Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration (SUTOE) is a one year course designed to assist ninth graders with educational and career planning. SUTOE aims at enabling students to gain knowledge and understanding of possible future goals and job opportunities, to develop social skills in applying for work via application and job interviews,…

This study determines the impact of the 1965-66 NDEA Institute for the preparation of elementary school counselors on its 30 enrollees. Using a definition of the elementary school counselor's role, the institute staff developed a program including statistics, counseling theory and practice, group procedures, mental hygience, personality and child…

The Committee was established in September 1967 to study and make recommendations on Recommendation XXIX and XXX of the Report of the President's Commission on the Patent System. Based on interviews with Patent Office officials, patent examiners and classifiers and a review of Patent Office studies and documents, the Committee concluded that the…

A Rural Youth Development Program was organized in 1965 as an agency under the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity to provide counseling, education, vocational training, and job placement for approximately 600 disadvantaged New Jersey rural youth. The first of two phases was designed to provide 450 young men, ages 16 through 21, with short…

The growing demand for increased diversification of programs and greater specialization in work experience for students of vocational agriculture has created a need for sound teacher guidelines for initiating, establishing, and administering a vocational education program that combines the benefits of school instruction, on-the-job training, and…

This study sought to identify the areas of most critical concern for curriculum emphasis for a department of wildlife science. The questionnaire was developed from existing documents and modified by a committee. Included in the sample were college seniors, graduates, employers, and faculty members. An overall rate of return of 65% (141 usable…

Presented are six papers pertaining to the management of science, research, and development by federal agencies. The papers were prepared by students in a management of science course offered at the American University, Washington, D.C. Federal agencies reviewed include: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Department of…

A new conceptual framework of organizational effectiveness is described. The framework has three distinctive features: (a) It provides a definition of organizational effectiveness built around the concepts of outcomes, constraints, and referents; (b) it delineates three subsystems on which effectiveness, as well as relevant determinants, can be…

This paper discusses California's Cost Effective Demonstration Reading Programs--Reading for Survival, which operate on the premise that the junior high school years are an optimum time for intensive instruction in reading. The programs use a diagnostic/prescriptive approach. This begins with diagnostic testing of all students, followed by the…

A General Semantics Language Arts program was developed to improve the self-confidence of third-grade pupils. The effectiveness of the program was tested in an experiment involving 165 students. Four treatment group teachers used the program three times a week for ten weeks; control group teachers were not introduced to the program and continued…

This publication reports on the Regional Experts Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development, which was held by UNESCO in Bangkok from February 25-March 4, 1974. Purpose of the meeting was 1) to examine and review the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) and the projects proposed for it,…

This publication reports on the Third Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development, which was held by UNESCO in Bangkok January 19-24, 1976. Purpose of the meeting was to review the progress of the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) since the 1975 meeting in Tokyo and…

In this presentation, three approaches for involving teachers in curriculum planning are described, including the interdisciplinary team approach, the total district approach, and the total faculty approach. Each of these approaches is illustrated with "snapshot" descriptions of promising practices from Colorado, Arizona, and Illinois.…

Drawing on relevant literature, the author of this paper briefly reviews the progress made by the alternative education movement. He provides descriptions of seven successful alternative schools' programs, including magnet schools, a school-without-walls, community schools, and a school-within-a-school. He concludes that alternative education at…

Results of the academic achievement of American Indian students in the Robeson County, North Carolina School Administrative Unit are presented in this document. As part of an evaluation of an educational program funded under the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act, this document reflects program impact upon the county, its Lumbee…