This document describes the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts design for interdisciplinary studies (IDS) and independent studies (ID) as general education for teachers. This document covers five areas: description and development of the general education program, personnel, budget, evaluation procedures and data, and how the programs contribute to…

The Educational Information Network (EIN) enables member colleges, universities, and educational service organizations to share their computational resources among interested constituents. To accomplish this objective, the EIN Software Catalog is published, describing the available resources. The purpose of this handbook is to define the…

This annotated bibliography contains 22 listings on the design and evaluation of college courses, including five on objectives, two on the evaluation of learning and instruction, four on innovative teaching methods, six on instructional design, and five on research design and educational experimentation. The bibliography is not meant to be…

The Oregon Project focuses on the development of protocol materials as a means to bridge the gap between instructional goals and instructional strategies. Educational concepts were distilled from the goals and objectives of the teacher training division of two participating institutions. These concepts were determined as part of a needs assessment…

A review of the work of an affective sub-committee of the Nucleus Testing Committee is provided. Proposed recommendations of the sub-committee are that: (1) the committee as a group identify an important question in the affective domain and design a testing project by which to gather data to answer the question; (2) a set of guidelines for the use…

This booklet presents an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education. Part 1 concerns environmental study areas. Emphasis is placed on defining environmental study areas, site selection and program planning, and preparing to use the environmental study area. Part II presents instructional activities based on the "strand" approach. This…

The Delphi Technique involves getting individuals' reactions by mail to specific questions or statements, combining these reactions and again asking these individuals to review and rank the findings until a priority ranking has been determined. The State Department of Vocational Technical Education used this technique with 103 persons at the…

This report describes and evaluates a pilot Outward Bound program undertaken by 24 students of the State University of New York at Buffalo as an adjunct to the inner-city teacher preparation program. It was believed that such a program by testing participants to their limits both physically and psychologically would better prepare them to survive…

This guide lists 144 Federal programs through which health manpower training was supported in fiscal year 1970. Each listing provides: (1) organization, (2) legislation, (3) program, (4) type of aid, (5) level of education, (6) institutions or individuals supported, and (7) funding. (BH)

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH FOR AN AUTOMATED, BUS UTILIZATION AND SCHEDULING SYSTEM WAS REPORTED. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM WOULD INVOLVE (1) PROGRAM DESIGN AND COMPUTER SELECTION, (2) CODING OF THE SUPERVISOR PROGRAM AND RELATED PROGRAMS, (3) PROGRAM CHECKOUT, (4) DATA CONVERSION, (5) SYSTEM VERIFICATION, AND (6) FINAL DOCUMENTATION,…

A description and evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Title I- funded projects for the state of Kentucky are reviewed in this report. It describes parental involvement, staffing, and project participants. Project components include the following: reading, kindergarten, general education, special education, and mathematics. A needs…

This document defines Project Simu-School and gives its history; presents the goals, objectives, and tasks of the Chicago and Santa Clara components and of the Council of Educational Facility Planners; presents the goals, objectives, tasks, and membership of the advisory-planning board; and discusses the proposed future plan. Discussion of the…

In outline form, this document presents basic information on the school district, the reasons the district considered zero-base budgeting (ZBB), the formation and membership of the advisory School Cost Analysis Team, the district's investigation of the ZBB concept, an overview of the ways the district used the ZBB process, the identification of…

A computer simulation model called PLAN was developed to broaden student clinical experience in the field of dietetics. Each simulated experience consists of five elements: (1) introduction to the patient, (2) data gathering, (3) assessment of data, (4) patient interview and counseling, and (5) assessment of outcomes with the assistance of the…

The paper distinguishes between short-term and long-term evaluation designs and discusses the usefulness of long-term designs for the assessment of the effects of career education programs directly and for the validation of short-term designs for the evaluation of these programs. (Author)