University's Center for Adult Education, using a survey questionnaire delineating a comprehensive range of program areas and specific activities within each area, determined priorities for Adult Basic Education (ABE) Special Projects. The instrument sought the needs and preferences of those most directly involved in…

The Cherokee Project, a model demonstration program for learning disabled children at Cherokee, North Carolina, began operations in 1973. Funded by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, Office of Education (DHEW), it is administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Education Resources Center (Albuquerque, New Mexico). This final…

The federally funded Library-ABE project in Floyd County, Kentucky was designed to demonstrate the cooperation of public libraries and adult basic education (ABE) programs in providing services and materials which would enhance the education of the ABE student. Many adult students were introduced to public library services for the first time…

As part of the first year activities of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), a survey was made of existing bibliographic information centers and information processing activities across the country. Reports are presented on the activities of each of the 11 centers identified. A bibliography of information about computerized…

In this fourth volume of a four-volume report on the activities of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC), two studies are reported. The first was a study of the feasibility of marketing bibliographic and census data base products and services via NASIC. It represented an attempt to build a profile of the potential market for…

A report is given of the activities carried out during the first seven months of a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) project at Pennsylvania State University, begun in May 1965. The project's objectives are listed as: 1) to determine how CAI can be used to present core courses in technical education; 2) to prepare CAI materials in technical…

This report describes a model for staff development of an elementary school drug education pilot program designed to help children develop positive self-concepts and skills for decision making. The objectives of the staff development model are to help teachers, (a) assess their own needs and strengths, (b) plan and practice classroom activities in…

To demonstrate that individualized prescriptive instruction would improve facility in oral language a preprimary class for children three to five years of age was established in Bakersfield, California; and a primary class for children six through eight years of age was established in nearby Shafter. All pupils were of normal intelligence, had no…

Initiated in 1972, the Bilingual Early Childhood Program (BECP) serves as early intervention for 3- and 4-year-old children in Clovis and Portales, New Mexico (40 children at each site). Target group children were predominantly from Spanish-speaking backgrounds and were selected as participants using guideline requirements of language, background,…

Described is a project in which parents of profoundly and severely mentally retarded children were taught techniques of operant conditioning to be used in training their children in self help skills such as feeding, toileting, and dressing, with the end goal of reducing the anxiety level of parents. Involved were 25 parents whose children were on…

New York City Schools operate a summer junior-high-school program which includes an intensive program of remedial reading. Students are admitted to the program only if they are reading at least two grade levels below their actual grade level as measured by the Metropolitan Achievement Tests. Reading classes of about 25 students each participate in…

A School-Within-A-School program (SWAS) in Keokuk, Iowa, has proved successful in improving reading skills of about 145 seventh-grade pupils who are below the local 50th percentile in reading ability. The Title III/ESEA program utilizes a team teaching system which facilitates the teaching of reading skills in the content areas of mathematics,…

To discuss common problems and plan for their solution, this meeting of personnel from the Office of Education, the State Department of Education in Region VIII, and career Education Projects in the Rocky Mountain region was held. Specific goals included efforts to: (1) identify new approaches and alternatives in an effort to continue examplary…