The purpose of the National AEM Center's Quality Indicators with Critical Components for Workforce Development is to assist workforce development agencies and programs with planning, implementing, and evaluating dynamic, coordinated systems for providing accessible materials and technologies for all career seekers who need them. The ultimate goal…

The purpose of the National AEM Center's Quality Indicators with Critical Components for K-12 is to assist State and local education agencies with planning, implementing, and evaluating dynamic, coordinated systems for providing accessible materials and technologies for all students who need them. The ultimate goal of an AEM provision system is…

To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Washington state, Governor Jay Inslee announced on March 13 that all public and private K-12 school facilities in the state were to close through April 24. On April 6, he extended the directive through the remainder of the school year. Although school facilities are closed to traditional…

The overarching purpose of this document is to define a new vision for mathematics instruction that explicitly attends to the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs), addressing the interdependence of language and mathematics. The sections in this report are devoted to (1) making clear that the grade-level college- and career-readiness…

This is the sixth report in the series published by the PLATO Services Organization to keep users and prospective users up to date on curricular developments on the PLATO system. The series provides information on completed lessons which have been used in actual instructional situations. At present there are 6,000 hours of instructional materials…

This report is the fourth in a series of reports which the PLATO Services Organization publishes to keep users up to date on curricular developments on the PLATO system. Materials are listed here under 71 subject areas. The report first presents all subject areas in which PLATO lesson development is in progress; it then provides a summary of…

This report is the second of a series of semi-annual reports which the PLATO Services Organization publishes to keep users up to date on curricular development on the PLATO system. Materials are listed here under 65 general subject matter headings. Section II, the summary, presents a list of all subject areas in which lesson development on PLATO…

This is the third in a series of reports which the PLATO Services Organization is publishing to keep users up to date on curricular developments on the PLATO system. Materials are listed here under 71 general subject matter areas. The report presents first a list of all subject areas and instructional levels in which PLATO lesson development is in…

The goals of the Digital Systems Education Project (DISE) include the development and distribution of educational/instructional materials in the digital systems area. Toward that end, this document contains three reports: (1) A FORTRAN IV Design Program for Low-Pass Butterworth and Chebychev Digital Filters; (2) A FORTRAN IV Design Program for…

Intended to aid developers of media, materials, and educational technology for individuals who are handicapped, the guide provides information on preparing materials intended for distribution through the National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped (NCEMMH). Focused on in the section on determining need and effectiveness…

To assist school teachers in planning an integrated program using many media, a selected guide describes characteristics of elementary school populations. An alphabetical listing of manufacturers and service organizations in elementary education is shown in chart form to classify products available. Devices and methods in elementary education…

The development of motion visual instructional messages should proceed according to systems principles. This would permit the creation of more effective visual messages, allow educators to use more effectively the various media as communication tools, and assist in the refinement of the instructional development process. Like any system, a system…

Presented is an elaboration of the workscope of the ALRC (Area Learning Resource Center) network which provides instructional media, materials, and technology services to special education programs. Focused on are the following three of six workscope areas: state program development; media, materials, and educational technology training; and…

This module is designed to assist teacher educators, prospective teachers, and practitioners to become more familiar with the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is oriented toward the solution of educational problems and demonstrates how to use ERIC for this purpose. It consists of both an instructor-directed learning unit and an…

The program, designed to give the driver-training pupil a semester of 50 hours of instruction, involves four instructional phases, one of them optional to give flexibility to fit the varying needs of different school systems: Phase 1--the classroom phase, with 30 instructional hours devoted to 30 specific events, staggered at each school…