The overall purpose of the study was to identify relationships between perceptions of vocational female faculty and vocational administrators in four types of vocational institutions: area vocational school, community college, comprehensive high school, and postsecondary proprietary school. Data was obtained from 1,404 vocational female faculty…

The findings reported and discussed in the document are part of a larger study concerning female vocational faculty members in several types of educational institutions. The third of four substudies, the research report deals with female faculty in randomly selected postsecondary proprietary schools. The study identifies the perceptions of female…

Component aspects of Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs (PLAN), a systems approach to individualized education on the elementary and secondary school levels, are discussed. PLAN, which has been in operation in twelve selected school districts in California and in the northeastern U.S. since 1966, focuses on assisting the individual to…

Research reported here deals with 5,800 Georgia high school students' racial attitudes. Data were collected using a paper and pencil survey instrument administered to blacks and whites in 28 schools. A total of 21 independent variables were selected through an extensive literature search and used in the analysis. These were grouped into four…

Recounts an experiment where two groups of college students composed questions for a simulated quiz show and then answered each other's questions. They then answered questions comparing their performance with other groups. Proposes a social norm rather than attribution error explanation for the fact that groups consistently will underestimate…

The paper presents 45 questions teachers have about education of Alaska Native students, and answers to those questions. Teachers are cautioned to avoid assuming that White, middle-class society and Standard English are the only acceptable standards, to be aware of differences in culture and values between Native groups and between Natives and…

A weekly professional development seminar, designed to help University of Alaska education professors (four White, one Alaska Native) become more culturally sensitive in multicultural classrooms and discover ways teaching may construct barriers to participation by Alaska Native students, was supplemented by videotapes of participants' teaching…

The conference reported here was held for nurse faculty and physicians from twenty-five family nurse practitioner (FNP) programs based in twenty-one states to provide the participants with an opportunity to consider their common curriculum problems and successes in FNP education. The first half of this booklet contains five paper presentations…

Proceedings of the 1981 International Women Student Conference, which disseminated information about the unique needs of international women students, are presented. Contents include the following: "The Role of the Educated Woman: Views from North Africa and the Middle East," Leila Fawaz; "The Role of Educated Women in…

Handicapped children of cultural and linguistic groups different from those of the majority culture are presently unable to attain an appropriate education. Bilingual/multicultural exceptional children are overrepresented in special education classes in comparison to their percentage of the total population, as a result of biased assessment…

Instructional and assessment activities in language arts are presented in this teacher's guide to unit two of a Spanish language arts curriculum for first graders. Focus, objective, and materials for each activity are given in English and Spanish, with teacher instructions only in Spanish. Four small picture books for students (brief Spanish…

This paper describes a simulation game, "Hacienda," designed to replicate the economic and social realities of the peasants' situation in rural Ecuador. The game involves three to 15 players (and often more), one of whom, by a roll of the dice, takes the role of "hacendado," or hacienda owner, who gains title to all the…

The study reported here describes the development and testing of a curriculum model to extend the role of public health nurses into community nurse practitioners (CNP). The content is presented in six chapters. The first chapter overviews the conceptual framework for the CNP role and then describes the three-course sequence comprising the CNP…

AGE-INTEGRATED CLASSES IN A CONTINUATION SCHOOL WERE STUDIED TO FIND THE RESULTING MORAL, SOCIAL, AND ACADEMIC EFFECTS. IT WAS ASSUMED THAT MEANINGFUL CROSS-AGE RELATIONS WOULD OCCUR WITH STATUS EQUALITY, INVOLVEMENT IN THE SAME EDUCATIONAL TASKS, A ONE-TO-ONE AGE RATIO, AND SIMILAR BACKGROUNDS AND ABILITY LEVELS. MOST OF THE ADOLESCENTS HAD BEEN…

THIS APPENDIX TO VT 004 417 INCLUDES (1) A TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE, WHICH DEFINES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE EDUCATIONAL CHANGE PROCESS AND PRESENTS THEM IN CHART FORM, (2) PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE (PERT) GENERAL INFORMATION AND MASTER SCHEDULE REPORTS, WHICH DEFINES TERMS AND EXPLAINS AND ILLUSTRATES A WORK-BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE,…