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Download full textDuke, Daniel L. – 1977
Reviewing recent research on efforts to improve the quality of public schooling in the United States, this paper focuses on evidence suggesting that negative by-products often accompany innovations and, moreover, that innovators have tended to disregard their capacity for leaving schools in worse condition than they found them. The analysis…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Lowry, Cheryl Meredith; And Others – 1977
This coordinator's handbook, one of a set of twelve documents describing the Career Planning Support System (CPSS) and its use, is designed as a project management tool and provides step-by-step procedures for planning, leading, and coordinating CPSS activities. (CPSS is a comprehensive guidance program management system which offers the school…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Indiana Vocational Technical Coll., Indianapolis. – 1981
Project SEARCH (also titled "A Model for Providing Vocational Counseling Services to Adult Basic Education Students) investigated methods of providing counseling services with basic education programs while serving as a model counseling program. Designed to increase adult basic education (ABE) students' self-awareness, decision-making and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Counseling, Communication Skills, Community Resources
Sheffield, Cynthia L.; Farrington, William S. – 1981
The University of Florida Agricultural and Extension Education Department and the Sarasota County Cooperative Extension Service collaborated to conduct a pilot project utilizing a telecassette system to disseminate energy information. A statewide survey was administered to Florida county extension directors to identify the most frequently asked…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Conservation Education, County Programs, Energy Conservation
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1981
The 1979 report of a working group of the World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with the West German government, on the design of training in health planning and management in the European region is presented. The working group consisted of 15 temporary advisers from 11 countries, in addition to WHO staff and a consultant. The group was…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Evans, Donald E.; Easter, Glen W. – 1981
A project was designed to help beginning and experienced teachers of vocational agriculture learn and/or become current in the practice of present paravetical competencies that are needed to teach adult students. Specific objectives of the project included providing teachers with the skills necessary to teach students via laboratory demonstrations…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Animal Husbandry, Competency Based Teacher Education
Kelly, Michael G.; And Others – 1981
A bilingual instructional model to teach limited English proficency (LEP) students vocational skills was developed and implemented at Waubonsee Community College (Illinois). Bilingual vocational and vocational English as a second language (VESL) courses were developed and conducted in the areas of machine tools and secretarial science. A total of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes
Dressel, Paul L. – 1982
The history of the Doctor of Arts (D.A.) degree and issues related to its development are briefly traced, and D.A. programs presently available and the success of degree recipients are addressed. Attention is also directed to other types of degree programs that are available, including their advantages and disadvantages, factors involved in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Crowley's Ridge Vocational Technical School, Forrest City, AR. – 1982
Enrollees (aged 16-21) at Crowley's Ridge Vocational Technical School (Forrest City, Arkansas) had trouble mastering the vocational curriculum because they lacked academic skills in reading, mathematics, and language. Through research, it was determined that a Learning Resource Center could be the instructional tool that would remedy the academic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dropouts, Employment Potential, Individualized Instruction
Guise, Harry W.; And Others – 1981
A three-year project was conducted in Pennsylvania to design and implement a comprehensive model evaluation management information and policy support unit within the state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency. Five mandated project tasks were carried out to produce products that are necessary for program evaluation (PE). Proposed Federal…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Evaluation Criteria
Cohen, Judy; And Others – 1981
The LEX [language experience] Process for English Reading Instruction, a pilot project of the Guadalupe Educational Programs, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, during 1980-81, is presented in this 300-page manual that describes how the LEX Process model may be replicated by educational agencies seeking to provide survival and functional English as a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Hurst, Ellen Horiuchi – 1979
This booklet is designed to aid new community education directors in Arizona communities to design, set up, implement, and evaluate community education programs. The booklet first defines community education, sets it within the framework of the school system, and describes the director's job. In the next section, ideas for getting the job done are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role
Population Inst., Washington, DC. – 1977
The problem of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing is addressed. The document is a result of a conference of youth service agencies, family planning organizations, policy makers, health service providers, and leaders in sex education. Following summaries of participants' discussion of the nature of the problem and strategies for program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Rate, Change Strategies, Conference Reports
Cox, J. Lamarr; Lane, Carolee – 1981
A Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) program for nontraditional adult learners was developed, implemented, and evaluated for the purpose of making recommendations as to the need for and nature of further related research. Proposed program settings were two classes of adult basic education students and one of prison inmates. A case study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
North Carolina State Dept. of Community Colleges, Raleigh. – 1979
The second of three volumes in a postsecondary secretarial science curriculum, this manual contains course syllabi and abstracts of twenty-three courses included in the curriculum. Business and related courses abstracted include Introduction to Business, Business Mathematics, Business Law 1, Economics 1, and Survey of Data Processing Systems.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Business English, Community Colleges
