This project sought to develop a set of tests for the assessment of the basic literacy and occupational cognizance of pupils in those public elementary and secondary schools, including vocational schools, receiving services through Federally supported educational programs and projects. The assessment is to produce generalizable average scores for…

The main purpose of this survey was to describe adult education programs offered by public agencies and institutions in the city of Calgary as they existed in 1968. No attempt was made to compare these agencies and institutions, nor was there an attempt to survey private agencies and institutions offering adult education programs. The basis of the…

The content analysis of the impressions of 22 American educators who spent 6 weeks studying special education in Europe summarizes their impressions or concerns on the philosophy, diagnostic procedures, staffing, and post-school planning of the special education programs they visited. The report considers positive reactions and negative concerns…

Guidelines are developed to assist Utah school districts in formulating sets of written policies which would bring about a more extensive and cooperative use of public school facilities by community groups. The study is concerned with--(1) reporting the policies and practices of selected school districts, (2) reporting the success the school…

A discussion of portable classrooms in California includes statements on the extent of their use, the reasons for their purchase, public attitudes toward them, some possible limitations, and the policy regarding their use. The paper concludes that before policy implementations are imposed on portable classrooms, a new survey must be undertaken…

This approach to preschool education of the disadvantaged uses a teacher training program which was developed only after each component of the program had been empirically tested. Teachers were retrained through course work and workshops to teach disadvantaged preschool children. These teachers then taught mothers and older siblings of…

The Michigan Oral Language program was installed in the Santa Paula School District for a 2-month tryout and student performance before and after the program was assessed through multiple matrix sampling. Student performance over seven content areas was determined for both the English and Spanish language components. In all seven content areas,…

Evaluation for accountability has become a significant part of federal funding guidelines. However, local project resources and needs, and, more recently, federal insight, suggests that the evaluation functions are most successfully carried out with the cooperation and active involvement of the local project staff. Under a contract to the District…

It is the position of the Michigan Industrial Education Society, Inc. that industrial arts can and should play an essential role in meeting the provisions of the 1974-75 Michigan State Plan for Vocational Education which serve the career development needs of students from elementary through adult levels. The value of industrial arts was recognized…

This document, prepared as readings for a workshop, contains summaries of exemplary programs and/or practices which relate to Career Development and Planning. Each summary is divided into subsections, such as: background of the project, objectives, procedures, general format, specific exercises, program evaluation, analysis of outcomes, and…

The report describes the role and functions of the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center (SEIMC) from 1966 to 1974 which serves 750,000 handicapped children in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Noted is funding during the first 5 years by the research division of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped with program…

The project objectives were: (1) to assess existing industrial upgrading practices in an Atomic Energy Commission contractor organization, (2) to design new alternative upgrading methods, (3) to experiment with new upgrading methods, (4) to plan for utilization of proven upgrading programs, and (5) to document and disseminate activities. A twelve…

Development of competency-based training programs and the preparation of guidance associates (undergraduates) and professional counselors within a competency-based framework are current major concerns in education. Three speeches trace the development of a monograph which outlines the program. Edward C. Bonk, in "Writing the Module on Career…

As a part of the Institute for Services to Education's (ISE) continuing effort to revise the curriculum and pedagogy of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP), the English staff of ISE brought reading specialists from the consortia schools together during the 1972 summer conference to examine the relationship of reading to TCCP. An…

A computer-assisted, diagnostic assessment system (Level III) is described that has been implemented on an IBM 370/155 and is written in Coursewriter III, Version 3. The function of this system is to administer a series of 10 examinations to 64 first year medical students. The system fulfills the University of Illinois School of Medicine's…