Implementing Performance-Based Vocational Education Utilizing V-TECS Catalogs. Instructor's Handbook.

Overview & Synopsis

Intended for use with nine individualized learning modules (CE 017 441-449), this instructor's handbook is designed to assist vocational educators in conducting inservice programs relative to performance-based vocational education utilizing Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) catalogs. Included in this handbook are the following: notes on conducting the program; a suggested program sequence for the nine modules with approximate completion times (one to three hours each); an outline of each module (behavioral objectives, content, and evaluation method); a glossary of terms used in all nine; and copies of evaluation instruments (with answer keys) to be used as the checkout activity for each module. Titles of the nine modules are (1) Performance-Based Vocational Education in South Carolina; (2) Understanding Performance Objectives, Criterion-Referenced Measures and Performance Guides; (3) Selecting, Clustering and Sequencing Performance Objectives and Supplemental Objectives; (4) Developing a Delivery System; (5) Individualizing Performance-Based Vocational Education; (6) Evaluating Students on Performance-Based Vocational Education Programs; (7) Designing Modules for Self-Pacing; (8) Managing Self-Paced Instruction; and (9) Using V-TECS Catalogs in Contemporary Programs to Make Them Performance-Based. (JH)