Boston University's (BU) CityLab program was created in 1991 as a partnership between faculty members of BU's School of Medicine and School of Education in response to the first call for proposals under the Science Education Partnership Awards initiative of the National Institutes of Health. CityLab's founders recognized the need for CityLab, a…

The feedback from former students, the enthusiasm of the present students, and the favorable administrative atmosphere make mobile office education a program which will definitely expand in the future. (Author)

Because it was financially impossible to put a microcomputer center at each of nine Chapter I-funded elementary schools in the Modesto (California) City Schools, a remodeled school bus was converted into a mobile computing center. Objectives of the "Compubus" program and evaluation of the first year are discussed. (JN)

A discussion of portable classrooms in California includes statements on the extent of their use, the reasons for their purchase, public attitudes toward them, some possible limitations, and the policy regarding their use. The paper concludes that before policy implementations are imposed on portable classrooms, a new survey must be undertaken…

This study's purpose was to develop and evaluate programs based on psycholinguistic theory for rural black disadvantaged 4-year-olds. The treatment conditions, administered in mobile labs, were (1) a 9-month general enrichment curriculum, GE (N=8 comparatively advantaged white children), (2) a 3-month structured Peabody curriculum, P3 (N=8…

This conference proceedings report contains abstracts of seven 1977-78 Virginia Adult Basic Education (ABE) projects presented at a dissemination conference for ABE administrators and teachers. The abstracts vary in length (two to seven pages) and format and focus on program objectives, procedures or strategies, expected results, findings,…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year project (1970-73) to provide vocational evaluation in a mobile unit for the 330 intellectually limited students in grade 10 special classes in the Baltimore County schools. Main project aims are given to be evaluation at home schools and subsequent development of recommendations for using school and…

There is a great need for adult basic education in Appalachia Mississippi. The Itawamba Junior College (IJC) Vocational and Technical Adult Education Department is presently meeting the needs of a small majority of the adults who need additional education. In an agreement with Town and Country Mobile Homes manufacturers, the Mississippi State…

The theory underlying the measurement of intellectual growth by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and its congruence with the objectives of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) Early Childhood Education Program is explored. The PPVT was administered to a sample of 160 3- and 4-year-old children in three treatment groups: (1)…

The annual report and evaluation discusses education of the 2,929 migrant children who participated in Oregon's 1967-68 program (including students in both public and nonpublic schools). The report cites innovative projects implemented to meet the needs of students in the program. Among the projects described are the Migralab, a mobile van…

Described are six career education programs for handicapped youth selected as examplary because of elements worthy of further study or replication. Presented in the form of case studies, each program is examined in terms of program operations, notable features, people, evaluation, recommendations, and informational sources. Described are the…

Designed for 3- and 4-year-old disadvantaged children and their parents, a mobile unit consisting of a renovated school bus turned classroom is described which travels to three areas daily for a 2-hour period. The program for children is designed primarily for developmental skills--visual, sensory, auditory, and cognitive. Activities emphasize…

Three police training programs varied markedly and present a selection of models appropriate to different circumstances and training needs. The New Jersey Police Training Commission provides for supervisory training through the use of mobile classrooms staffed with trained professional teams, equipped with modern teaching aids, and experimenting…

The Classroom on Wheels was an experimental program involving a series of trips by Junior High School Students to places of interest in the city. Randomly selected groups of students were tested before and after to evaluate the program's effectiveness in terms of pre-program objectives. These including helping students to increase their liking for…

This report on the use of mobile facilities in preschool instruction programs is divided into four parts. Part I describes the three major mobile preschool instruction programs. The Appalachia Preschool Program and Southeastern Education Laboratory's Readimobile Program are being field tested as possible strategies for the delivery of…