Condensation of Chapter XIV of the author's forthcoming book, ISLANDS OF INNOVATION EXPANDING, Beverly Hills : Glencoe Press, 1969

An experiment was conducted at Metropolitan Junior College, Kansas City, to determine (1) if an experimental group of English I students who wrote 24 compositions during one semester would show greater writing improvement than a control group that wrote only eight, and (2) if there would be a difference in reading and vocabulary development…

The League for Innovation in the Community College surveyed representative new developments in league colleges and disseminated the findings. (MS)

A POST-TEST WAS USED TO COMPARE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO METHODS OF TEACHING THE USE OF "WEBSTER'S SEVENTH NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY." STUDENTS IN ONE SECTION OF A READING AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT COURSE WERE GIVEN A PROGRAMED LEARNING SEQUENCE FOR STUDYING DICTIONARY USAGE AND WERE TOLD THAT THEY WOULD BE TESTED PERIODICALLY ON THE…

The study compated two methods of teaching the use of the log-log slide rule in engineering courses, a straight lecture method or a lecture-laboratory method. The lecture method consisted of two separate hours a week with class discussion and demonstration by the instructor. The lecture-laboratory method comprised one hour of lecture and…

AN EXAMINATION OF 29 STUDIES REVEALS A GREAT VARIATION IN THE PROCEDURES AND FINDINGS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS IN JUNIOR COLLEGE CURRICULA AND INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, THE STUDIES USUALLY DID ONE OF FOUR THINGS--(1) CONSIDERED PROGRAMS AT A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS, (2) SUMMARIZED THE RATIONALE AND PROCEDURE OF AN…

A study designed to answer the need for more attractive and effective economics education involved the teaching of one junior college economics class by the conventional (lecture) method and an experimental class by computer simulation techniques. Econometric models approximating the "real world" were computer programed to enable the experimental…

SINCE SOME FORMS OF EXPERIMENTATION ARE NOT ADAPTABLE TO THE TYPICAL COLLEGE OPERATION, A MULTICOLLEGE SYSTEM, IN ADDITION TO ENCOURAGING INNOVATION AND INSTRUCTIONAL RESEARCH, SHOULD CONTAIN ONE EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE. WHILE LOCATED ON ONE OF THE DISTRICT'S CAMPUSES, IT WOULD HAVE ITS OWN FACILITY AND ADMINISTRATIVE INDEPENDENCE. A DISTRICT…

Presents a follow-up report on Alpha, an experimental unit of the College of DuPage in Illinois. Traces the postgraduation activities of Alpha graduates and describes new Alpha programs and projects. (CAM)

TO DETERMINE THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMED AND CONVENTIONAL WORKBOOK METHODS OF TEACHING GRAMMAR, SENTENCE STRUCTURE, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION, PRE- AND POST-TEST SCORES IN FOUR REMEDIAL ENGLISH SECTIONS WERE COMPARED. TWO TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN THE EXPERIMENT, WITH EACH CONDUCTING A WORKBOOK SECTION AND A PROGRAMED SECTION.…

THE ACCEPTED GOAL OF TEACHING IS TO CAUSE LEARNING, AND THE LEARNING SHOULD BE EVIDENT IN THE CHANGED BEHAVIOR OF THE STUDENT. ALTHOUGH IT IS GENERALLY ASSUMED THAT JUNIOR COLLEGES STRESS TEACHING, WHILE THE UNIVERSITY EMPHASIZES RESEARCH, INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF FEW INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS. GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE,…

At Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) an experimental learning resources center and a new curriculum in the social sciences were developed having primary objectives of: (1) keeping more minority-group students in school, (2) reducing their withdrawal rate, (3) developing assessment techniques accommodating inner-city populations, (4)…