The ultimate effectiveness of career education curricula can be determined only when the children who have been influenced by them become young adults. However, decisions must be made now about which career education paradigms should be translated into curriculum materials, and which materials already developed should be further refined,…

This report describes a survey which was conducted to determine community junior college presidents' views of how to evaluate remedial programs. Questionnaires were mailed to 166 schools in the New England and Middle Atlantic States. Since no institution forwarded a copy of any formal evaluation guidelines, it is suggested that very few of the…

This evaluation report is based primarily on interviews administered to Head Start parents and staff at 26 Head Start centers during 1972-73. Chapter I provides a summary of major findings and recommendations. Chapter II summarizes the current status of the health education curriculum guide, "Healthy, That's Me" and discusses the…

This guide represents an attempt to organize the available literature on day care programs currently in operation or in the proposal stage for infants under two years of age. Special emphases are placed on program goals for psychological development in the first two years, the curricula which have been developed to accomplish these goals, and the…

The first in a series of evaluation reports gives characteristics of sites and approximately 500 students in field tests of Me and My Environment, a 3-year life science curriculum for 13- to 16-year-old educable mentally handicapped (EMH) adolescents. Described are the field test design, which involves 14 data gathering approaches, and the…

"The purpose of this conference was to study and explore current problems facing Indian education today relative to the high drop-out rate of Indian youth in our public schools, the apparent communication problems between teachers and Indian students, the cultural heritage of the American Indian and its effect on education, relationships between…

Designed to be brief and informative, these guidelines should be of assistance to vocational education instructors in their efforts toward self-evaluation. Guideline statements representing those important areas into which an instructor should make inquiry have been tested in the field and represent essential elements which have received general…

This report presents a plan for ongoing evaluation of the Creative Problem-Solving Curriculum for Undergraduates at UCLA. The curriculum is an important departure in the University's approach to the education of undergraduates. It provides an option for those students whose aims tend to be action-oriented. It is generally concerned with their…

This curriculum guide to English instruction in grades seven through twelve moves from discussions of theory to discussions of practice. Section I deals with various aspects of planning and classroom operation from an examination of English as a subject of study to basic rationales for deciding what to teach and methods for evaluating instruction.…

Seven New York City urban education programs were evaluated under the direction of the state urban education coordinator, and the evaluation reports on those programs are included here. The seven programs are: Strengthening Basic Skills in the Junior High School, Reading Diagnostic Centers, Multi-Sensory Stations, Guidance Interim Class, Bilingual…

This study was conducted to develop, implement, and evaluate a 9-week unit interrelating the health aspects of home economics and physical education at the sixth grade level. The curriculum, which emphasizes physical, social, and mental health, was designed by: (1) diagnosing needs of the students, (2) formulating specific objectives, (3)…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a two-part report dealing with curriculum improvement in junior high school. The junior high school should provide education for youth having completed elementary school, at that particular phase of physical and mental development, and prepare them for continuing their…

One of the major issues in education is curriculum relevancy. To make education more relevant, curricula have been revised and redesigned; but many of these revisions have failed to be implemented at the classroom level because teachers and administrators are incapable of changing the classroom environment. Traditional 19th century instruction…

TECHNICAL AND NONTECHNICAL CURRICULUMS OF A SINGLE JUNIOR COLLEGE WERE EXAMINED TO BETTER HELP STUDENTS AND COUNSELORS TOWARD MORE REALISTIC DECISIONS IN CAREER CHOICE. THE PROJECT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN (1) DIFFERENTIATING STUDENTS IN VARIOUS CURRICULUMS WITHIN THE COLLEGE, (2) DIFFERENTIATING CHARACTERISTICS OF GRADUATES FROM THOSE OF UNDERGRADUATES,…

As a part of the two-year process of revising the basic mathematics course at the Open University (Britain), an in-depth survey of students completing the first unit of the course was conducted. A sample of 120 students was divided into three groups of 40; group members received a questionnaire concerning concepts covered, a questionnaire about…