Focus in this preventive medicine monograph for health professionals is on consumer health education and the current and potential effects of mass communication on the quality of medical care. Following an introduction, the content is presented in four chapters. Chapter 1 covers the state of the art in consumer health education and discusses three…

This handbook is designed to serve as a tool to assist school and agency staff in implementing the Career Information System (CIS), a model interagency consortium designed to provide means of direct access to current career and labor market information, based in Oregon. The first section of the handbook discusses what is known about CIS and…

Clustered Business Occupations Reading Strategies is one of four instructional guides developed to assist teachers working with students considered disadvantaged because of reading deficiency. Section 1 concerns readability and gives procedures and guidelines for collecting samples. Section 2 briefly describes the Cloze procedure and its…

This Exemplary Activities Handbook for junior high is one of nine booklets that organize career education activities around subject matter areas. (There is one booklet each for grades K-6, one for grades 7-9, and one for grades 10-12.) The booklet is organized around these subject matter areas: English, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Guidance,…

Designed to investigate the relationship between student and teacher attitudes concerning the study of mathematics and attitudes toward scientific and technical careers by sex and to provide inservice training in eliminating sex role stereotyping in the teaching of mathematics, a research project assessed students' mathematics achievement and…

These Project TEAMS (Techniques and Education for Achieving Management Skills) instructional materials consist of five units for use in training public administrators. Unit 1 contains materials designed to help public administrators increase their management skills in the areas of leadership, management theories, time management, stress…

Surveys of local employers were conducted by Johnson County Community College to determine the needs for potential career programs as related to job opportunities in the following areas: (1) accounting; (2) advertising and journalism; (3) animal health technology; (4) automotive technology; (5) building construction; (6) child care for…

The history of the United States is one of the contradictory traditions of human rights and intolerance. Although human rights, diversity, and dissidence are inherent concepts in our constitution and in the Supreme Court system, this tendency has been invariably accompanied by intolerant uses of power. The Salem witchcraft trials, the Alien and…

Over 130 citations of books, journals, government publications, and newspapers dealing with education in Egypt are included in this annotated bibliography. Materials cited were published in 1977. Sixty-two alphabetically arranged categories cover such topics as agricultural schools, Arabic language, basic education, child care, curricula,…

The relationship between moral development and cultural and educational background is examined. Approximately 120 Israeli youth representing different social classes, sex, religious affiliation, and educational experience were interviewed. The youth interviewed included urban middle and lower class students, Kibbutz-born, Youth Aliyah…

Activities and programs of the Institute for Research and Development in Occupational Education (IRDOE) are reviewed in this annual report for fiscal year 1980. The report describe twenty-three contract projects, an increase from nine the preceding year. Three projects related to handicapped populations, two projects involved staff development and…

The book briefly describes several hundred instructional methods from the Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System (SER-LARS), which are intended for use in developing and carrying out individualized programs for handicapped children. Each teaching method includes an accession number; title; author; source; teacher tasks;…

The book briefly describes several hundred instructional methods from the Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System (SER LARS), which are intended for use in developing and carrying out individualized programs for handicapped children. Each teaching method includes an accession number; title; author; source; teacher tasks;…

The book briefly describes several hundred instructional methods from the Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System (SER-LARS), which are intended for use in developing and carrying out individualized programs for handicapped children. Each teaching method includes an accession number; title; author; source; teacher tasks;…

This guide describes a program designed to assist local school leaders in developing a career exploration program for grades 7-9. It is designed for implementation in the classroom structure and curriculum and is divided into seven sections: Introduction, Teacher Training, Career Resource Information Bank (CRIB), Field Trips, Positive Action,…