The purpose of the current program was to establish an upward mobility program that afforded employees an opportunity to improve their credibility in job opportunity selection under the directives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Author/RK)

Described the contribution of a preschool treatment program for multiply handicapped children and how the approach may be adopted by others. (Editor/RK)

A general overview of the South Carolina distributive education program is given in this handbook for high school juniors and seniors training for careers in marketing and distribution. Following a brief discussion about the concept of distributive education, the three areas of the program are summarized: (1) the classroom; (2) on-the-job training…

This article classifies traditional drug education approaches into seven styles and two modes. The author is critical of each style, but presents his model for the use of administrators and drug educators. A review is presented of some studies which are critical to the factual approach to drug education. (Author/BW)

Designed to serve as a reference and source of ideas on the use of slides in combination with audiocassettes for presentation design, this book of readings from Audiovisual Instruction magazine includes three papers providing basic tips on putting together a presentation, five articles describing techniques for improving the visual images, five…

THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE RULEG PROGRAM SYSTEM, WHICH IS BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT THE VERBAL STATEMENTS OF A PROGRAM CAN BE CLASSIFIED INTO "RU'S" (RULES) AND "EG'S" (EXAMPLES). ALL RU'S ARE STATEMENTS OF SOME GENERALITY, FROM WHICH SUBSTITUTION INSTANCES, OR EG'S, CAN BE OBTAINED. 12 STEPS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RULEG PROGRAMS ARE…

THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES THE FOLLOWING TOPICS IN CONSTRUCTION OF A PROGRAM, AND GIVES EXAMPLES OF RELEVANT SEQUENCES--DEFINING THE FIELD, REINFORCEMENT, GRADUAL PROGRESSION TO ESTABLISH COMPLEX REPERTOIRES, EMITTED BEHAVIOR AND PROMPTING, FADING AND VANISHING, CONFIRMATION AND SCORING, OBSERVING BEHAVIOR, PRACTICE AND REVIEW, UNDERSTANDING AND…

This booklet is the first in a series of eight that describe the tenth-cycle Lincoln, Nebraska, Teacher Corps Project, located at Goodrich Junior High School under the joint sponsorship of the Lincoln Public Schools and the Teachers College of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The three goals of the competency-based preservice and inservice…

Prior experience with Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs has provided evidence that school districts are implementing supplementary programs funded by Title I which are separate and distinct from the base education programs. The focus of this study is on the relationship between the Title I supplementary programs and the base…

This document, comprised of three major sections, is designed to aid individuals and groups in instituting field-experience education programs. Section 1 details the step-by-step procedures for designing a nontraditional program. Section 2 details the process of developing, selecting, monitoring, and evaluating internship experience. In these two…

This paper contains the criteria for validating the technical and sociopsychological validity of the Georgia model for the preparation of elementary school teachers. The criteria, regarded as essential features for the effective operation of the model program, were developed during the planning activities preceding the funding of the project…

This report describes a 1-year project for the initial development and implementation of a competency-based teacher education program. The project was part of a fifth-cycle Teacher Corps program. Project activities were directed toward planning, faculty development, assessment of changes in attitudes and program structures, and facilitation of…

This annotated bibliography contains 22 listings on the design and evaluation of college courses, including five on objectives, two on the evaluation of learning and instruction, four on innovative teaching methods, six on instructional design, and five on research design and educational experimentation. The bibliography is not meant to be…