A national directory of tutorial projects was prepared by the Tutorial Assistance Center of the United States National Student Association. The directory is arranged alphabetically by states, including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The listings indicate the person to contact, number of tutors and tutees, program content, grade level, operating period, and occasional other notations. The index offers a breakdown indicating adult education, college and university...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Directories, Program Descriptions, Tutorial Programs
The document is a proposal for American Indian Studies (AIS) at Montana State University (MSU). The 7 Indian reservations in Montana remain isolated within the prevailing life-ways of the state, thereby becoming virtual economic, political, and social islands within its culture. Montana Indian education has been inexcusably low, with less than 200 college students from all reservations in a recent academic year against an estimated 4,000 Indian youths of college age in the state. MSU, as a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Participation, Program Descriptions, Tribes, Universities
This booklet touches on many topics related to child care consumer education for parents. The booklet begins by defining child care consumer education, discussing this education as a way to provide parents with child care information to assess their needs, locate services, evaluate quality, and choose the best possible care for their children. The booklet asserts that parents need information, personal attention, and access to support during the process of choosing child care. The booklet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consumer Education, Day Care, Parent Education, Program Descriptions
Brief, individual program descriptions from member organizations of the National Federation for the Improvement of Rural Education (NFIRE) constitute the sum of this report on NFIRE developments. Each report includes: the name of the organization; the name of a contact person; an address; an organizational classification; a descriptive note on the general nature of the work performed by the organization in rural education; and the significant highlights or major focus of organizational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activities, Organizations (Groups), Program Descriptions, Rural Education, Synthesis
The implementation handbook, over two-thirds of which is comprised of appendixes, describes a three-phased career education program in Texas involving 40 gifted and talented high school seniors. Phase I, the Guidance Laboratory Experience, features self-investigation and evaluation, career exploration, resource speakers, isolation of career areas, and mentorship interviews. In Phase II, Mentorship Laboratory Experience, students are placed in observer roles in specialized areas. Phase III,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Gifted, High Schools, Program Descriptions, Talent
Noting that fruit and vegetable consumption is an important component of a balanced diet consistent with the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" and the Food Guide Pyramid, this report fulfills a request from the Appropriations Committee Directives to analyze current levels of fresh produce in Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritional programs, including school lunch programs. The report examines the USDA commodity purchasing process and the agencies involved in these purchases, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Children, Lunch Programs, National Programs, Nutrition, Program Descriptions
This presentation and training aid provides a brief overview and discussion of the nature and scope of youth suicide, what prevention programs try to do, a framework for a public health approach, guides to programs and more. This material can be used for both handouts and as overheads for use with presentations. (GCP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Prevention, Program Descriptions, Public Health, Suicide, Youth
A short description of the availability of Harvard Project Physics course components is given as is a discussion of the growth of the use of Project Physics in schools, including some enrollment data and survey results. Locations of the 1970 and 1971 Summer Institutes are listed. Adaptations of Project Physics course outside the United States are discussed. A brief bibliography of articles related to Project Physics or other matters of interest is listed. An index of the Project Physics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Newsletters, Physics, Program Descriptions, Secondary School Science
The seven descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in the U. S. which may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The programs described are: the Appalachian Adult Education Center (Morehead State University, Kentucky); The Georgia Expanded Food and Nutrition Project (Georgia...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Innovation, Program Descriptions
This report describes the content of an educational program for family day care mothers based on the results of a year-long collaborative effort of 24 low-income licensed day care mothers and the staff of the Educational Day Care Consultation Program at the University of Michigan. The Project staff, program structure, group meetings, individual home visits, recommended goals of a training program for day care mothers, lists of pamphlets and materials distributed to participants, and selected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Day Care, Guides, Mothers, Program Content, Program Descriptions
This document is the second in a series of biannual surveys. It is a collection of project descriptions, each of which includes the following: (a) project title; (b) statement of whether the project is in progress or completed; (c) affiliated institute; (d) name of project and investigation leader; (e) personnel; (f) time schedule; (g) source of finance; (h) keywords, taken from the EUDISED Thesaurus or the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors; (i) background, aims, and problem; (j) scope; (k)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Program Descriptions, Research Projects
This digest describes the population of migrant farmworkers, some of their educational challenges, and programs currently available to serve them. Challenges cited include the constant mobility of migrant farm workers as they follow the crops, lack of a national record system to track the progress of adults, lack of transportation, and lack of child care. Fear is also a factor; many undocumented workers are afraid to apply for programs even when qualified. The two main types of programs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Literacy Education, Migrant Workers, Program Descriptions
This booklet describes the efforts and successes of the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI), a collaborative research venture of Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania that conducts research describing and analyzing the challenges of postsecondary education. Its goal is to provide institutions, policy makers, employers, students, parents, faculty, and administrators with the information and tools necessary to help them improve the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Since 1969 the International Planned Parenthood Federation has worked with the government of Botswana in setting up family planning services. An evaluation of the family planning aspects of the program were carried out. This is a summary of three research studies and some general comments. Included is: (1) an introduction to Botswana and the studies; (2) summary and comments regarding a study of family welfare educators; (3) summary and comments of a study of service statistics; and (4) summary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Planning, Population Education, Program Descriptions, Research, Surveys
This document contains accounts of nearly 200 programs currently in operation in California intermediate and secondary schools. The programs described were selected from among a large number of programs nominated by personnel from schools, district offices, and offices of county superintendents of schools. Teams of state department of education and school district personnel visited each of the nominated programs to confirm the accuracy of the descriptions. The publication is designed for use by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Instructional Programs, Program Descriptions, Secondary...
The speaker describes the El Paso approach to grade reports. The district has several different methods of reporting student progress. They include report cards every six weeks, an interim progress report for students who are doing unsatisfactory work or work that is not as good as could be expected, and parent conferences. (IRT)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading, Program Descriptions, Report Cards
This publication highlights major achievements of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) activities over the period 1970 to 1990. Chapter 1, "The Stockholm Conference and the Establishment of UNEP," describes the establishment of UNEP. Chapter 2, "The Role of UNEP," covers program development, environment and development, and UNEP's priorities. Chapter 3, "Two Decades of Achievements," highlights problems and programs in the areas of protection of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Environmental Education, Global Education, International Programs, Program...
With the aim of honoring the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by working to make his "human rights revolution" a reality, this report considers efforts to build a human rights society in the United States. The report celebrates the Center for Human Rights Education's (CHRE's) growth and accomplishments and documents the Center's work to ensure that both the language and the practice of human rights thinking become an essential part of U.S. social justice movements. The report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Liberties, Educational Attitudes, Program Descriptions
This Kentucky plan for the years 1997-2002 is the third iteration of desegregation planning which began in 1982. It is the second edition of "The Kentucky Plan" adopted in 1990. This edition embraces the dynamic nature of public higher education in Kentucky as institutions seek to provide greater access for an increasingly diverse student population. Sections in the 1997-2002 plan include: Committee on Equal Opportunities; Introduction; Vision Statement; Basis for the Kentucky Plan;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Enrollment, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Status
Programable desk calculators can provide students with personal experience in the use of numerical methods. Courses at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo use the Compucorp Model 025 Educator Experiences with it as a teaching device for solving non-linear equations and differential equations show that students can by-pass tedious hand calculations and elminate time-consuming program writing which other modes require; it also allows students to perform mathematical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Mathematics, Computation, Electromechanical Aids, Higher Education,...
The articles in this document describe various aspects of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Program. Two articles compare the CETA program to the WPA Federal Arts Program of the 1930s and describe various job opportunities CETA has provided for out-of-work artists. A photographic essay project of older adults, undertaken by CETA workers, is described in terms of the subjects it involved and the book that was developed from it. Another photographic essay project funded by CETA...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Artists, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Employment Opportunities, Employment...
The following instructional unit contains all the elements needed to complete a two hour training unit on Listening. Included in the unit are: training objectives, task analysis, needs analysis assessment, training plan, participant guide, and Power Point Presentation slides. A bibliography is included.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Training, Listening, Units of Study, Program Descriptions, Program...
This paper shows school districts how to establish and operate an individualized continuing education program for their administrators. The focus is on ICE programs designed and operated by schoolmen throughout the nation. The report includes the rationale for the ICE program, several program descriptions, a list of characteristics that distinguish and comprise these programs, sample budgets, definitions of participant roles, a description of how to launch a program, a bibliography, and sources...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgeting, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Education, Principals, Professional...
This document presents succinct guidelines for the general instruction programs of physical education in colleges and universities; it is not intended to cover programs of professional preparation in physical education or programs in the academic discipline of human movement. Its purpose is to increase the understanding of students, faculty, administration, and governing boards concerning the contribution of physical education to the general education of students in colleges and universities....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, College Curriculum, Physical Activities, Physical Education, Program...
This booklet is designed to acquaint the reader with some of the most basic provisions of ESEA, Title VII and to give him some idea how these funds are currently being used in New York State. The first part provides a general survey of ESEA, Title VII; the second is devoted to describing the programs in bilingual education currently being funded by ESEA, Title VII in New York State. (Author/SK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Programs, Educational Research, English, Minority Groups, Program...
A working party of the Schools Council--a central agency funding national curriculum development projects in Great Britain--developed general principles and recommendations for the dissemination of these curriculum projects. The main aspects of dissemination are strategy, teacher involvement, local support, inservice training, use of media, and evaluation. Some of the recommendations were to facilitate the flow of information between users and projects, to support information services and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Information Dissemination, Inservice...
This three-part report evaluates the progress of the Texas Center for the Improvement of Educational Systems (TCIES), and examines the nature and extent of collaboration at each of five Local Cooperative Teacher Education Centers (LCTECs) in Texas. Part 1 discusses the development and operation of the Texas Center from July 1971 through December 1974. Part 2 focuses on collaboration at the following LTEC sites: San Antonio, Dallas, West Texas, Houston, and Fort Worth. This section includes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Planning, Educational Administration, Institutional Cooperation, Program...
Presented in this college bulletin are (1) an introduction including information on admissions, registration, accreditation, philosophy, and affirmative action; (2) a survey of the academic programs; (3) a section on the learning process as it is approached at Evergreen; (4) a listing and description of current programs offered; (5) descriptions of prospective programs; (6) the means of student evaluation used, types of credentials to be earned, and career planning; (7) the means of governance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bulletins, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Independent Study, Program...
The project provides for a five-State (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico) consortium designed to upgrade competencies of all levels of Adult Basic Education (ABE) personnel. The major points of focus are: establishing bases for higher education; training State Department, university, and local ABE personnel by means of specialized institutes; making consultant expertise available to local ABE programs on a State and regional basis; and providing for technical services to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Consortia, Program Descriptions, Regional Programs, Staff...
Each school's version of a partnership with parents is unique, and no generic model exists. Designated in 1988 as one of 14 model schools in the New Jersey State Department of Education "Parents as Partners in Learning" project, the Mildred Magowan school in Edgewater Park has followed a systematic approach that has consistently led to increased involvement of parents in their young children's education. Though historically Magowan had welcomed parents in traditional ways, an 8-step...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Primary...
This report presents a composite picture of the experiences and patterns of change exhibited by six Colorado high schools after implementing the nine itemized principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools, as espoused by Theodore Sizer in "Horace's Compromise." The nine principles are: intellectual focus, simple goals, universal goals, personalization, student-as-worker, diploma by exhibition, tone, staff, and budget. By using a variety of traditional and nontraditional performance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Change, Educational...
Safe schools, violence prevention, and conflict resolution are all major concerns in addressing barriers to learning. This quick training aid presents a brief set of resources to guide those providing an in-service training session on violence prevention in schools. The packet contains a brief introduction to the topic with key talking points, fact sheets, tools and handouts, and a directory of model programs and additional resources. (GCP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict Resolution, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This article highlights the importance of involving foster youth speak for themselves, particularly about what they need and deserve as they prepare to move out of the foster care system. Descriptions of innovative and effective programs and legislation that encourage leadership skills in foster children are included, such as the California Youth Connection, Youth Grow Nebraska, and tuition waiver models. Includes a table of leading state programs. (GCP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Foster Care, Foster Children, Leadership, Program Descriptions, Kellam,...
This article describes the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, a project that strives to encourage children and their parents to think critically when interacting with media messages. The project is one of the few media literacy programs offering programming to both children and parents on issues ranging from tobacco advertising to sex and violence in the movies. (GCP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Children, Media Literacy, Parent Education, Program Descriptions,...
Educational, cultural, and scientific activities of the Council of Europe are reported in this bulletin. Part I reviews the areas of higher education and research, general and technical education, out-of-school education and cultural development, and educational research and documentation together with a resume of the 22nd session of the Council for Cultural Cooperation. Part II highlights higher education reform and the concept of permanent education. Four lectures presented at the Symposium...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Reports, Educational Change, Higher Education, International...
Information is provided about approximately 120 recently conducted, career education programs for handicapped adolescents. Programs and projects are presented alphabetically by state, and were selected by state personnel as representative of good vocational education for the handicapped with the potential of replication in other states. Usually listed for each state are the state director of special education, the state director of vocational education, and the name and address of a state...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, National Surveys,...
The School Volunteer Program has made a significant contribution toward enriching and expanding the instructional opportunities available to the Miami public schools' students. During the period from September 15, 1971 to June 15, 1972, 1,237 volunteers contributed 48,358 hours to the students in 35 schools in three districts. The goals of the School Volunteer Program are: (1) to lower the pupil-adult ratio in order to provide more supervision during the day and more individual help to pupils,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Community Programs, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Descriptions,...
Descriptive abstracts of all Elementary and Secondary Act Title VII projects funded through Fiscal Year 1972-73 are presented in this guide. The abstracts contain the project name, fiscal agent, director, location, languages other than English, grade levels, number of classes, student enrollment, staff, participating schools or districts, funding year, project emphases, and a summary of individual project designs. Abstracts are arranged alphabetically by state, city, and project. Information is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, French, Languages, Program...
Three basic notions--version, session and command language--are discussed which are essential for a user of the Rapidly Extensible Language (REL) system. The first is defined as a language--data base package consisting of a language, data and definitions. A session is stipulated to be the period during which the user operates at a terminal, and the command language is the means by which he communicates with and manipulates other versions. Details are next provided about the commands used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Programs, Computers, Program Descriptions, Programing, Programing Languages,...
This report provides a summary of the activities of the Ford Program for Research in University Administration over a 5-year period. Part I provides a review of the organization of the Program. Part II is a review of the research conducted under the auspices of the Program. Part III describes the career development and dissemination activities of the Program, and Part IV outlines some suggestions for future research. Part II presents abstracts of research reports concerning outcomes of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Educational Administration, Educational Research, Higher Education,...
This report by the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC) describes its organization and activities and also library developments in Mississippi under the Library Services and Construction Act for the fiscal year 1973. The long range goals are listed as well as the resources development and services which the MLC has undertaken. The recent staff reorganization is described and an organization chart of the MLC is provided. The work load statistics, organization and activities of the centralized...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Library Services, Program Descriptions, State Agencies, State...
The operations handbook for Project HEELD (Helping Eliminate Early Learning Disabilities) describes procedures used to identify and remediate learning disabilities among 5-year-old children in an Oregon school district. Described are the following project phases: selection of participants and training of staff, special class instruction for identified children, the summer school program, and the first grade followup program. It is explained that a major goal of the program was reducing the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Education, Identification, Intervention,...
The Family to Family initiative has encouraged states to reconceptualize, redesign, and reconstruct their foster care systems. By 1996, the initiative was being implemented in five states and six counties in two additional states. Drawing on the experiences of Family to Family participants, a framework for child welfare leaders working to reduce the number of children in foster care over 18 months has been developed. This report provides information on a number of innovative permanency planning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Welfare, Foster Care, Foster Children, Foster Family, Models, Placement,...
Presented are the rationale and description of the curriculum objectives developed for the Adaptive Beginning-School Learning Environment Program (ABLE). Included are brief discussions of: an analysis of the historical backgrounds and theoretical assumptions and approaches of extant preschool programs; the rationale for designing the ABLE program and how specifically ABLE differs from the extant preschool programs; the overall program goals; and the design for developing and implementing the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Educational...
This applied project recognized the priority to identify, describe, and evaluate existing vocational education programs that are coordinated with the adult performance level (APL) competency based approach. Furthermore, the project supported the value of developing and testing one or more models for APL/vocational education interface. In order to satisfy the objectives of the project, two monographs were prepared and an APL Curriculum Materials Catalog was compiled which used three criteria for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Vocational Education, Competency Based Education, Models, Program Descriptions,...
The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) has provided democratization assistance in Macedonia since 1993 in the areas of civic education, election monitoring, voter education, political party building, and parliamentary development. Since 1999, NDI has conducted a program designed to increase the capacity of members of parliament (MPs) to play a substantive role in legislative development. In late 1999, at the request of group leaders and MPs, NDI expanded the scope of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Elections, Foreign...
The purpose of this practicum was to improve the reading program at a San Antonio elementary school in grades one through three and to provide a model for expansion to grades four and five and to other elementary schools in the area. The Texas Right to Read format was used as a guide to implementing the program. This document introduces the program, discusses the background of the program, states the problem, and discusses the practicum design and execution. Also included is an evaluation, a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Education, Models, Practicums, Program Budgeting, Program Content, Program...
The third report of the greater Milwaukee area career education project documents the phase 3 activities and accomplishments of the project, from October 1974 to July 1975. The following objectives were accomplished. Contact persons have been established in each district to promote career education. Three one-week workshops, two adult career conferences, and a career education seminar for leaders from education, business, industry, labor, and the community were conducted. The publishing of a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Inservice Education, Metropolitan Areas, Program Descriptions,...
Presented is an overview of the gifted and talented students' program funded in Michigan by the State Aid Act (Section 47) and involving 12 elementary and secondary level pilot projects. An introduction includes a history of and general information about the Michigan program for gifted and talented students. Provided are brief descriptions of each of the pilot projects written by personnel directly involved in the project. Names and addresses of contact persons for each of the projects are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted, Pilot Projects,...
Organizations seeking advocacy roles must be informed, organized, and consistent in their commitment to achieve and maintain success. The experiences of the Texas Speech Communication Association's 12-year process to become a viable force in drafting and implementing educational policy in Texas might be useful to other state educational organizations seeking to influence policy in their respective states. If protecting the interests of speech communication in the curriculum in public and higher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advocacy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Organizational Communication, Policy...
This brochure describes some of the many recycling program options that schools can implement in their communities. It focuses on implementing actual recycling projects as a way of teaching the importance and benefits of recycling. The text examines the solid waste crisis and why Americans cannot continue to possess a disposable mentality. It emphasizes how a school recycling program can impart valuable hands-on experience that encourages students to make recycling a part of their lifestyle....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Elementary Secondary Education,...
The Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) is a program for Minnesota families with children from birth to the age of kindergarten enrollment. This booklet provides answers to common questions asked by individuals interested in the ECFE. The booklet's first section, "What Is Early Childhood Family Education," describes the model, while the second section, "What Happens in Early Childhood Family Education?" details the program components. The third section, "Who...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Profiles, Program...
This guide is designed to help state leaders identify which comprehensive school-reform models have been adopted throughout the United States. It provides information on states being targeted by developers and the capacity of each design team. The guide is divided into 4 sections: Developers in States; Developers' Capacity; List of Developers; and Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) Program Resources and Publications. The section on Developers in States features an alphabetical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Models,...
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a private, nonprofit corporation sponsored by 41 colleges and universities in the South. The pioneer among corporate university management groups of its type in the United States, ORAU conducts programs of education, information, research, and human resources development under contract with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and on behalf of the AEC and other governmental organizations. This annual report includes articles on cooperative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Budgeting, Higher Education, Planning, Program Descriptions, Public...
Reporting the results of statewide assessment looms as a problem as more states pass from the planning to implementation phase in their assessment programs. When energies are focused on the purpose of the assessment, formulating objectives, and instrument construction, reporting takes a back seat because it happens last. There are some general principles to be followed in order to report effectively the results of a large scale assessment program. This paper begins with several recent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Guidelines, Information Dissemination, Program Descriptions,...
A REPORT OF THE MICHIGAN STATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE FOR LANGUAGE ARTS, THIS BULLETIN DISCUSSES THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILD AND IDENTIFIES HIS LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES, LISTS MINIMUM TASKS AND REALISTIC OBJECTIVES FOR TEACHERS OF THIS GROUP, AND DESCRIBES SOME TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY THE GREAT CITIES PROJECT SCHOOLS AND SOME CURRENT PRACTICES IN MICHIGAN LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAMS. ON THE BASIS OF THIS INFORMATION THE COMMITTEE MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS TO BOTH LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND TO TEACHER...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disadvantaged Youth, Guidelines, Language Arts, Objectives, Program Descriptions,...
This report is a description of a program for training teacher aides which will provide a framework for understanding children and education goals in first grade classes. The program is outlined in sections: (1) the uses and limitations of teacher aides (the basic philosophy of their existence); (2) the procedure for recruitment and considerations for selection and retention of the aides; (3) the experiences provided in the nine-day aide training curriculum (the body of the report which focuses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Responsibility, Curriculum, Guidelines, Job Training, Primary...
One of the most difficult tasks in program production of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) has been the transformation of an author's ideas into machine-usable form. Thus, an improved authoring language (IAL) to facilitate the transformation of authors' drafts to machine-usable form was conceptualized. IAL was designed so that an instructional designer can help the author give his course a coherence that will meet programing needs. IAL requires data to be specified completely before the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Program Descriptions, Programing, Programing...
Using his experiences within an educational research center in the midwestern United States, the author illustrates the manner in which anthropology as a discipline exhibits synthesis between theory and practice. Focus is on the applicability of ethnography and ethnology to matters of theory and practice in educational research. A major goal of the Consortium for Educational Research has been to coordinate the efforts of both researchers and teachers in the design, implementation, and analysis...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anthropology, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary...
A foster parent recruitment strategy was developed and implemented to increase the pool of potential foster parents in a treatment foster care program serving troubled children between 2 and 18 years in a south Florida community. Foster parents in this program were expected to implement a specific skill acquisition program for each child and maintain records of the child's progress. The problem in recruiting foster parents was documented through interviews and a literature review. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foster Care, Foster Family, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Recruitment,...
THE SIXTH-QUARTER ACTIVITIES OF THE WYOMING RESEARCH COORDINATING UNIT ARE REPORTED AS COMPLETED, PROJECTS UNDERWAY, AND PROPOSED. SIX COMPLETED PROJECTS INCLUDED A NATIONAL SURVEY OF TRAVEL REGULATIONS GOVERNING STATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS, A STUDY OF THE REASONS FOR PRACTICAL NURSING STUDENTS DISCONTINUING THEIR TRAINING AT THE LARAMIE MDTA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING, AND A FOLLOWUP STUDY OF POST-SECONDARY VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL GRADUATES. ELEVEN PROJECTS IN PROGRESS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Program Descriptions, Research Coordinating Units, Research...
This publication provides abstracts of 43 active and 34 completed projects designed to improve pediatric emergency care. The projects were funded by the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Maternal and Child Health Bureau, in collaboration with the United States Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Issues addressed by these projects include the entire continuum of pediatric emergency care, from injury prevention and emergency medical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Child Health, Medical Services, Pediatrics, Pilot Projects, Program...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE CHAMPAIGN SPECIAL SERVICES PROGRAM OUTLINES THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL, COMMUNITY AGENCIES, PARENTS, AND CHILDREN. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIAL SERVICES PERSONNEL AND REGULAR SCHOOL PERSONNEL IS SHOWN. THE PROGRAMS FOR EACH EXCEPTIONALITY ARE DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF IDENTIFICATION AND SPECIAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN, REFERRAL PROCEDURES, ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS, CLASS SIZES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ancillary Services, Program Descriptions, Program Guides, Special Education, JONES,...
THE PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IN COOPERATION WITH THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM IS DESCRIBED. IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT EDUCATIONAL THEORY INTO OPERATION. IT FOCUSES ON AN EXPERIMENTAL-LABORATORY-FOR-PEOPLE CONCEPT AND EMPHASIZES THE INDIVIDUAL'S ROLE IN THE LEARNING PROCESS. IT HAS PUT THE PROCESS OF SELF-EDUCATION AHEAD OF TEACHING-AS-TELLING TO THE EXTENT THAT THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING THE ANSWER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ANSWER. THE SEVENTH GRADE PROGRAM HAS AN...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Industrial Arts, Industry, Junior High Schools, Program...
The selected bibliography of programs for children with learning disabilities contains approximately 90 abstracts and associated indexing information drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of November, 1973. Abstracts are chosen using the criteria of availability of document to user, current applicability, information value, author reputation, and classical content. Preliminary information explains...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child...
This pamphlet describes Head Start, a comprehensive program designed to foster the healthy development of young children from low-income families. Based on the view that Head Start helps to build a foundation for children's success, the pamphlet describes the population served by the program, the support received by local communities, its expansion to serve infants and toddlers, the establishment of high standards, the program's active support of high-quality services, and the measurement of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Intervention, Low Income, Pamphlets, Parent Materials, Preschool Children,...
The National Association of Governors' Highway Safety Representatives (NAGHSR), with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), pilot tested a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program in a number of communities across the country. In 1995, NAGHSR launched the effort in five communities, which received technical assistance on the comprehensive approach to underage drinking prevention incusing assistance on coalition building, needs based strategic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Case Studies, Drinking, Prevention, Program Descriptions, Program...
THE MAJOR THRUST OF UNIT ACTIVITIES DURING THE FIRST PERIOD OF OPERATION, JUNE 1, 1965 TO NOVEMBER 30, 1966, WAS TO EXTEND AND IMPROVE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WITHIN THE STATE. DEVELOPING CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION WITH LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL OFFICIALS WAS AN EARLY EFFORT. SUCH COMMUNICATION RESULTED IN THE UNIT'S MAKING COST PLANS FOR DEVELOPING VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, INITIATING GUIDELINES AND INSTRUMENTS FOR USE BY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF EDUCATION, AND MAKING COMMUNITY VOCATIONAL...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Program Descriptions, Research Coordinating Units, State...
Technical activity from April 1 through June 30, 1966 involving the development of performance measures used to assess student achievement in relation to instructional objectives are discussed. The major problems encountered in these activities are presented in these sections: General Curriculum Development, Development of Specific Learning Units, Implementation, and Tryout and Revision. These activities are related to one primary goal of the project as given the project proposal which is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Experimental Curriculum, High Schools,...
This final report explains the purpose of the Ohio Occupational Research and Development Coordinating Unit and its activities and accomplishments from its inception July 1, 1965, to August 31, 1969. The three specific objectives of the Ohio Unit are: (1) to gather data concerning employment, emerging occupational trends and future job projections, (2) to identify issues and problems relating to the nature and place of vocational education, and (3) to stimulate and encourage, coordinate,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Occupational Information, Program Descriptions, Research...
Included is a summary of the Apollo lunar program to date. Projected future NASA programs planned for the 1970's are discussed under the headings Skylab, Space Shuttle, and Space Station. Possibilities for the 1980's are outlined in the final section. (Author/AL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aerospace Technology, Program Descriptions, Resource Materials, Space, State...
A summary of the proceedings of the conference of experts convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and by the International Union of Geological Sciences introduces a discussion of the need for a standard terminology and for the collection of compatible global data to enable progress to be made in correlational geology (the relationship of geological strata across regions or continents). The necessity of a more detailed understanding of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Reports, Earth Science, Geology, International Organizations,...
This training program, developed at the University of Hawaii-Honolulu, was designed for community college teachers of minority and low-income students. The program emphasized the development of positive attitudes by teachers for the low-income and minority student. Intimate contact with low-income and minority families was achieved through a 4-day "live-in" experience. In addition to the "live-in" experience, four basic components comprised the training program: classroom...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups, Program Descriptions, Teacher...
An evaluation report is presented for a 1975 summer program for 25 6- to 12-year-old autistic children in New York City. Evaluative procedures are described, and student ratings in four skill areas (basic life skills, orientation to learning, cognitive skills, and socialization) are explained. Final results are said to indicate that all Ss demonstrated no decrease in performance in the four areas. Appended are an observation report form, the rating scale used in the evaluation, and a list of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Autism, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Program Descriptions, Program...
This description of the National Diffusion Network, a nationwide system of trained educators working together to help school districts adopt tested exemplary educational programs, includes a brief history of the NDN and discussions of how programs are identified, how exemplary programs are chosen, and how school districts adopt NDN programs. The dissemination concept, why NDN has succeeded, and the importance of sharing successful educational programs are also discussed. A brief description of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Background, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs,...
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