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Download full textCarn, Luella L.; Morrow, Mary Elizabeth – 1969
A 3-year curriculum to be offered by a comprehensive high school to prepare graduates for a wide range of occupations growing out of the knowledge and skills of home economics was designed and implemented. The following curriculum was developed: (1) sophomore year--English, American history, biology, mathematics, orientation to the working world…
Descriptors: Clothing Instruction, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Guides
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 1983
This handbook is intended to instruct school personnel in the use of the Vocational Education Evaluation and Assessment Process (VEEAP) with secondary special needs and handicapped students who are being considered for placement in vocational programs. (Designed to ensure that each special needs student receives a comprehensive vocational…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Guidelines, Individualized Education Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Frankenburger, Lydia – 1999
This research project was conducted to identify the reasons for the low retention rate for adult students enrolled in the prep level of the General Educational Development (GED) programs offered by the Clinton County (Pennsylvania) Development Center for Adults. All adult students who attended class at least once from July 1998 through January…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Attitudes
Etling, Arlen; Maloney, Thomas – 1995
This manual is designed to introduce extension workers to needs assessment theory and techniques in an applied context and to serve as a tool for planning and implementing county-level assessments of youths' needs for extension education (including 4-H programs). First, the following steps in the program planning process are explained: identify…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education, Brainstorming
Madgar, Eileen – 1999
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Labor-Management Committee (SPALMC), which serves approximately 180 adult students annually, was experiencing inconsistencies in performance among its adult education staff. The problems included teachers arriving late 50% of the time and individualizing instruction only 70% of the time. To remedy these problems,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Jackson, Shirley F. – 1999
Because an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teacher in Pennsylvania observed from the intake questionnaires completed by her students that many ESL students lack short- and long-term goal-setting skills, she undertook an action research project to help ESL students develop the short- and long-term goal-setting skills needed for educational,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
