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North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2006
This student sampler has been compiled to assist North Carolina students (4th and 8th grade) in their study of North Carolina. It is designed to introduce them to the people, places and events that have shaped North Carolina history. Topics include state symbols, descriptions of the state flag, and seal, the lyrics to the state song, and the…
Descriptors: State Government, State History, Physical Geography, Economics
Department of Defense, Washington, DC. – 1992
This book was developed to help educators and youth learn about career opportunities in the military. It is a compendium of military occupational, training, and career information and is designed for use by students interested in the military. The first section, military occupations, contains descriptions of 197 enlisted and officer occupations.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Armed Forces, Career Planning, Careers
Shlechter, Theodore M.; Burnside, Billy L. – 1996
This paper describes the Virtual Training Program (VTP) at Fort Knox (Kentucky) which aims to provide the United States Army National Guard units with intensive, time-compressed training opportunities. The program consists of: (1) computer-generated exercises that compel units to perform actions associated with training objectives; (2) realistic…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design
Brokke, Mervin E., Jr. – 1993
A study examined whether commissioned public affairs officers show more instances of job burnout than Department of the Army civilians serving in the Army public affairs positions. Surveys were sent to all public affairs officers working in offices in the continental United States. Of the 399 survey packets mailed to the 56 public affairs offices,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Burnout, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Green, Bert F., Jr., Ed.; Wing, Hilda, Ed. – 1988
This report describes a workshop at which Army researchers presented some results from the first phase of a two-phase Joint-Service Project. (The objective of this phase was to determine if technically adequate criterion measures can be developed that are representative of job performance.) Part I of the report presents the preliminary results of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Armed Forces, Career Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Leclerc, Jacques, Ed.; Maurais, Jacques, Ed. – 1994
The volume is one of a series of six listing language-related legislation around the world. It contains the texts, in French, of laws of Algeria, Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Malta, Morocco, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union. The laws concern official languages,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Courts, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
Allen, John – 1981
Organizational and personal correlates of intentions to reenlist or remain on active duty in the Army for both officers and enlisted service members were explored. Demographic and military characteristics and indices of commitment to continuation in the Army were gathered from 10 percent of the enlisted personnel and 30 percent of the officers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Armed Forces, Career Change
Fernandez, Richard L. – 1982
In 1976 Congress terminated the largest federal program of direct student assistance, the GI Bill. This study followed in the wake of growing dissatisfaction with the existing program and of recruiting difficulties experienced by the services during the late 1970s. This report presents the history and results of the Educational Assistance Test…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Armed Forces, Enlisted Personnel, Feasibility Studies
Morse, Stuart L. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1974
The article describes the systems approach which is employed by the Canadian armed forces in its technical training programs. Based on a Skinnerian approach to learning, training objectives are highly related to operational needs and stated in terms of trainee performance. (AJ)
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Educational Programs
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1989
The 18 papers of this conference were divided into five topics ranging from literacy to the history of progressive reform to history of education from an international perspective. Part 1 includes: "Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune's Early American Experiments in Educating Illiterates" (L. Townsend); "The Dilemma of Equivalency:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Armed Forces, Compulsory Education, Educational Change
Richardson, J. Jeffrey; And Others – 1986
In keeping with current Department of Defense policies on integrated diagnostics and a reduced reliance on paper-based documentation, the concept of a portable, expert-system-based job aid and training device was proposed to assist inexperienced electronics maintenance technicians in learning to maintain sophisticated equipment. A prototype was…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
McBride, James R.; Sympson, J. B. – 1982
The Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) project is a joint Armed Services coordinated effort to develop and evaluate a system for automated, adaptive administration of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The CAT is a system for administering personnel tests that differs from conventional test administration in two major…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adults, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
Due to concerns about the impact of a shortage of child care on productivity, morale, attendance, and family life of members of the uniformed services, the General Accounting Office was asked to conduct a review to determine why and how the Department of Defense (DOD) provides child care, what child care services are available, how many children…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care
Green, Bert F.; And Others – 1982
The United States Armed Services are planning to introduce computerized adaptive testing (CAT) into the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), which is a major part of the present personnel assessment procedures. Adaptive testing will improve efficiency greatly by assessing each candidate's answers as the test progresses and posing…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
Deloria, Vine, Jr. – Education Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 1973
Descriptors: Activism, American History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
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