This report describes the activities and findings of the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP) during fiscal year 1994 with regard to its monitoring and evaluation of academic and residential school programs funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau's overall goals for its monitoring and evaluation program are to ensure compliance…

This project compared the relative physical fitness levels of 30 visually handicapped/blind students (aged 7-18) at a residential school with that of non-handicapped peers, to develop a school-based fitness and nutrition intervention program and determine impact of the intervention. The compounding handicapping nature of fitness deficits and…

Contrast between the appearances and the reality of several aspects of a school environment, including a participative management style, a democratic leadership style, the principal's image as democratic, and attentiveness to student needs is discussed as related to a boarding school in Israel. During an exploratory case study, observations were…

A survey of superintendents of residential schools for the deaf in the United States sought to evaluate perceptions of appropriate goals and planning procedures for effective inservice programs for dormitory counselors. Among other findings, superintendents placed a high value on the use of inservice education to help counselors learn techniques…

Three papers discuss aspects of The Ima Hogg Therapeutic School for emotionally disturbed children. The first paper addresses the school's behavior development and management system, which rewards self management with freedom in physical activity and uses individualized target behaviors designed to increase the child's acceptable social…

Using information collected by the Office of Demographic Studies in its 1977-78 Annual Survey of Hearing Impaired Children and Youth and from a 1974 special studies survey, this study examines the similarities and differences between day and resident students at residential schools for the deaf. The students at residential schools on a day basis…

Emotionally disturbed (ED) children (6- to 12-years-old) attending a Re-Ed school were compared with children whose principals identified them as requiring help for behavioral and emotional problems to determine the effectiveness of Re-Ed schools. The Re-Ed school provided short term residential care to approximately 40 ED children. The program…

Twelve research reviews in this issue pertain to exemplary programs and residential schools, and are organized under these topics: (1) Guidance, including discussion of research reports relating to vocational guidance in secondary schools, a junior high school course in occupational opportunities, student personnel services for area…

The handbook is intended to aid residential schools for deaf children in establishing comprehensive staff development programs. Stressed is the importance of involving all staff members including administrators, teachers, and dormitory counselors in the provision of an integrated 24-hour-a-day learning environment. The handbook is said to be…

The study was undertaken to provide management and program development services for the relocation of the pupils attending a residential school for educable mentally handicapped. The stated goal of the new center (Minnesota Learning Center) is the preparation of residents to assume a community living role independent of the institution. Four…

A group of 135 children with adjustment problems, referred to a semiresidential educational setting, were evaluated using the Children's Nowicki-Strickland Scale of Internal-External Control. Pretest scores were factor-analyzed, revealing two correlated factors: general feelings of helplessness in interpersonal relationships, and general feelings…

The article describes six European approaches to the therapeutic education of behavior disordered children and youth. (Author/DLS)