In 1972, the H.E.A. Title I staff, with the advice and consent of the New York State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Continuing Education, the Board of Regents, and the U.S.O.E., adopted as one of two priorities for a statewide program that of encouraging regional projects in postsecondary continuing education to provide information on: (1)…

The Computer Managed Review and Examination System (CMRE) is described as a sophisticated form of computer-managed instruction designed to meet the needs of students who have some knowledge of the subject matter in a course of study, but may need to review material on some topics and increase their knowledge of others. The program incorporates a…

All eight poetry projects described in this volume, made possible by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant through the Connecticut Commission for the Arts, were innovative programs designed either to promote changes in teacher training methods or to provide secondary schools with direct experiences with poets through readings and classroom…

This booklet contains abstracts of projects undertaken through the Hilroy Fellowship Program in Canada for the year 1973. The stated aim of the program is to encourage and reward classroom teachers who are developing new ideas for the improvement of teaching practices. The booklet contains 22 abstracts which cover projects dealing with educational…

This document contains parts seven and eight of a report of projects undertaken through the Hilroy Fellowship Program in Canada in 1971-72. The stated aim of the program is to encourage and reward classroom teachers who are developing new ideas for the improvement of teaching practices. The project reported in part seven concerns industrial arts,…

Findings of a study focusing on cognitive and affective variables of one group of students who participated in the U.S. Office of Education funded project Interdisciplinary Model Program in the Arts for Children and Teachers (IMPACT) indicated that participation did not effect achievement test scores at grades four and six or teacher assigned…

Anxiety, or stress and tension, is a major problem in education for teachers as well as students. Training in the self-management of stress and tension seeks to help a person learn how to reduce tension and how to change the stress-producing features of the environment. The training program described in this paper is based on a variation of…

In recent years many communities, under the sponsorship of the B'nai B'rith Career and Counseling Services, are offering an alternative to the college visit by individual students and their parents. This alternative is the college caravan. By definition, a college caravan is an organized, guided inspection of a selected number of college campuses…

This report explains the role of reading/language arts resource specialists, contains tips for setting up a resource specialist program, and presents data--and discussions of this data--collected in a field testing of a staff development project conducted by the Florida Right to Read effort during the 1973-74 school year. The latter half of the…

This paper examines the problems of management and governance that developed during the course of the National Program for Educational Leadership (NPEL), an experimental four-year project that recruited and trained 62 noneducators for leadership positions in educational organizations. NPEL students were assigned to one of eight participating…

Intended for individuals and/or agencies who provide or require evaluation services, this paper attempts to deal with the lack of standards and procedures for evaluation contracts. The first section of the report, Summary and Overview of Standards and Procedures for Evaluation Contracting, contains a brief discussion of the use of the proposed…

The basic thesis of the larger paper from which this condensation is drawn is that the use of evaluation contracts is advisable when evaluations are to be conducted by persons external to the institution responsible for the program to be evaluated (or, in larger institutions such as large universities, by persons external to the unit or department…

The basic mission of the Office of Manpower Utilization (OMU) of the U.S. Marine Corps is to conduct Task Analyses of Marine Corps Occupational Fields. In its desire to maximize its effectiveness, OMU requested an independent evaluation of its program. This report summarizes studies and results of part of that evaluation, Research Area 5,…

The Youth Section of the Dallas Police Department has instituted an innovative police diversion project entitled the Youth Services Program as an operational unit of the police department. Fourteen civilian counselors supervised by a police lieutenant function as a diversion unit for arrested juveniles between the ages of 10 and 16. Juveniles that…

This paper describes the rationale and procedures used in identifying and retraining illiterate or semiliterate high school students in an alternative high school. The program focused on decoding skills taught through SRA materials in a reading skills laboratory. Because many of the students had had many years of unsuccessful remedial reading…