To determine what types of services Valencia Community College's Downtown Multipurpose Center should provide for the community, a questionnaire was either mailed or administered to members of community youth groups, black community leaders, women leaders, and senior citizens. The responses were key punched, tabulated, and calculated. The results…

The purpose of the COPES subsystem is the improvement of the quality and availability of occupational education for the disadvantaged student who attends a California community college. The subsystem facilitates achievement of its purpose by: (1) providing easily administered procedures for studying aspects of occupational education related to the…

A STUDY WAS MADE BY MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE, MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, AT THE NEW HOPE ADULT RETRAINING CENTER, PART OF THE MODESTO MULTIOCCUPATIONAL PROJECT UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT, IN WHICH TRAINEES, TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS IDENTIFIED CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EFFECTIVE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION TEACHER. STUDENT OPINIONS WERE…

This report presents an analysis and evaluation of some aspects of the goal-setting processes that were followed by California school districts in developing community-based goals, subgoals, and priorities. Data for the evaluation project were obtained from questionnaires distributed to school districts throughout the state. These questionnaires…

Korean American students (n=207) participated in a survey to identify special concerns. Although the majority of these students are well-adjusted and their self-concept appears to be highly positive, 78% were concerned about their parents' limited English proficiency, 56% were not happy with their school work, and approximately a third expressed…

Until recent years, school nursing practice consisted mainly of screenings and first aid. However, the changing health, social, and emotional needs of children in the school setting have brought about an expansion of school nursing services. Now school nurses must not only perform routine first aid and screenings, but they must also carry out…

Background: This study involved a bicoastal project between four composition classes, two in California and two in Pennsylvania. The focus was on how students read, write, and converse about ethnic and spiritual distinctiveness and the role of writing in identity development. Purpose: The researchers exercised a variety of methods (diverse…

This paper explores auto-photography as a form of research practice in the area of identity and self-esteem research. It allows researchers to capture and articulate the ways identity guides human action and thought. It involves the generation and examination of the static images that participants themselves believe best represent them.…

This report summarizes the results of a feasibility study of the Bay Area Literacy Referral Network (BALRN), a local literacy referral system established in 1985 by the coordinators of the 13 Bay Area literacy projects, which in turn were established by the California Literacy Campaign initiated in 1983. Funded with Library Services and…

This report details the design and results of a study commissioned by the California State Library to describe the everyday information needs of California citizens in the context of three societal trends that impact the operation of libraries and all other human services that define information delivery as part of their mandate: (1) emergence of…

Developed as part of a three-year project funded by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this manual is designed to present librarians in the State of California with an alternative, "sense-making" approach to assessing the information needs of patrons and potential patrons and to assessing accountability, i.e., whether…

Detailed interviews with immigrant students in the California school system indicate that the schools are not meeting the challenge of providing these students with an education adequate to prepare them to be productive members of American society. The first section presents demographic data and background information on immigrant children and…

This report summarizes a variety of information on the operation of county School Attendance Review Boards (SARB) in California and is intended to aid the legislature in evaluating the degree of implementation and degree of effectiveness of SARBs. SARBs are community-centered review boards intended to assist school districts, students, and parents…

A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BY MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE TO GATHER DATA ON THE FARM POPULATION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TO GET NAMES OF COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND PROVIDE MOTIVATION FOR EXTENSION PROGRAM PLANNING. THE MEAN AGE OF RESPONDENTS WAS 50, THE LARGE MAJORITY WITH CHILDREN AT HOME, THREE-FOURTHS NATIVE TO CALIFORNIA, ONE-HALF BEING BORN IN…

This study was concerned with identifying the specific information needs and personal needs of handicapped students and comparing the selected needs with needs of general students. The study hypothesis was that there is no significant difference between identified needs of handicapped students and those of general students. The significance…