Activities and accomplishments of the Institute for Research and Development in Occupational Education during 1978-1979 are discussed in this annual report, highlights of which include (1) production of a film dealing with sex equity; (2) development of a parallel Spanish version of the Career and Occupational Development test; (3) a second year…

This report summarizes the proceedings, conclusions, and recommendations of the New York Vocational Advisory Council for the 1972 fiscal year. Concerned with the role and function of guidance, counseling, placement, and followup programs within the State, the Council authorized three studies: (1) The Arthur D. Little Study of six localities, (2)…

To increase the supply of modularized instructional materials to meet the need for preservice and/or inservice education of professional vocational educators, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education and seven interested states organized in 1978 a Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education. To…

The New York State Annual Report for Occupational Education, Fiscal Year 1975, contains a narrative description of the State's accomplishments in terms of the objectives of the State Plan for Administration of Occupational Education, as well as a statistical overview of the State's occupational education programs during the fiscal year. Data are…

This New York State annual report for the fiscal year 1972 describes the State's attainment of the objectives of its 1972 state plan for administering vocational education programs. A statistical overview of the current status of occupational education in New York State precedes the descriptions of program developments and accomplishments. Data…

Chapter 241 of the Laws of 1974 provides for aid to elementary and secondary education for 1974-75. This legislation contains departures from previous aid legislation. New criteria are introduced for calculating the "total aidable pupil units" which a district can claim. The new criteria are considerec to reflect an effort to provide…

The overview of this annual report emphasizes some of the major projects completed by the Institute for Research and Development in Occupational Education, in particular a pre-admissions counseling project for mature adult women, a project entitled "College and Industry - Partners in the Handicapped Employment Role," and a project…

The annual report contains a narrative description of New York State's accomplishments in terms of the objectives of the fiscal year 1974 State Plan for the Administration of Occupational Education under the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, as well as important statistical information concerning the status of occupational education in the…

The Youth Work Skills (YWS) program was developed to help economically disadvantaged, out-of-school, high school-aged youth with reading abilities at or below the fifth-grade level become job ready. In 1992-93, YWS served 236 participants at 7 sites throughout New York (two sites each in Brooklyn and Buffalo and sites in the Bronx, Rochester, and…

Activities and programs of the Institute for Research and Development in Occupational Education (IRDOE) are reviewed in this annual report for fiscal year 1980. The report describe twenty-three contract projects, an increase from nine the preceding year. Three projects related to handicapped populations, two projects involved staff development and…