Graduate Studies in Education. Volume 1, Number 3.

As one part of a volume of abstracts of studies of the last decade primarily in the vocational and technical field, this report includes 213 abstracts in the categories of administration, curriculum, and evaluation. Abstracts in administration treat building programs, certification and qualification requirements, cooperative programs, cost accounting systems, educational costs, financing and trends in adult education, foreign student achievement, graphic report formats, guidelines for administration, historical reports, length of school years, maintenance of equipment, orientation of beginning teachers, policy manuals and handbooks, public relations guidelines, school district expansion, student office aid program, trends, and upgrading teachers. Abstracts in curriculum treat areas of instruction, apprenticeship programs, community surveys, curriculum needs and goals, development and selection of instructional materials, future homemakers of America activities, guides for instruction, industrial arts clubs, problem-solving activities, program advertising and development, programed instruction, proposed curricula and programs, and resource units for specific subject areas. Abstracts in evaluation treat project and program evaluation, evaluation improvement, a tabulated job sheet for grading, rating scales, and pupil-teacher sheets. Other parts of the volume are available as VT 005 123 and VT 005 124. (JK)