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Hayball, Keith W. – 1973
The purpose of this practicum was to determine whether or not learning centers could help men with educational deficiencies, who were incarcerated and unable to attend formal school. Learning centers were activated and found to be an effective alternative to formal school in meeting inmate educational deficiencies, both at the elementary and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Educational Needs, Educational Programs
McClelland, Sharon; Dunkleman, Eleanor
This manual, an outgrowth of a pilot project (at De Anza College in California) which provided college education for nursing assistants to replace on-the-job training, presents: (1) a description of the pilot project (philosophy and purpose, history and background, value, problem areas, and recommendations), (2) process for implementing a nursing…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Course Organization, Curriculum Development
Scheffelin, Margaret; Ballard, Tara – 1989
This legislative report presents the results of a pilot project conducted in eight suburban California school districts as part of an effort to develop a testing program identifying kindergartners with potential reading problems. The project was also intended to evaluate the program's effectiveness and gauge the feasibility of statewide…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Identification, Kindergarten Children, Pilot Projects
Mellon, Knox – 1971
The project described in this document sought to structure primary source research, basic to the historian's approach to knowledge, into the liberal arts curriculum through the development of a pilot program for training undergraduates in the techniques of oral history research. The subject under investigation, the working woman in Southern…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Employed Women, Field Interviews, Higher Education
BARCLAY, DORIS L. – 1966
THE EFFECT OF ART EDUCATION ON IMPROVING THE ATTITUDES AND CULTURAL AWARENESS OF DISADVANTAGED YOUTH WAS STUDIED IN THIS PILOT PROGRAM. THE CALIFORNIA TEST OF PERSONALITY AND THE CHILDREN'S PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE WERE ADMINISTERED BEFORE AND AFTER A SPECIAL, 12-MONTH ART PROGRAM TO 25 CHILDREN (AGES 8-12) FOR DATA ON PERSONAL AND SOCIAL…
Descriptors: Art Education, Attitude Change, Creative Development, Cultural Context
Spain, Robert E. – 1975
The purpose of this practicum was to develop and implement a pilot project combining school and public transit services in Marin County, California. To accomplish this aim, it was necessary to gain approval from several public agencies, obtain funds to finance part of the study, gather and analyze data on school transportation and public transit…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Bus Transportation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
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Maule, R. William – Internet Research, 1994
Discusses prototype information infrastructure projects in northern California's Silicon Valley. The strategies of the public and private telecommunications carriers vying for backbone services and industries developing end-user infrastructure technologies via office networks, set-top box networks, Internet multimedia, and "smart homes"…
Descriptors: Business, Cable Television, Computer Networks, Futures (of Society)
Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Wiley, Edward; Rosenquist, Anders; Schultz, Susan; Shavelson, Richard J.; Hamilton, Laura; Klein, Steve – 1998
This study explored the sensitivity of a multilevel approach in detecting outcomes of a hands-on science program, exploring whether the instruction of a hands-on unit had any impact on students' performance and whether the estimated magnitude of the impact was different according to the proximity of the assessments to the unit taught. Also studied…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Hands on Science
MORPHET, EDGAR L.; SCHUTZ, WILLIAM C. – 1961
THE PROBLEM OF ADMINISTRATOR SELECTION IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION WAS STUDIED. THE ISSUE WAS CONCEPTUALIZED AS ONE OF UNDERSTANDING THE INTERACTION OF THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR WITH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND OTHER SALIENT INDIVIDUALS. A THEORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE INTERACTION WAS DEVELOPED USING THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERPERSONAL…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Measurement
California State Consortium on Cooperative Education, Sacramento. – 1976
Senate Bill 642, passed by the California legislature in 1973, authorized the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to conduct a pilot program in cooperative education involving no more than five community college districts for a period of up to three years. Pursuant to the law, the Chancellor has included Coast, Hartnell, Pasadena,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consortia, Cooperative Education, Educational Innovation
Jones, Charles A. – 1979
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive pilot middle school guidance program. Staff members reviewed the literature on middle schools in general and guidance programs in specific, explored programs in operation throughout the state of California, and consulted with members from the State Department of…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Decision Making, Guidance Objectives, Guidance Programs
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1967
THE PLAN INCLUDES SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR PROGRAM PROPOSALS TO QUALIFY CALIFORNIA FOR TITLE II FUNDS AND SERVE AS A POLICY GUIDE FOR STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS. IT PROVIDES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN CIVIC, VOCATIONAL, LITERACY, HEALTH, HOMEMAKING, TECHNICAL, AND GENERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS. SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Expenditures
Berkeley Unified School District, CA. – 1967
THIS ADDENDUM TO A REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAM TO TEACH AND INTERRELATE ARTS AND HUMANITIES INSTRUCTION THROUGH THE USE OF EXTENSIVE RESOURCES, INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS, AND ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY OUTLINES THE ACTIVITIES AND GOALS OF THE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED PLANNING STAGE OF THE PROGRAM AND OF THE PILOT (1967-68) AND…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Technology
Fielstra, Clarence; Chrispin, Barbara Rosenquist – 1972
The most difficult problem to be solved by this demonstration project was the high dropout rate in the target schools. More than half of the students routinely dropped out in the tenth grade, leading to the decision to start the program at that level in an effort to hold potential dropouts by stimulating their interest in health-care occupations.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Counseling, Clinical Experience, Demonstration Programs
Hood, Paul D.; Johnson, James N. – 1969
A television workshop in human relations for teachers and other school staff was developed as a cooperative project involving the San Francisco and Oakland, California public schools, a unit of the University of California, the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, and KQED, the area's educational television station. This…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Educational Television, Human Relations, Leaders Guides
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