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Fisher, Sherrilyn K.; Clark, Gary M. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1992
This study developed a validation procedure for identifying oral vocabulary related to occupational awareness and produced a list of terms appropriate for curriculum development in career education for students with mild disabilities at the middle school level. The process used 33 teacher participants and involved sorting candidate words for…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Difficulty Level
Haley, Kathleen – 1998
A study was proposed to determine to what extent a hierarchical structure exists in music and in tests used to measure music ability. The first research question was whether items in the Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale (J. Watkins and S. Farnum, 1954) (WFPS) form a hierarchy, so that early exercises (bars played) are generally easier than later…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
O'Brien, Michael L. – 1981
The Emory Word Analysis Skill Inventory (EWASI) was developed to diagnose individual word analysis skill abnormalities exhibited by students enrolled in private tutoring in the Emory University (Georgia) Reading Center. In the EWASI, 13 subscales contain three broad categories--consonants, vowels, and word structure. The goal, however, is to…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Budget Impasse Continues in the House of Representatives: Moderates' Push for Additional Domestic Spending Postpones…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Budgets