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Download full textDILLON, ROY D. – 1965
THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH WORKERS WITH THE JOB TITLES OF GENERAL DIRECTORS, SALESMEN, SUPERVISORS, AND FIELD WORKERS IN LICENSED NURSERIES NEEDED AGRICULTURALLY ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE OF THE SAME KIND AND LEVEL AS WORKERS IN COMPARABLE JOB TITLES IN ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE BUSINESSES. DATA WERE COLLECTED BY PERSONAL…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Curriculum, Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes
PARSONS, WARREN – 1966
INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH THE MANAGERS OF 58 GREENHOUSES WHICH COVERED ONE ACRE OR MORE IN THE CHICAGO, CLEVELAND, AND DETROIT AREAS (1) TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF TRAINING DESIRED FOR THE COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSE GROWER IN TERMS OF THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE SPECIES OF ORNAMENTAL FLOWERING PLANTS PRODUCED, AND THE DEGREE OF ATTAINMENT OF…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes, Greenhouses
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL. – 1980
An Illinois project developed competency-based curriculum guides for Gardening/Groundskeeping and Floriculture using the V-TECS (Vocational Technical Education Consortium of States) catalogues. The programs were designed to provide students at the senior high school and two-year college level with entry-level and higher job skills and to provide…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Russell, Earl B.; Hanlin, James W. – Agr Educ Mag, 1969
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Facilities, Illustrations, Ornamental Horticulture
Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale. – 1997
These skill standards, developed through a consortium of educational and industry partners in Illinois, serve as guides to workforce preparation program providers to define content for their programs and to employers to establish the skills and standards necessary for job acquisition and performance. The skill standards include the following…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education
Legacy, James – 1980
A project was conducted to (1) validate meat processing and grain elevator operation tasks for Illinois by relevant agricultural businesses, (2) conduct a national review of teaching materials in the target agribusiness areas, and (3) provide inservice training and develop a self-instruction, competency-based curriculum guide for Illinois…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Hemp, Paul; And Others – 1984
This core curriculum guide consists of materials for use in presenting a 13-unit vocational agriculture course geared toward high school students living in metropolitan areas. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: employment in agricultural occupations, supervised occupational experience, leadership in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Occupations
Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale. – 2000
This document, which is intended to serve as a guide for workforce preparation program providers, details the Illinois Occupational Skill Standards for occupational education in the floristry cluster. The document begins with a brief overview of the Illinois perspective on occupational skill standards and credentialing, the process used to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Competence
Hook, Colin; Ethridge, James – 1980
As part of Project IMPACT's efforts to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirements of Public Law 94-482, a case study was made of Illinois Projects in Horticulture. Fourteen horticulture projects in high schools and junior colleges were discovered through a previous study, personal interviews with two University of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Stitt, Thomas R.; And Others – 1979
The purpose of this project was to prepare materials to be used in the review and evaluation of an agricultural occupations program. Based on standards validated by Illinois agricultural occupations teachers, a standards workbook was developed that included standards specific to agricultural production, agricultural sales and service, agricultural…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations
Courson, Roger L.; And Others – 1983
This curriculum guide includes teaching packets for 12 areas of study to be included in a core curriculum for 11th-grade or third-year students enrolled in rural agricultural programs in Illinois. Each problem area includes some or all of the following components: suggestions to the teacher, teacher guide, competency inventory, information sheet,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Animal Husbandry
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1979
As a result of a project to prepare standards for agricultural occupations programs in Illinois community colleges, this guide was developed to assist local community college instructors, administrators, and other local persons in the evaluation of local agricultural occupations programs. The first section of the guide explains (how standards…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering
Courson, Roger; And Others – 1984
This curriculum guide, the first part of a core curriculum for a rural agriculture program, consists of materials for use in presenting the first seven units of a nine-unit course for high school vocational agriculture students living in rural areas. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: educational and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry
