Project DIII.1
National Consortium for Product Quality in Vocational Education

Project Directors:

• Barbara Dougherty and Margaret Ellibee, University of Wisconsin (Year 3 of 5)

Keywords:

• curriculum standards
• exemplary curriculum

During 1995, the NCPQVE will continue to move forward in accomplishing three key objectives: (1) demonstrate, evaluate, and refine (if necessary) standards for quality curriculum products designed for secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs; (2) disseminate those standards to the field; and (3) identify, review, and disseminate information on quality products. To date, the project has established initial content and pedagogy standards for vocational education from which quality curriculum products can emerge.

Deliverables

The deliverables available within the third year of the project include the following:

1. Activities
   • Individual Presentations--AVA, Midwest Leadership Conference, NNCCVTE Concurrent National Meeting, VIMS, [Vocational Instructional Materials Section], AVERA, and upcoming School-to-Work conferences.
   • Inservice Activities--As requested by local school administrators and state staff, but will be dictated by budget and time constraints.
2. Audiovisual/Nonprint Materials--The NCPQVE Curriculum Review Instrument adapted to software for reviewer use.
3. Information Analysis--Update of the literature review included in the Curriculum Quality Standards for Vocational Education: A Guidebook, as well as the Annotated Bibliography on research related to the design, development, and implementation of curricula standards.
4. Product Profiles--Highly rated curriculum products.
5. Newsletters--At lease one issue of NCPQVE Standard Times.
6. Adaptation for practitioners of the Curriculum Quality Standards for Vocational Education: A Guidebook.
7. Evaluation Instruments--Curriculum review instrument, product implementation assessment, and evaluation form of the Curriculum Quality Standards for Vocational Education: A Guidebook; Train-the-Trainer Packet Evaluation.
8. Train-the-Trainer Materials--Packet.

Project information dissemination will initially occur through the proposed newsletter(s) to solicit product reviewers and products for the field-test process. Articles will be submitted to a variety of professional newsletters describing the developmental process for establishing the standards and the certification process. An AVA preconference workshop is anticipated. Product profiles of products receiving a Phase II Review will be prepared for inclusion in the project newsletters and in a separate report following the field-test outcomes. The Guidebook will be disseminated by the NCRVE. The NCPQVE Train-the-Trainer Packet will be disseminated through the project due to continuous field-testing.

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